{"id":24950,"date":"2025-10-16T11:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=24950"},"modified":"2025-10-16T11:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:33:58","slug":"baylor-mba-program-ranks-no-6-in-the-nation-for-most-employed-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2025\/10\/baylor-mba-program-ranks-no-6-in-the-nation-for-most-employed-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor MBA program ranks No. 6 in the nation for most employed graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24951\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hsb-mba-oct25.jpg\" alt=\"Sunset over Baylor's Foster Campus for Business and Innovation\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hsb-mba-oct25.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hsb-mba-oct25-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hsb-mba-oct25-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/hsb-mba-oct25-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the goals of a college degree, especially a graduate degree, is to help land a job. Few MBA programs are better at that than Baylor&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hankamer.baylor.edu\/mba\/full-time\">Baylor&#8217;s full-time MBA program<\/a> ranks No. 6 in the nation for helping graduates find employment after graduation, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-graduate-schools\/slideshows\/mba-programs-with-the-most-employed-graduates?onepage&amp;slide11\"><em>U.S. News<\/em>&#8216; most recent data<\/a>. Last year&#8217;s class saw 92% of graduates employed within three months of graduation &#8212; one of just nine programs nationally to top 90%, and the only one in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The full-time program is one of three <a href=\"https:\/\/hankamer.baylor.edu\/mba\">Baylor MBA offerings<\/a> from the <a href=\"https:\/\/hankamer.baylor.edu\/\">Hankamer School of Business<\/a>. Students can also earn their degree <a href=\"https:\/\/hankamer.baylor.edu\/mba\/online\">online<\/a>, or via an <a href=\"https:\/\/hankamer.baylor.edu\/mba\/dallas\">executive MBA program in Dallas<\/a>. All three produce outstanding graduates ready for new jobs and\/or advancement in their field.<\/p>\n<p>The list of Baylor MBA graduates is an impressive one: <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2025\/09\/baylor-alumna-named-among-fortunes-most-powerful-people-in-business\/\">TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett<\/a> (&#8217;01), <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2022\/06\/two-time-baylor-alum-named-walmarts-new-cfo\/\">Walmart CFO John Rainey<\/a> (&#8217;95), <a href=\"https:\/\/alumni.web.baylor.edu\/person\/2013\/bob-simpson\">Texas Rangers co-owner Bob Simpson<\/a> (&#8217;71), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kennesaw.edu\/president\/schwaig.php\">Kennesaw State University President Kathy Schwaig<\/a> (&#8217;86), <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2024\/10\/baylor-alum-inducted-into-broadcasting-cable-hall-of-fame\/\">Broadcasting &amp; Cable Hall of Famer Valari Dobson Staab<\/a> (&#8217;84), and <a href=\"https:\/\/boardofregents.web.baylor.edu\/person\/william-bill-e-mearse\">Baylor Board of Regents Chair Bill Mearse<\/a> (&#8217;79), just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor MBA grads!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the goals of a college degree, especially a graduate degree, is to help land a job. Few MBA programs are better at that than Baylor&#8217;s. Baylor&#8217;s full-time MBA program ranks No. 6 in the nation for helping graduates find employment after graduation, according to U.S. News&#8216; most recent data. Last year&#8217;s class saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}