Ranking of employers of HEC Paris alumni
The employability of graduates is at the heart of the concerns of business schools. Who are the biggest employers of HEC Paris graduates? In which companies do business school alumni work? Business Cool unveils the 2022 ranking!
HEC Paris is one of the best business schools in the world. It’s not us who say it, but the different rankings, whether it’s the SIGEM 2022of the classification of best Masters in Management or national charts. Thus, companies snap up business school graduates!
For its Grande Ecole Program, HEC Paris claims a very high employability rate. 97% of the establishment’s former students find a job within three months of graduation. Nearly 40% of HEC Paris graduates work abroad and former students of the school have an exit salary of €60,000 gross per year, according to information provided by the institution.
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Where do HEC Paris graduates work?
Before revealing the ranking of employers of HEC Paris alumni, Business Cool offers you a small zoom on the major sectors of activity in which the alumni of the business school fit. Unsurprisingly, it is in the world of consulting that the institution’s graduates flock. It must be said that the big firms (MBB) are also snapping up HEC graduates. Each year, approximately 34% of graduates from the outgoing class go into this sector of activity.
The other major exit sectors of the HEC Paris Grande École Program are financial services (24%), technology (13%), the public sector and NGOs (5%), industry, also paying industry luxury (4%) and the media (3%). It should be noted that 10% of business school graduates set up their own business.
The international also appeals to graduates of HEC Paris. While 58% work in France, 19% go to other European countries. 11% of the establishment’s graduates opt for a job in the United Kingdom upon leaving the PGE of the business school. They are 6% to work in Asia and Oceania, 3% in North or South America, and 3% in Africa and the Middle East.
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Methodology for ranking employers of HEC Paris alumni
To produce this ranking of employers of HEC Paris alumni, we based ourselves on the information provided by the alumni themselves on the professional social network LinkedIn. It should be noted, however, that this is an indicative ranking placed ahead of major trends, but does not represent the accuracy of graduates for the entirety of graduates in each class. Indeed, not all HEC Paris graduates are present on LinkedIn or have not provided information on their current employer.
The ranking of the largest employers of HEC Paris graduates is based on the profiles of HEC Paris graduates between 1900 and 2022. Indeed, we did not consider it useful to include graduates from promotions before the year 1900, judging that they had not requested an active LinkedIn account. We have also eliminated statistical aberrations and possible erroneous information transmitted by the social network.
It is important to emphasize that, while we have highlighted data from the HEC Paris Grande École Program, this ranking takes into account the information provided by all of the school’s graduates, all programs combined. Thus, some courses welcoming more international students, this can influence certain figures communicated in the ranking.
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Ranking of employers of HEC Paris alumni
Rang | Employer | Number of alumni on LinkedIn |
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1 | BNP Paribas | 564 |
2 | BCG | 513 |
3 | McKinsey | 449 |
4 | L’Oreal | 433 |
5 | Amazon | 382 |
6 | Atos | 349 |
seven | TotalEnergies | 310 |
8 | Deloitte | 308 |
9 | 277 | |
ten | OCP Group | 258 |
11 | Goldman Sachs | 217 |
12 | AWS | 125 |
Analysis of the ranking of employers of HEC Paris alumni
As you can see, the ranking of employers of HEC Paris alumni based on LinkedIn data is fairly representative of the information provided by the business school on the page dedicated to its Grande École Program. We find, all the programs combined, the major sectors of activity highlighted by the HEC integration surveys: banking-finance, consulting, auditing, tech.
However, the board is holding more and more women graduates from Parisiennes and we wanted to observe whether this trend was rather recent, since BCG and McKinsey only arrive in 2e and 3e positions in this ranking which includes information on graduates from 1900 to 2022. Thus, by observing the employers of graduates over the past ten years, we can see that BCG is in first position, while McKinsey comes second. The top 5 ends with Amazon, Atos and OCP Group.
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Careers of HEC Paris graduates
Thanks to LinkedIn, we were also able to analyze the different departments in which graduates of HEC Paris. Unsurprisingly, the commercial department, finance and marketing are in the top 5. This thematic ranking also highlights the importance of entrepreneurship.
Rang | Department | Number of employees on LinkedIn |
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1 | Business Development | 28770 |
2 | Operations | 13101 |
3 | Finance | 12267 |
4 | Sales | 8634 |
5 | Marketing | 6031 |
6 | Advice | 5474 |
seven | TIC | 5329 |
8 | Communication | 4433 |
9 | HR | 3913 |
ten | Entrepreneurship | 3592 |
Entrepreneurship being more and more publicized, we wanted to know if this trend had become more widespread among HEC Paris graduates. Surprising result, when we consider the different professions exercised by the school’s alumni over the past 10 years, entrepreneurship only occurs in 14e position, far behind human resources and even the media. If we look only at the last three years, entrepreneurship even comes out of the top 15.
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The countries in which HEC Paris graduates work
Finally, we looked at the countries where graduates of all HEC Paris programs work. Unsurprisingly, Qatar made its appearance in the top 10. Indeed, the business school provides its Executive MBA within the country. However, Europe and the United States remain popular with business school alumni.
Rang | Country | Number of alumni on LinkedIn |
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1 | France | 59900 |
2 | United States | 4374 |
3 | UK | 4078 |
4 | Swiss | 3052 |
5 | Spain | 2221 |
6 | Germany | 2211 |
seven | Morocco | 1684 |
8 | India | 1349 |
9 | United Arab Emirates | 1046 |
ten | Qatar | 811 |