2025-01-22
10 分钟The Economist. Hello, Mike Bird here, co-host of Money Talks,
our weekly podcast on markets, the economy and business.
Welcome to Editor's Picks.
We've chosen an article from the latest edition of The Economist,
which we very much hope you'll enjoy.
In business,
there is no surer sign of distress than when a firm delays its financial results.
That also appears to be true of business schools.
Around Christmas, and in many cases behind their usual schedules,
America's leading business schools published their equivalent of annual reports,
which include data on the new jobs of graduates from their Master of Business Administration MBA programmes,
typically two-year courses for students with professional experience.
We have crunched the numbers.
At the top 15 business schools,
the share of students in 2024 who sought and accepted a job offer within three months of graduating,
a standard measure of career outcomes fell by six percentage points to 84%.
Compared with the average over the past five years, that share declined by eight points.
Some declines are jaw-dropping.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT,
has a decent claim to be the world's top university.