Good news - our MBA graduates are getting jobs!

My return trip from Baltimore went beautifully on Saturday. I had no difficulties whatsoever. I was out of the office yesterday, recovering from the trip, enjoying my kids, and celebrating my 18th wedding anniversary. I am back in the office today and frantically working through emails and seeing students. Being away is great, but it is so hard to get caught back up again.

I wanted to share with you the latest data from the Walton Career Development Center.

• At graduation, the MBA class of 2009 had a placement percentage of 72%-up from 68% last year.
• 80% were employed one month post graduation.
• When compared to students’ original salaries upon entry into the MBA program, the class average increase in salary, of employed students at graduation, is $28,218 – 84% average increase in salary.

When you are choosing your MBA program, placement is extremely important. Here is further evidence that a Walton MBA is a wise investment:

CAREER FAIR ATTENDEES
· ABF Freight System, Inc.
· Acosta Sales and Marketing
· Acxiom
· Aetna
· Arkansas Blue Cross & Blue Shield
· Arkansas Department of Information Systems
· Arkansas State Bank Department
· Arvest Bank
· AT&T Mobility
· Baldor
· Becker CPA Review
· BNSF Logistics / BNSF Railway
· BOSC, Inc.
· Bridgestone/Firestone
· Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals
· BTX Air
· Buckle, Inc.
· C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc.
· Campbell Soup Company
· Carlton-Bates
· CaseStack, Inc.
· CED
· Cherokee Nation Enterprises
· Cintas Corp.
· Colgate - Palmolive
· ConAgra Foods
· ConocoPhillips
· CROSSMARK
· Data-Tronics Corp.
· Defense Contract Audit Agency
· Deloitte Consulting
· Deltic Timber Corporation
· Dillard's
· Dillard's - Fayetteville
· Eli Lilly & Co
· Enterprise Rent-A-Car
· Epes Carriers, Inc.
· Fairkeep Products
· Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
· FedEx Freight
· Firestone Complete Autocare
· Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
· GDH Consulting
· General Mills
· Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
· Hallmark
· Hershey Company
· Hilti, Inc.
· Internal Revenue Service
· International Paper Company
· J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc.
· JCPenney
· Johnson and Johnson
· Kellogg Company
· Kimberly-Clark
· Knight Transportation
· LinkAmerica Corporation
· Lowe's
· Marine Corps Officer Selection
· Marshalltown Tools
· Marten Transport Ltd.
· Maverick Transportation, LLC
· Melton Truck Lines
· Mission Data International
· Murphy Oil
· Nebraska Book Company
· Nestle Purina PetCare
· Nestle USA
· Nielsen Company
· Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
· Nucor-Yamato Steel
· Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
· Pepsi
· Rockfish Interactive
· Saatchi & Saatchi X
· Sam's Club
· Sears Holdings Corporation
· Sherwin-Williams
· Southeastern Freight Lines
· Southwestern Energy Company
· State Farm Insurance
· Target Distribution
· Target Stores
· Teradata
· Thrivent Financial
· Tower Loan
· Transplace
· Tyson Foods, Inc.
· U of A Operations Management Program
· U.S. Border Patrol
· Unilever
· University Directories
· University of Arkansas at Little Rock
· USA Truck, Inc.
· Walgreens
· Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
· Walton College Graduate School of Business
· Webster University
· Wells Fargo Financial
· WESCO Distribution, Inc.
· Wyeth Consumer Healthcare

ON-CAMPUS INTERVIEWS
Fall 2008
· Nucor-Yamato Steel
· Wal-Mart
· Beall Barclay
· Goodyear
· Tyson
· Colgate Palmolive
· C.H. Robinson Worldwide
· Ernst & Young
· Nestle Purina
· Deloitte
· Kimberly Clark
· BKD
· MBA Mock Interview
· Data-Tronics
· Conoco Phillips
· Hilti
· JPMS
· Pepsi
· Office of the Comptroller of Currency
· M.S. Frost
· PriceWaterhouseCoopers
· ABF Freight
· Erwin & Co
· ABF-Econ
· Saatchi
· Walgreens
· Sherwin Williams
· Grant Thornton
· KPMG
· Stephens
· Rubbermaid
· Hallmark
· The Nielsen Company
· Rubbermaid
· Crane Worldwide Logistics
· Sears Holding
· General Mills
· Wal-Mart-Meghan
· Windstream
· AT&T Mobility
· International Paper
· Wal-Mart Internal Audit
· J.B. Hunt
· NPD
· Enterprise
· S.F. Fiser
· Acxiom
· Cintas
· CED
· Target
· FedEX Freight
· Transplace
· Chainalytics

Spring 2009
· Dial Corp
· Hershey
· Tyson
· Saatchi & Saatchi X
· Land O'Lakes
· Applied Sustainability Center
· Hersheys
· Dannon
· Crane
· U.S. Marine Corp
· Southwestern Energy
· AT&T Mobility
· University Directories
· Southwestern Energy
· Dial
· Wal-Mart-Megan Howard
· Target Stores
· ISNetworld
· Graduate School of Business
· Nestle USA
· ABF Freight
· Hewlett Packard
· State Farm
· Sherwin Williams
· Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
· Sears Holding
· CED
· Acosta
· JB Hunt
· Grant Thornton
· Procter & Gamble
· BKD
· Defense Contract Audit Agency
· JB Hunt
· Kellogg
· Belford Group
· Frito-Lay
· Transplace
· Colgate-Palmolive

Final application deadline for the Walton MBA is September 15. Very few assistantships are left. While other programs are struggling to place their MBA graduates, Walton College is succeeding.