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THE CAMBRIDGE MBA

EMPLOYMENT REPORT
2023

REPORTING THE OUTCOMES OF

THE CLASS OF 2021/2022
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CLASS OF 2021/2022
SUMMARY DATA

Our graduates use their MBA

experience to take their career
in new and exciting directions.
Some move function or industry,
and others use their MBA to
accelerate to more senior roles
or access a new location.

Companies employing the most

Cambridge MBAs:
McKinsey & Company; Amazon;
Bain & Company; Citi
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Graduates with job offers three months out

94%
Employed three months out

94%
Number of countries where jobs have been taken

24
Students switching country, function or industry

97%
Students switching industry sector

86%
Students switching job function

72%
Students switching country

68%
Students switching all three

42%
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Post-MBA salary
Average base salary1

£75,198
$120,233
Average package1

£92,501
$149,634

T he Careers team helped me

reach out and introduced me.
Being part of the Cambridge
ecosystem definitely helped
open a lot of doors.
Jorge Velasco | UK, Duffel

USD as converted using purchasing power parity (PPP)

1
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POST-MBA
SALARY AND
EMPLOYMENT
Post-MBA job function Post-MBA sector employment

Business Development 3% Consulting 29%

Consultant 33% Finance 30%
Corporate planning | Strategy 7% Public sector | NGO | Other 4%
Finance 23% Industry – Internet | eCommerce 8%
General Management 4% Industry – Technology 10%
Marketing | Sales 6% Industry – Consumer Products | FMCG 6%
Operations 6% Industry – Other 13%
Other 5%
Product Management 5%
ESG/CSR Management 3%
Programme Management 2%
Project Management 3%
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Switched country

68%
Of those who switched, switched to the UK

80%
Returned to pre-MBA country

32%

I was looking to relocate and

start to build and develop an
international career.
Mary Rasita | UK, Microsoft
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POST-MBA
WHERE STUDENTS ARE
WORKING NOW

United Kingdom 64% Middle East & North Africa 1%

East Asia 9% South Asia 2%
South-East Asia 8% Latin America & Caribbean 3%
Europe (excl. UK) 6%
North America 7%
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CLASS OF 2021/2022
RECRUITERS
These are the companies who have employed students from the
MBA 2021 class. Companies who have employed more than one
student are in bold.
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ADM Envestors Plan A
Advencap European Bank for Reconstruction Planet A
Akaria Natural Capital and Development Plural Strategy
Alpha FMC EY-Parthenon Pollination Group
Alvarez & Marsal Falabella Inmobiliario PwC
Amazon Finalyse RMI
Amazon Web Services Floww Royal Bank of Canada
Arcane Group Foresight Canada Sagentia Innovation
ArcOn Brands Fusion Fund Sea Spectrum Co., Ltd.
Bain & Company Global Brain Sendwave
Bangkok Bank Grant Thornton Shenzhen Kaifeng Investment
Bank of America Greystar Company
Baringa IBM Siemens
Blank Street Icecube Investment Management Silicon Valley Defense Group
Blenheim Chalcot Ichigo Asset Management SMT GB
Bloomberg IFC SNB Capital
Blue Earth Capital Infosys Squarepoint Capital
BNP Paribas IT Labs Strategy&
Booking.com Jaguar Land Rover Tata Steel
British International Investment JPMorgan Chase & Co. Telstra
British Telecom Kearney The Sandbox
Businessfourzero L.E.K. Consulting TomTom
Calculus Capital Legal and General Investment UBS
Cambridge Centre for Alternative Management Victory Hill Capital Partners
Finance LHH Wayfair
Candesic Libi & Daughters World Rugby
Canonical McKinsey & Company Wunderman Thompson
Chanel Metyis Yili Group
China International Capital Microchip Technology YooX Net-a-Porter Group
Corporation Microsoft ZS Associates
China Resources Capital Mizuho International
chnnl Moove
Citi Moshi
Coconala Munich Re
Coda Payments Nederman Group
Coeus Consulting Oliver Wyman
Conagra Brands Opvia
Daraz PepsiCo
Diageo Pexapark
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