Thinking about a career change or want to accelerate your current career? The Rice MBA and our Career Development Office (CDO) will give you momentum, with top-quality personal guidance and carefully developed contacts with key employers and alumni.
Rice CDO offers students more time and more opportunities
Each full-time Rice Business student has the opportunity to meet with a career development team member and strategize options during five personalized advising appointments, compared with two appointments per student both at the University of Texas and at Wharton.
The outcomes speak for themselves. The ratio of companies-to-students that hire full-time Rice Business students is greater than at UT or Wharton. This is largely because the CDO staff is focused on rigorous service standards. For Rice MBA students, this focus on career development means there are more advisors per person, as well as frequent company visits to campus because companies actively target Rice for internships and full-time job recruiting, giving students a broad breadth of companies to consider.
And the strategy clearly works. In the class of 2024, 71 percent of students accepted offers through school-facilitated activities, with an average competitive starting salary of $150k. Top Rice Business graduate employers include: Amazon, AT&T, Deloitte Consulting, Bank of America Securities, JP Morgan and ExxonMobil.
Continuous contact with alumni builds a formidable network
To give a closer look at this high-energy career operation, we recently caught up with Jessica Campbell, Executive Director of the Career Development Office. Campbell had stopped in Washington, D.C. on the way home from the Week on Wall Street trek, a program in which Rice Business students meet alumni, recruiters and other business contacts at New York financial institutions. She was in Washington, D.C. to see alumni.
Year-round contact with alumni across the country, Campbell says, is a key strategy in building the formidable professional network for Rice Business graduates. The D.C. alumni Campbell was meeting work at Capital One, a financial services firm that had just finished a trial recruiting run with Rice Business. Campbell wanted to get first-hand feedback on how the trial had gone. Recruiting was so successful, Capital One added Rice Business as a core campus recruiting school.
The recruiting opportunities at Rice are striking not only for their abundance, but also for their variety, says Campbell. Rice Business attracts employers in the fields of
consulting, energy, financial services and technology. Recruiters from healthcare, real estate and telecom companies also frequent campus to meet prospective hires. Regardless of whether the economy is bullish or bearish, Campbell notes, Rice Business ensures its graduates will have a wealth of opportunities.