Recruiting

Hiring companies get to know our students in a variety of ways:

-recruiting events

-interviews

-corporate visits

-networking sessions

-educational presentations with student clubs, to name a few.

When you're a student here, you have lots of opportunities.

With the help of our Career Management Center (the CMC), you'll be ready to seize on these chances as they arise, be it through a connection you make or a job posting you see. As partners in your career search, we teach you the key tools you needs: from how to research a desired company or industry to the best way to market yourself, ace an interview, or negotiate a salary.

The CMC also offers comprehensive support for students pursuing an internship between their first and second years. Many students find that internships are a great way to gain experience in a new, desired industry or work function and to set themselves up to thrive when they finish at Columbia.

Every fall and January, Uris Hall is transformed for On-Campus Recruiting season for full-time and internship positions, respectively. You'll see many employers conducting interviews right on campus, MBA students swap their cluster tee-shirts for business suits, and all the training and resources the CMC has offered you in the previous months starts to pay off once you step into that interview room.

Throughout the year, the CMC also supports students in the enterprise job search — people pursuing industries and functions that do not use On-Campus Recruiting and requires students to proactively seek out full-time or internship positions. As this type of recruiting ramps up in the spring term, the CMC creates structure for a typically unstructured search process through weekly meetings, one-on-one advising, alumni panels, and career skills workshops.

Facts & Figures: Class of 2020

90%

received a job offer within three months of graduation

$150,000

median base salary

38%

women

72%

of opportunities were school-facilitated

42%

non-U.S. citizens

2020 Placement Outside the U.S.

Asia: 35.4%

Europe: 28.1%

Middle East: 17.7%

Central & South America: 11.5%

Other: 7.3%