2021 MSBA Placement Statistics
- 143
- Started the program in fall 2019
- 4
- Did not seek employment: continued education, served in military, took over family business, started company
- 139
- Sought employment
- 133
- For whom employment status is known
- 129
- Received offers of employment
- 97%
- Placed as of today; expected to climb to 100% shortly
Alibaba (7), ByteDance (6), IBM (6), Tencent (5), Deloitte (3), McKinsey & Company (3), Meituan (3), Amazon (2), Apple (2), EXL Service (3), Goldman Sachs (2), IQVIA (2), JPMorgan (2), PayPal (2)
Technology, Telecommunications, Internet (37%)
- Companies
- Abelian Technology, Alibaba, Amazon, Ant Financial Group, Apple, ByteDance, Cisco Systems, Didi, EverQuote, Flywheel Technologies Klaviyo, Meituan, Moro, MongoDB, NetEase, PayPal, Shopee, Tencent, TikTok, Uber
- Roles
- Algorithm Engineer, Analytics Consultant, Analytics Specialist, Business Analyst, Business Intelligence Engineer, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Mining Engineer, Data Scientist, Data Strategist - Sales, Decision Scientist, Director of Operations, Machine Learning Engineer, Product Manager, Quantitative Analyst, Risk Manager, Sales Data Strategy, Software Engineer
Financial Services (27%)
- Companies
- Affirm, American Express, Anxin Securities, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays, Biz2Credit, BlackRock, Black Knight, Capital One, China Minsheng Bank, CICC, CITIC Securities, Citadel, Discover, Fullgoal Fund Management Company, Goldman Sachs, Haitong Securities, HSBC, JPMorgan, Kasikornbank, KPMG, MX, Mastercard, Northeast Securities, Quicken Loans, Sender & Company, ViaBill, Wells Fargo, West Creek
- Roles
- Associate - Quantitative Strategy & Modeling, Chief Data Scientist, Data Scientist, Digital Data Analyst Associate, Data Science Consultant, Finance & Business Management Analyst, Investment Analyst, Model Risk Analyst, Product Data Analyst, Product Manager, Quantitative Analyst, Researcher, Risk Manager, Senior Data Analyst, Senior Data Scientist, Strategy & Operations Associate, Trade Monitoring Analyst
Consulting & Professional Services (19%)
- Companies
- Accelerated Growth, Bain & Company, BCG GAMMA, DAS42, Deloitte, Ekimetrics, EXL Service, IBM, McKinsey, Roland Berger, Strategy&, Tiger Analytics, Verisk, ZS Associates
- Roles
- Analyst, Applied AI Analyst, Associate Analytics Consultant, Associate Consultant, Business Analyst, Consultant, Data Consultant, Data Scientist, Decision Analytics Associate, Cognitive Engineer Consultant, Junior Consultan
Other (7%)
- Companies
- Castleton Commodities International (Oil & Energy), FreshDirect (Food & Beverage), General Motors (Automotive), Guy Carpenter (Insurance), L’Oreal (Cosmetics), Muck Rack (Public Relations & Communications), Pinduoduo (Agro-Tech), ZhongAn (Insurance)
- Roles
- Analyst, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, Data Mining Engineer, Data Scientist
Consumer Goods & Services (4%)
- Companies
- Petco, Shipt, SSG.com, Target
- Roles
- Data Analyst, Data Scientist, Senior Data Scientist
Health Care (3%)
- Companies
- IQVIA, Takeda
- Roles
- Consultant, Product Manager - AI
Locations
- 57%
- United States: 44% New York City, 8% Boston, 7% San Francisco, 7% Seattle, and the rest in Armonk (New York), Atlanta, Charlotte (North Carolina), Chicago, Cupertino, DC, Lehi (Utah), Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Riverwoods (Illinois), San Diego, San Jose, Seattle, Stamford (Connecticut)
- 39%
- China
- 1%
- Japan
- 1%
- Russia
- 1%
- South Korea
- 1%
- Thailand
- 88% of previous cohort (pre-pandemic) secured placement in the US, 9% in Asia, and 2% in Europe
US-based Salaries
- Average
- $108,000
- Median
- $110,000
- Range
- $75,000 - $147,000
- Average bonus
- $14,000
Summer Internship Placement
- 69%
- Received a summer internship 66% in the US (81% of previous cohort (pre-pandemic) were in the US)
- 27%
- Did a combination of research and industry projects
- 96%
- Secured one or multiple work streams
After the pandemic hit, the IEOR career team generated 334 summer workstreams (ie, 62 spots for IEOR faculty research, 25 spots for Columbia Business School research, 95 spots for Morgan Stanley Analytics Challenge, and 152 spots for industry projects
Financial Services (34%)
- Companies
- AccrueMe, American Express, APG Asset Management, Bank of America (Hong Kong), Biz2Credit, BlackRock, Bloomberg, Capital One, Castleton Commodities International, Cavanaugh Partners, Citadel, CITIC, Discover, Fosun Capital, Goldman Sachs, Haitong Securities, Haitong Securities Research Institute, Huatai Securities, JPMorgan, LevelHead Capital, Nomura Research Institute, Northeast Securities, PayPal, PIMCO, Sauma Capital, Sender Company & Partners, TrueAccord, VisibleFunds
- Roles
- Analytics Intern, Applied Researcher - Programming & Machine Learning, Data Engineer, Data Scientist, Equity Researcher, Equity Strategy Intern, Private Equity Intern, Project Intern, Quantitative Researcher, Risk Analyst, Senior Analyst, Summer Analyst - Finance & Business Management, Technical Intern - Data Management
Technology, Telecommunications, Internet (27%)
- Companies
- Alibaba, Amazon, Ant Group, Apple, Athena AI, ByteDance, Cisco Meraki, Cisco Systems, Didi, Intuit, Lenovo, Meituan, MindCurrent, NetEase, Populus Group, TechSoup, Tencent, Uber
- Roles
- Algorithm Engineer, Business Analyst, Business Solutions Intern, Data Analyst, Data Engineer, Data Operations Intern, Data Scientist, Launch Analyst, Operations Analyst, People Analytics Intern, Product Manager Intern, Software Development Engineer, Software Engineer - Data Technology, Supply Chain Intern
Other (11%)
- Companies
- AirAsia, Bayer (Health Care), BMW of North America, General Motors, GovTech Singapore, Guy Carpenter (Insurance), NetEase Games (Computer Games), Kiwi Insurance, Muck Rack (Public Relations & Communications), NYC Comptroller’s Office, Orenda (Renewables & Environment), Reonomy (Real Estate Tech), Sumitovant Biopharma, The Buttonwood Tree (Digital Newspaper), Viromodo | Social Solar (Renewables & Environment)
- Roles
- Applied Researcher, Business Analyst, Data Science Intern, Data Scientist, Intern - Financial Reporting with Big Data, Management Trainee, Product Development Finance Intern, Software Engineering Intern
Consulting & Professional Services (19%)
- Companies
- BCG GAMMA, Deloitte, Hapday Group, IBM, Innovation Booster, McKinsey & Company
- Roles
- Analytics & Cognitive Consultant, Cognitive Engineer Consultant, Data Science Consultant, Data Scientist, Strategy Consultant
Consumer Goods & Services (3%)
- Companies
- Levi Strauss & Co, Panasonic, Unilever
- Roles
- Data Engineer, Data Science Intern
Food & Beverage (3%)
- Companies
- FreshDirect, HelloFresh, Mosaic Foods
- Roles
- Data Science Intern, Operations & Analytics Intern, Operations Business Intelligence Intern
AdTech (3%)
- Companies
- Criteo, Moloco, Project X Media
- Roles
- Data Analyst, Data Science Intern, Product Analyst