In business there There is no surer sign of distress than when a company delays its financial results. This also seems to be true for business schools. Around Christmas – and often later than their usual schedules – major US business schools released their equivalent of annual reports, which include data on new jobs for graduates of their Master of Business Administration (MBA), usually two-year courses aimed at students with professional experience. We did the numbers. Across the top 15 business schools, the share of 2024 students who sought and accepted a job offer within three months of graduating, a standard measure of career outcomes, declined by six percentage points. percentage, at 84%. Compared to the average of the last five years, this share has decreased by eight points.