USC Marshall MBA Class of 2024 Employment Report

The University of Southern California Marshall School of Business released its MBA Class of 2024 employment report. This year, 80 percent of the graduating MBAs had full-time employment within three months of graduation. The average base salary for the class reached $144,442, with an average signing bonus of $32,524. 

School-facilitated resources, including summer internships, employer campus recruiting programs (job postings, resume collecting, fairs, on-campus interviews), and alumni faculty and staff referrals, were responsible for 64 percent of hiring. NVIDIA, PepsiCo, Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase, and Bain & Co. were among the dozens of elite global organizations that hired USC Marshall MBAs. 

Industry Placement

Consulting hires once again topped industry choice for USC Marshall MBA graduates at 28 percent. Meanwhile, 19 percent went into tech. The average base salary for consulting jobs was reported at  $167,863, while tech jobs reported a $142,489 average base salary. Thirteen percent of the class were recruited into the financial services industry with a reported average base salary of $148,692. Consumer packaged goods and the media, entertainment, and gaming industries each hired nine percent of the USC Marshall Class of 2024.

Geographic Distribution

Since most MBAs tend to settle in the region of their business school, it’s not surprising that 81 percent of the USC Marshall graduating class stayed in the Western United States, where the average starting base salary was reported at $146,150. The Northeast saw eight percent of the class relocate there. However, salaries were reported at a much higher $155,000. Just three percent landed in the Midwest, where the average base salary was $153,500. The Mid-Atlantic region and Southwest also became home to three percent of the class, and the South one percent, but not enough salary data was reported for those locations.