BCG has the diamond structure - so they take twice as many MBAs vs undergrads. About 70 to 80 undergrads and 150 MBAs for BCG.

McKinsey and Bain or diamond structure and will take more undergrads. 100 undergrads for Mckinsy and 60 for Bain.

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In Asia, the number is shockingly small.

Numbers of undergraduate/graduate recruited for the M company in Asia(2009) Japan: 3 Korea: 1 China/H.K: 11 / 2

 
7S:
consulting is doing horrible in asia last year

2010 will even see a lower number

why's that? (curious, not doubtful)

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I've heard first-hand from recruiters that McK and BCG have diamond structures (many more MBA's than undergrads), and Bain has a pyramid structure (the opposite). So Bain has proportionately more undergrads. However, you also have to keep in mind that Bain is a much smaller firm overall than the other two, so they may in fact recruit fewer undergrads overall.

 

My school had five people get offers at McKinsey this year (this is for Summer Business Analyst), in New York. Assuming that the other top targets also had a similar number, that's easily fifteen summer analysts in the New York office. Does that seem too high?

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anyone have global numbers?

i want to be able to say, of xxxxx applicants, only xxx got hired, of which i am one.

these stats would be helpful in explaining to my family that getting a job in mbb is kind of a big deal.

 

Make up numbers, you're a consultant after all. BCG has ~70 offices, Bain has ~40 offices, McKinsey has over 100. Assume ~10 BAs per office. I'd say around 2500 is probably close. I've also heard around 2% of applicants get offers.

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Make up numbers, you're a consultant after all. BCG has ~70 offices, Bain has ~40 offices, McKinsey has over 100. Assume ~10 BAs per office. I'd say around 2500 is probably close. I've also heard around 2% of applicants get offers.

Here's my wild-ass guess with made up numbers:

M has 9,000 consultants, B(CG) has 4,400, and B(ain) has ~2,500* systemwide.

*5,000 employees systemwide, and B being pretty similar in structure to M, we'll say about half of them are front office.

MBB, like all partnerships, are a pyramid-type structure, with fewer people as you go up through the ranks, but one thing that we should be aware of is that this may or may not apply to the AC/BA level (there might be more MBA-level new hires). So we'll assume there are on average about 2 BAs to 3 associates. Partners probably make up about 10% of those ranks, mid/upper level, non-partner ranks (everything between partner and post-MBA new hire) probably make up about 40%, with the rest being BAs and associates. So 20% for BAs and 30% associates.

My final WAG would be M: 1,800, B(CG): 880, and B(ain): ~500, worldwide. Actually I came pretty close to your guess of 2,500.

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You could use LinkedIn to get a rough estimate. For instance, searching people listed as "Business Analyst" with McKinsey as current company would give you 1345 results. Now for the number of Associates, we would need to exclude the "Associate Principals" from the results. So we would get 729 APs and 4122 Associates. This would give us 3393 (4122-729) Associates, for a BA to Associate Ratio of 2.5 to 1.

 

Furthermore, to get an estimate of the number of hires, it should be at least half of that quantity, assuming positive growth ratio, so I would say McKinsey hires at least 670 BAs for year around the globe.

The same procedure can be done to find out numbers for Bain and BCG.

 

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