For MBAs, the ‘holy grail’s not there this year’

Careers in the News: Weary graduates from top MBA programs such as the Wharton School of Business, New York University’s Stern School and the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business have relinquished their dreams of joining elite Wall Street firms.  With jobs in the once-booming finance sector down exponentially, some grads are switching to industries like energy, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, and bio-tech, while others volunteer, take on internships, and travel – it seems that only the brave, stubborn few, hold out for the upscale, high-paying finance jobs that drew them to the nation’s top schools in the first place.

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Written by Amberly Scott