Time to Degree
The following chart identifies the Time to Degree for students who graduated from the Drucker School between 2014 and 2018.
Program | Number of Graduates | Mean (Years) | Median (Years) |
---|---|---|---|
MBA | 209 | 2.03 | 1.99 |
Financial Engineering | 104 | 1.91 | 1.70 |
Executive MBA | 72 | 3.82 | 3.15 |
Professional MBA | 28 | 2.60 | 2.65 |
Graduation & Attrition Rates
For the students entering the MBA Program from 2008-09 through 2014-15, within three years the graduation rate was 85% and the attrition rate was 10%.
For the students entering the Financial Engineering Program from 2008-09 through 2014-15, within three years the graduation rate was 84% and the attrition rate was 11%.
For the students entering the Executive MBA Program from 2008-09 through 2014-15, within three years the graduation rate was 49% and the attrition rate was 23%.
Job Placement Outcomes
2015–2018
- Total Seeking Jobs: 61 MBA students (39 with permanent work authorization)
- Total Not Seeking Jobs: 81 MBA students (most of these students were company-sponsored and already employed or they were planning to continue their education after the program)
- MBA graduates with jobs offers within 3 months of graduation: 34 out of 61 (56%) with an average salary of $62,828
- 24 of the 34 had permanent work authorization (62%) with an average salary of $65,554
2017–2018
Given our small size, we have few MBA graduates annually who seek and secure employment. The following chart* identifies the median salary for our MBA graduates in comparison to other U.S.-based AACSB accredited institutions who completed the BSQ employment survey and who had 10 or fewer full-time MBA graduates accept employment. The Drucker School is identified by the red bar.
*Schools represented on this chart include Duquesne University, Hofstra University, Colorado State University, Oregon State University, Brandeis University, University of California-Riverside, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (among others)
Employment Advancement
As socially conscious, highly effective leaders, our graduates have thrived around the globe as proud testaments of the Drucker School’s impact.
They are innovative, adaptable, and globally relevant, transforming industries at prestigious organizations like Apple, Netflix, Goldman Sachs, Google, Barclays, the International Monetary Fund, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox – China, and Oxford University.
Our alumni are distinguished not only by their titles, but also by the immeasurable contributions they have made to their organizations and to society as a whole.
A few of our notable success stories include Mark Hatch (MBA, 1995), one of the pioneers of the “maker movement”; Pat Soldano (MBA, 1986), a national expert in family offices; Jared Wasserman (MBA, 2006), Associate Vice President at Nasdaq; and Andrew Casey (MBA, 1996), Vice President of Finance and Business Operations at ServiceNow.
More recent graduates of our programs can be found in equally exciting roles: Irene Wang (MAM, 2017), IT Operations Administrator at Cisco Meraki; De’Jon Glover (MBA, 2015), who works in International Publicity for Paramount Pictures; and Michael J. Van Hartingsveldt (MA in AB, 2016), Junior Collections Management Technician at LACMA.
Alumni Success Features:
- Video: Ray Sheih (MBA, ’18)
- Jeffrey Grock (MBA, ’13)
- Gina Orozo-Mejia (EMBA, ’13)
- Arturo A. Noriega (MBA, ’05) and Daniel J. Healy (MBA, ’11)
- Koji Ogura (EMBA, ’11)
- Tawni Cranz (MBA, ’11)
- Shona Gupta (MBA, ’99)
- Video: Anthony Page (MBA, ’97) and Daniel Vesely (MBA, ’97)
- Saori Casey (MBA, ’95)
- Doug Rauch (EMBA, ’94)
- John Bruns (MBA, ’91)
- Khalid Al-Saad (MBA, ’79; PhD, Management, ’86)