In this in-depth analysis of the MIT Sloan MBA Salary and Placements outcome for the 2025 graduating class by industry, we cover: Consulting, Technology, Finance, Healthcare, Biotech, and Pharma, Energy, and Retail industries.
- Consulting Salary and Placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Demand Spikes for Analytics-led and AI-implementation Roles
- Technology Salary and Placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Recovery without full rebound, shaped by selective AI and platform hiring
- Finance Salary and placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Recovery after Two-year Downtrend
- Healthcare, Biotech, and Pharma Salary and placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Outlier Upward Trend
- Energy Salary and placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Highest Median Base Salary
- Retail/CPG Salary and placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Strong Compensation Declining Representation
Consulting salary and placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Demand Spikes for Analytics-led and AI-implementation Roles
Consulting remained the single largest industry destination for MIT Sloan MBA graduates, employing 32.3% of the Class of 2025, with a median base salary of $190,000, the highest median base across all industries.
Decline in Consulting Offers Relative to 2023-24: Above 2021 Levels
While this represents a marginal decline from the 33–34% range observed in 2022–2023, it remains structurally elevated compared with pre-pandemic levels and confirms consulting as Sloan’s anchor industry.
Evolution of Consulting Roles and IMPACT on MIT Sloan MBA Consulting Placements
The explanation lies in how consulting demand evolved between Q3 2024 and Q2 2025. Global consulting firms experienced uneven demand for traditional growth strategy projects but saw sustained and growing demand for AI implementation, advanced analytics deployment, supply-chain optimisation, cost restructuring, and post-merger integration. These engagements required consultants who could work fluently with data, technology teams, and operating leaders, a profile closely aligned with the Sloan MBA graduates’ skill sets.
Management Consulting vs. Strategy Consulting: MIT Sloan MBA vs. Harvard MBA vs. Stanford MBA
MIT Sloan’s consulting outcomes differ subtly from peers like Harvard or Stanford.
Sloan sends a higher proportion of graduates into implementation-heavy, analytics-driven consulting roles, over pure strategy tracks that require regular interaction with CXOs.
The engagements MIT Sloan MBA graduates lead are with middle management and technology teams, working on a bottom-up delivery of transformation projects. This niche skill set explains why consulting remained resilient at Sloan even as some peer schools experienced sharper declines in consulting share during the same period.
Technology Salary and Placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Recovery without full rebound, shaped by selective AI and platform hiring
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Technology roles accounted for 23.3% of placements, with a median base salary of $165,000, a meaningful recovery from the 16–17% trough recorded in 2023, when layoffs across big tech sharply reduced MBA hiring. However, it remains below the ~26–27% peak seen in 2021–2022, indicating that the rebound was partial.
The change in hiring patterns mirrors broader technology-sector dynamics during Q3 2024–Q2 2025.
While capital expenditure in AI infrastructure, cloud services, and semiconductors surged, hiring remained concentrated in narrow, high-impact roles. Firms reduced hiring for traditional project management, operations, and legacy product roles, while increasing demand for AI product strategy, platform strategy, enterprise go-to-market, and technical business leadership.
MIT Sloan MBA Candidates Benefited: Technology, Data and Business Orientation
MIT Sloan graduates benefited from a selective hiring environment due to their positioning at the intersection of technology, data, and business decision-making. The gap in salary with Consulting roles clearly pushed technologists to pursue consulting roles in AI integration and Product Strategy, where implementation experience was valued.
This competition between the Technology industry and Consulting Industry will find its winner in 2026-27, when the earlier momentum from the AI investment boom will plateau in favor of realistic ROIs.
MIT Sloan MBA Salary and Placements in Technology and Consulting will be a key data point to measure where the investments are heading.
Finance Salary and placements at MIT Sloan MBA: Recovery after Two-year Downtrend
Finance employed 20.6% of the Class of 2025, with a median base salary of $175,000, marking a recovery from sub-20% levels in 2023 and reversing a two-year softening trend. However, this headline figure masks substantial divergence across finance sub-industries, which must be examined individually.
Investment Management / Hedge Funds at MIT Sloan MBA: Largest Share of Recruitment in Finance
Investment management and hedge funds accounted for 4.5% of hires, offering a median base salary of $165,000. Hiring in this segment improved modestly compared with 2023, driven by renewed interest in alternative asset classes and AI-assisted investment decision-making during late 2024 and early 2025.
Funds expanded cautiously, hiring fewer MBAs but favouring candidates with strong quantitative intuition, data interpretation skills, and sector specialization, areas where MIT Sloan has historically performed well.
Compensation growth remained muted at the base level, but upside compensation varied significantly by fund and strategy.
Investment Banking at MIT Sloan MBA: Second Most Popular Sub-Segment at MIT Sloan MBA
Investment banking hired 3.6% of the class, with a median base salary of $175,000, a modest recovery from the lows of 2023, when deal activity was severely constrained. During Q4 2024 and Q1 2025, select pockets of M&A activity returned, particularly in technology, energy, and infrastructure, allowing banks to reopen MBA hiring pipelines.
However, hiring remained well below pre-2021 norms, reflecting banks’ continued caution and focus on leaner staffing models where schools with strong legacy in Investment Banking (NYU Stern, Columbia, Cornell) were prioritized.
For MIT Sloan, investment banking remains a secondary finance pathway, consistent with its long-term orientation toward asset management, analytics-driven finance, and technology-linked investing.
Private Equity at MIT Sloan MBA: Stagnant Compensation But Relatively Strong & Competitive Representation
Private equity roles accounted for 3.1% of placements, with a median base salary of $182,500. This figure remained largely flat compared with recent cohorts, but compared to peer schools, PE compensation is one of the strongest. The ongoing constraints in PE hiring caused by slower exit markets, extended holding periods, and fundraising pressure throughout 2024 influenced the salary growth for PE specialists at MIT Sloan.
Firms continued recruiting selectively for roles tied to portfolio operations, data-driven value creation, and sector-focused investing, particularly in technology, healthcare services, and infrastructure.
Sloan MBA graduates who secured PE roles typically entered lean teams with high performance expectations, explaining why compensation remained competitive despite no noticeable growth in hiring volume.
Venture Capital at MIT Sloan MBA: Small share, structurally constrained
Venture capital accounted for 2.2% of hires, with a median base salary of $140,000, reflecting ongoing constraints in venture hiring. Despite renewed interest in AI startups, most VC firms remained small, capital-disciplined, and reluctant to expand headcount.
MIT Sloan MBA hiring in VC remained opportunistic and limited.
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Healthcare, Biotech, and Pharma: Outlier Upward Trend
Healthcare-related roles employed 8.1% of graduates, with a median base salary of $160,000, marking a rebound from 5.8% in 2023 and returning to levels consistent with Sloan’s longer-term average.
Healthcare: Outlier Compensation and Representation Trend at MIT Sloan MBA
The upward trend in Healthcare at MIT Sloan MBA is an outlier trend when compared to peer schools, where the hiring volumes have plateaued with the aggressive fund deployment away from Digital-First diagnostics to AI models and infrastructures related to AI.
Hiring during Q3 2024–Q2 2025 focused on digital health, biopharma operations, healthcare analytics, and supply-chain optimization, over payer-side roles.
MIT Sloan’s strength in healthcare stems from its emphasis on systems thinking, analytics, and operations, which aligns closely with how healthcare organizations hired during this period, cautiously, but consistently, and with a bias toward innovation and operation-driven roles.
Energy: Highest Median Base Salary
Energy employed 3.1% of the class, with a median base salary of $170,000, reflecting growing interest in renewable energy systems, energy infrastructure, and transition-related investment, particularly as AI-driven energy demand became a strategic issue in 2025.
Energy: Outlier Compensation at MIT Sloan MBA
From 2018, MIT pioneered efforts around renewable energy that right now are branded under the MIT Energy Initiative, where some of the latest technologies and business models around Virtual Power Plants (VPP), Carbon Capture, and Battery development in EVs are nurtured.
Additionally, a typical MIT Sloan MBA candidate has extensive operational and engineering experience in their niche before pursuing their management degree. This unique combination of energy initiative, entrepreneurial ecosystem, and operational-technology fluency has contributed to differentiating an MIT Sloan MBA candidate from other peers with historical placements in the industry.
The $170,000 median base salary in energy is one of the highest among M7 and Top 15 MBA programs, giving MIT Sloan MBA candidates a strong incentive to enter the industry.
Retail/CPG: Strong Compensation Declining Representation
While retail has been on a downward trend, the 2024-25 recruitment cycle saw Consumer Product Goods facing margin pressure, driven by the consolidation of consumer goods brands and competition from private label and DTC (Direct to Consumer) brands.
Retail brands began manufacturing their own products to offset the margin pressure they were facing from the e-commerce and DTC brands. The evolution of consumer behaviour to test new health-aware brands changed the lifelong loyalty seen in older consumers.
The disruption in Consumer Product Goods will continue to evolve until an equilibrium on Consumer Behavior, Private Label competition, E-Commerce growth, and scale in Digital-Only Distribution is reached.
Under such dynamic circumstances, Retail and CPG accounted for 3.6%, with a median base salary of $145,000, lower compared to M7 and other MIT Sloan industries but on the middle to upper end in compensation compared to offers in Top 15 MBA programs.
Industry | % Hired | Median Base Salary |
| Consulting | 32.3% | $190,000 |
| Technology | 23.3% | $165,000 |
| Finance | 20.6% | $175,000 |
| Private Equity | 3.1% | $182,500 |
| Investment Management / Hedge Fund | 4.5% | $165,000 |
| Investment Banking | 3.6% | $175,000 |
| Venture Capital | 2.2% | $140,000 |
| Healthcare | 8.1% | $160,000 |
| Retail/CPG | 3.6% | $145,000 |
| Energy | 3.1% | $170,000 |
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