Tuesday, December 23, 2025 | 10:24 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Nine out of 10 firms plan to hire MBA grads in 2017: GMAC Survey

This despite political concerns over immigration, work visas; US, APAC firms seen as top hirers

work, company, job, office, corporate, business
premium

Photo: Shutterstock

BS Reporter Ahmedabad
Despite political uncertainty over immigration and work visas, demand for MBA graduates is seen to be highest among companies in the United States and Asia-Pacific, as found by an employment survey by Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC).

GMAC, which conducts the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), found in its Corporate Recruiters Survey 2017 that globally 86 per cent or nearly nine out of 10 companies plan to hire recent MBA graduates this year, up from 79 per cent that hired them in 2016.

"Despite political uncertainty about the status of immigration and work visas in the United States and other