Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Placements: Job Opportunities and Salaries

MIT Placements and Employment Rate 2025

MIT's 2025 Graduating Student Survey found 77.4% of master's graduates and 45.9% of bachelor's graduates in full-time jobs for the autumn after graduation. The bachelor's figure is low because 41.2% went straight to graduate or professional school, not because they failed to find work.

• Add work and further study together and 87.1% of bachelor's and 88.1% of master's graduates had a confirmed next step at the survey date.
• The survey is taken in the spring before graduation, so the master's job rate is a pre-graduation figure, stricter than a six-month rate.
• MIT does not split these outcomes by nationality, so the rates cover all graduates including international students.

Among graduates who were looking for a job straight away, MIT's 2023 survey recorded 92% of bachelor's and 87% of master's graduates with a job within three months of graduating. The 2025 Doctoral Exit Survey found 70% of PhD graduates had a signed contract or definite commitment at the time of the survey, from 325 responses.

Source: MIT Institutional Research, Student Placement page, 2025 Graduating Student Survey, read on 23 October 2026.

MIT Average Salary After Graduation 2025

The only MIT-wide pay figure comes from Student Financial Services. It cites an average starting salary of USD 145,820 (INR 1.38 Crore) for a graduate entering industry, from the most recent Graduating Student Survey as of November 2025. MIT publishes no median or degree-level split outside the Sloan School, so the verified medians below are all Sloan figures.

• The MBA median is base pay only; the median other compensation of USD 24,350 (INR 23.12 Lakhs) sits on top.
• The business analytics median is a one-year degree figure, which is why its payback is faster than the two-year MBA's despite the lower salary.
• The USD 145,820 (INR 1.38 Crore) average is a mean across all industries and degree levels, so it overstates a humanities salary and understates a quant role.

Source: MIT Sloan 2025-2026 MBA Employment Report and 2025 Master of Business Analytics Employment Report, Class of 2025; MIT Student Financial Services, Return on Investment page, November 2025.

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MIT MBA Placements and Salary 2025

Of the 256 MBA graduates seeking jobs in the Class of 2025, 91.0% had an offer and 87.1% had accepted one three months after graduation. At graduation itself, 73.8% held an offer, and 11.1% of the class started their own businesses.

• Consulting takes a third of the class, and its middle band runs only from USD 190,000 to USD 192,000 (INR 1.80 Crore to INR 1.82 Crore).
• Technology pays the lowest base of the big three, so a technology-bound MBA should budget on USD 165,000 (INR 1.57 Crore), not the class median.
• Only 64.6% of the class were job seekers; the rest were sponsored, founding companies or continuing study.

Source: MIT Sloan 2025-2026 MBA Employment Report, MBA Class of 2025, 396 graduates in the employment profile.

MIT Placements by Course and Salary 2025

MIT publishes programme-level outcomes for its Sloan degrees only. The Master of Business Analytics Class of 2025 reached 95.5% accepted offers within three months and 98.5% within six. Its median base salary was USD 143,000 (INR 1.36 Crore).

Business analytics graduates went almost entirely into data science, 95.2% by function. Technology took 51.6% of offers and consulting 17.2%, both at a USD 145,000 (INR 1.38 Crore) median. Finance took 12.5% at USD 142,500 (INR 1.35 Crore). Palantir and Boston Consulting Group each hired nine graduates from a class of 80.

Source: MIT Sloan 2025-2026 MBA Employment Report and 2025 Master of Business Analytics Employment Report, Class of 2025.

Top Recruiters Hiring MIT Graduates

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Meta, OpenAI, McKinsey, Bain, Boston Consulting Group, Jane Street and Citadel are named by MIT as employers of the Class of 2025. The list below groups the university's named employers by sector; MIT does not rank them or give hire counts outside the Sloan reports.

• The Sloan MBA list covers 26 firms that each hired three or more graduates across the Classes of 2025 and 2026, taking about 40% of both classes.
• Quant trading firms Jane Street and Citadel appear on the institute-wide list, a sign that MIT bachelor's graduates reach those employers directly.
• A named employer proves at least one hire in that class, not an annual campus visit.

Source: MIT Facts, Alumni page, top employers of the Class of 2025; MIT Sloan 2025-2026 MBA Employment Report and 2025 Master of Business Analytics Employment Report.

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MIT Placements by Sector and Job Role

Information and computer technology took 42.7% of bachelor's graduates and 24.3% of master's graduates who accepted jobs in the 2025 Graduating Student Survey. Finance and professional services split most of the rest.

At Sloan the job-role split is published too. Consulting and strategic planning took 38.9% of MBA graduates at a USD 190,000 (INR 1.80 Crore) median. Finance took 15.9% at USD 175,000 (INR 1.66 Crore). Product management took 13.6% at USD 178,000 (INR 1.69 Crore), and private equity 4.0% at the top median of USD 192,500 (INR 1.83 Crore).

Source: MIT Institutional Research, Student Placement page, 2025 Graduating Student Survey; MIT Sloan 2025-2026 MBA Employment Report, Class of 2025.

Where MIT Graduates Work: USA and Abroad

98% of bachelor's, 84% of master's and 89% of doctoral graduates from the Class of 2025 expected to work in the United States. Among MBA graduates reporting a salary, 92.3% took jobs in the USA, with the Northeast alone at 52.3%.

• MBA graduates who left the USA earned less, with medians of USD 140,000 (INR 1.33 Crore) in Europe and USD 110,000 (INR 1.04 Crore) in Asia.
• The Latin America median was USD 100,000 (INR 94.93 Lakhs), from 1.8% of reported salaries.
• Staying in the USA past OPT depends on the H-1B lottery, which neither MIT nor the employer controls.

Source: MIT Facts, Alumni page, Class of 2025; MIT Sloan 2025-2026 MBA Employment Report and 2025 Master of Business Analytics Employment Report.

MIT Career Services for International Students

Career Advising and Professional Development runs the Graduating Student Survey, employer recruiting and advising for all MIT students. The Sloan Career Development Office handles MBA and business analytics recruiting separately. These are services, not outcomes, and neither office promises a job.

• Sloan's network produced 62.9% of MBA offers and 68.4% of business analytics offers in the Class of 2025, so school channels matter more than cold applications.
• Career Advising publishes outcome dashboards by degree level, and the Doctoral Exit Survey covers PhD destinations.
• The International Students Office handles OPT and STEM OPT filings, with an MIT administrative fee of USD 300 (INR 28,479) from 1 April 2026.

Post-Study Work After MIT for Indian Students

An MIT graduate on an F-1 visa can work for 12 months on Optional Practical Training. A STEM-designated degree adds a 24-month STEM OPT extension, for 36 months in total. No employer sponsorship is needed for OPT itself, but the STEM extension requires an E-Verify registered employer and a signed Form I-983 training plan.

• Unemployment is capped at 90 days during the first 12 months, plus 60 more days once the STEM extension is approved.
• Longer-term work needs an H-1B visa, which employers file through an annual lottery that no university outcome figure can predict.
• MIT charges a USD 300 (INR 28,479) administrative fee for STEM OPT processing from 1 April 2026, on top of the USCIS filing fee.

Nearly every MIT engineering, science and analytics degree is STEM-designated, which is why 84% of master's graduates could plan to work in the USA. Check the DHS STEM list for your exact programme code before you enrol.

Also Check: STEM OPT Extension Guide for Indian Students