Career Overview

At BYU you will find the resources you need to build the foundation for a great career. Whether it be résumé help, interview preparation, or networking assistance, counselors in the Business Career Center are ready to help. Smaller graduating class sizes at BYU allow you to take full advantage of our career placement resources. If you take advantage of the career resources available, you will not just be a name here; our career center staff will know who you are and what your goals are, and they will strive to help you to achieve them.

At BYU, your career placement in both an internship and full-time position is of the utmost importance to us. In order to assist with your career placement, the following resources are available:

  • Business Career Center with a full time career placement staff
  • Career Builder—A tool to help you determine which career path is right for you
  • Career Guides—Current MBA students who help you with résumé development, interview preparation, and networking
  • Personal counseling with career center staff
  • Conferences to network with representatives from Fortune 500 companies
  • Release time to travel with peers to meet companies working in an industry of interest

Each year, the BYU MBA program has a record of placing nearly 100 percent of its students in internships and full-time jobs with competitive salaries and bonuses.

The Financial Times ranked the Marriott School's MBA program No. 2 for the highest percentage salary increase of North American schools. These graduates landed jobs paying 157 percent more than their pre-MBA salaries. Good job placement and low tuition cost contribute to a debt pay-off period that Forbes calculates as only 2.2 years—the shortest for graduates anywhere.

BYU MBA students intern and accept full-time offers with some of Fortune's top 500 companies. For a complete list of companies that recruit at BYU, click here.

Internships

The Marriott School encourages all students to add value to their academic education with an internship related to their major. As students receive hands-on work experience within their internship, they are able to assess their interests, gain confidence, and develop professional skills. Many students have found that internships are the best route to full-time employment following graduation. Students participate in an internship during the summer in between their first and second year in the MBA program.