Georgetown University I McDonough School of Business
Class of 2025 Career Success
Talent for Every Opportunity
Employment Overview
Class of 2025
$125,212
Average Base Salary
$95,445 for Pre-Experience Students*
$145,665 for Experienced Students**
92 %
$110,000
Median Base Salary
$100,000 for Pre-Experience Students
$126,000 for Experienced Students
Employment Rate Within Six Months of Graduation
86% for Pre-Experience Students
98% for Experienced Students
Class of 2025 Profile Data
» 174 Students: 82 Pre-Experience, 92 Experienced » Age Range: 22-62 Years
Three-Year Comparison of Comprehensive Salary Data
Classes of 2023-2025
$126,280 Average Base Salary
$113,833 Median Base Salary For salary data, the sample size is 65. For all other career data, the sample size is 160.
Average salary increase for experienced students between the time of admission and six months of graduation. 69%
* Pre-experience students have fewer than four years of work experience by graduation. ** Experienced students have more than four years of work experience by graduation.
Pre-Experience Graduates
Graduates with 0-4 Years of Work Experience $ 100,000
86%
Signing Bonus $ 95,445
Base Salary $ 5,412
of early career graduates were employed within six months of graduation. 2% were enrolled full-time in a new academic program. 12% were still in the job search or were taking an intentional career break, traveling, or volunteering.
Employment
Top Industries
Investment Banking
Corporate Finance
Asset Management
Consulting
Banking / Capital Markets
Real Estate / Construction
Wealth Management
Audit / Tax / Assurance
Other
Other = Equity Research, Healthcare, Venture
Capital, Data Analysis, Digital Assets, Nonprofit Finance, Law, Investor Relations, and more.
Employers for Pre-Experience Graduates
AIG, Alantra, Ally Financial, Amazon, Anderson, Bessemer Trust, Blackrock, Bloomberg, Blue Delta Capital Partners, Blue Ocean Technologies, Booz Allen Hamilton, Cambridge Associates, CBRE, Chesky Partners, Copart, Deloitte, District Wealth Strategies, Enviva, EY, FHL Bank Office of Finance, Georgetown University, Goldman Sachs, Guidehouse, Harris Williams*, HKA, Intrepid, Joele Frank, Lydian Energy, Millennium Management, Morgan Stanley, NextEra Energy, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings, Pilot Company, Piper Sandler, PNC, Ritz Banc Group, Spinoso Real Estate Group, Stephens, Texas Farm Credit, The Hackett Group, Truist*, Vanguard, W.G. Nielsen and Company, Whiting Turner, Willkie Farr and Gallagher
* Denotes companies that employ more than one recent graduate from the MSF Class of 2025.
Alumni Profiles
Internships Class of 2025
20 % of students in the graduating class of 2025 completed an internship (either on-cycle during the summer or off-cycle during the fall or spring) prior to graduation. Companies that sponsored paid internships include:
Experienced Graduates’ Career Success
Employers for Experienced Graduates
A&L Blackridge, AllienceBernstein, Amazon Web Services, Analogue Capital Management, Bank of America Private Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Burk Royalty, Change Home Mortgage, Con Edison, Danaher Corporation, Dimensional Fund Advisors, Drone America, EG Capital, EJF Capital, EY, FactSet, Geico, Georgetown University, International Finance Corporation, Jones Trading, Lenovo, Lockheed Martin, Macquarie, McKinsey & Co., Nationwide, Pantheon Ventures, Paramount Price, The World Bank Group, Troutman Pepper Locke, UBS*, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Postal Service, U.S. Navy, Vibrant Emotional Health
* Denotes companies that employ more than one experienced graduate from the MSF Class of 2025.
Alumni Profile
Experiential Learning
The ability to apply knowledge gained in the classroom to real-world projects and business problems is critical in today’s marketplace. Graduates of the Georgetown MSF program have ample opportunities — both through embedded team-based projects and optional internshiplike experiences. By graduation, all students participate in a week-long team-based investment competition and a six-week global consulting project capstone that pairs teams with international clients and complex business problems to solve. In addition, students have the option of completing a formal internship or signature MSF Clinics program that pairs teams with businesses to address topics ranging from global pricing to valuation to AI integration. These six-week projects are offered during the winter and summer and engage alumni, current students, Executives in Residence, and others in complex problemsolving and executive presentations.
Where Graduates Work
“Graduates
Mackenzie Lowenthal, Senior Associate Director, MSF Career Management
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Georgetown MSF
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Georgetown University Master of Science in Finance
Career Statistics were gathered in accordance with guidance provided by NACE and MBACSEA, two preeminent professional organizations that provide guidance for firstdestination and post-graduation statistics collection and reporting.
