在２０１２年０５月２３日美國研究生入學管理委員會【The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)】公佈針對全美一百三十六所學校之２０１２年企業管理碩士（MBA）畢業狀況研究，該報告中之學生有效問卷為６２９２份，且針對全球大企業詢問意見，共有１０９６份，以下為整理內容：

企業主部份：
１。企業主對於２０１２年將會雇用新員工，將會以企業管理碩士（MBA）為優先雇用考量對象，其比例將會由１３。４人次提高到１７。４人次。
２。企業主對於美國本土雇員將會由２０１１年年薪９２０００美金提高到，２０１２年薪９４０００美金的水準。
３。全球性企業主對於企業管理碩士（MBA）之薪資，有高達百分之３５的企業以優於一般碩士起薪聘用；亦有百分之５１的企業以較高於一般碩士起薪聘用。
４。企業主對於２０１２年提供給企業管理碩士（MBA）２０１２暑假實習（Internship/Placement）人數較２０１１年高，其比例如下：
Science/Technology - 22.3
Business/Management - 21.2
Nonprofit/Government - 19.1
Finance/Accounting - 17.4
Energy - 14.0
Other - 6.0

迪恩斯美國留學小編小結：
＊2012年最大贏家的學科是BioScien及Computer Science/Technology Science，幾乎達到每３。９個學生就有一個學生得到一個實習的機會
＊2012年變化最大的學科是Finance，雖然Fin/Acc財會是放在一起，不過，會計的實息學生人數確達該分類的７９％，亦即財務投資的學生在２０１２年將會有部份學生較困難的找到實習機會。
＊這也是首次理工科學類組超越商管類組得到較多之實習機會。
＊在報告中沒有出現的狀況是，是否商管應用或是科技管理與應用已經融入到Science/Technology類組去，使得商管類比重下降，這是值得討論的。


企業管理碩士（MBA）畢業生部份：
１。最想進的產業依序是：產品與服務業（２３％）、顧問與諮詢業（２０％）、金融投資銀行產業（１８％）。
２。跟同儕比較：企業管理碩士（MBA）畢業生之薪資為一般大學畢業生的１。３４倍，且高出４００００美金之譜。
３。預期找到工作的時間：平均在２。７～４。６個月內找到工作。

迪恩斯美國留學小編小結：
＊美國留學最多人唸的科目：產品與服務業，意即唸Management/Business/Marketing的人還是佔大宗，因此，GMAT還是美國留學生最大的挑戰。
＊美國留學企業管理碩士薪資：台灣與美國的薪資水準有３～５倍的落差，因此，還原成台幣（依人力資源網站之數據－３。３３４），亦為年薪佰萬起跳或月薪約７１０００。
＊預期找到工作的時間：由於台灣人力資源系統較強，因此，將會有比這個時間更快找到工作。

更多內容與文章，請見美國研究生入學管理委員會【The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)】之2012 MBA Jobs Outlook: Mixed Bag at Best


When the MBA Career Services Council (CSC) reported the results of its Fall 2011 survey in March, the outlook for 2012 MBA hiring was uncertain. Fewer schools reported an increase in on-campus recruiting, most of those that did reported modest ones, and the outlook in financial services and consulting—the two industries on most MBAs'' short list—was cloudy, if not outright grim. But all that appears to be changing. Emphasis on appears.

The Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) on Monday released two reports: one on its 2012 survey of1,096 recruiters at more than 800 companies in 40 countries, the other on its survey of 6,292 business students at 136 schools. Both were conducted in February and March, about six months after the CSC survey.

Not only are more companies hiring MBAs, those that do are hiring more of them—an average of 17.4 per company, up from 13.4 a year earlier, for a year-over-year increase of 30 percent. In the past three years, companies have consistently underestimated the number of MBAs they would hire; if the same is true this year, that figure could easily grow. While companies are hiring more MBAs, the big winners appear to be accounting students; the average number of new hires with graduate accounting degrees is expected nearly to double, from 27.9 to 51.7. The big losers: experienced “direct from industry” hires. In 2011 companies hired 134.5, on average; in 2012, they expect to hire 79.

The news from the student survey is equally encouraging. Overall, 64 percent of Class of 2012 full-time MBA job seekers had offers at the time of the survey, nearly matching the record set in 2001, when 66 percent had offers. Job offers for students in part-time and executive MBA programs are at an all-time high.

Even so, it would be a mistake to assume that everything in B-school land is just peachy. It''s not. Salaries, for one, are stagnant. Globally, only 13 percent of companies told GMAC they plan to increase MBA starting salaries in 2012 above the rate of inflation; 35 percent plan increases that match inflation, and 50 percent plan to hold the line on salaries.

In fact, except for a small surge in 2011, when the expected median salary for new MBA hires at U.S. companies hit $92,000, that figure has been stuck at $90,000 since 2008, according to GMAC data. That means many, perhaps most, MBAs never recovered from the global financial meltdown that year—almost every graduating class since, at least in terms of purchasing power, is demonstrably worse off.

And all those job offers? If you read the GMAC fine print you''ll learn that an awful lot of them were for jobs the MBAs never wanted. What they wanted were jobs in products and services (23 percent), consulting (20 percent), and finance and accounting (18 percent). What they got were job offers in manufacturing (76 percent), health care (70 percent), and technology (70 percent). In GMAC-speak, they experienced “considerable variation between the industries where they preferred to work and the industries where they actually received job offers.” In plain English: They spent a fortune and still had to opt for Plan B.

The MBA is still a degree that employers are willing to pay handsomely for. On average, GMAC says, they pay about $40,000 more than they would for someone with a bachelors degree only (a misleading little statistic, since virtually all students entering an MBA already have at least a few years of work experience). But something is happening to the economics of business schools, something that looks an awful lot like a mass revaluation of the degree. The cost is higher than ever, the financial benefits are beginning to slip, and more MBAs are churned out every year than the world knows what to do with.

I''m not sure where this ends—a robust economic recovery that gives the market for MBA talent a new lease on life, or MBA fry boys working at the local McDonald''s. But it seems as if the degree that was once a golden ticket to a life of material wealth now has more in common with another kind of ticket: the scratch-off kind I can buy at my local bodega.