It’s been a year since I graduated from the full-time MBA program at MIT Sloan and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to work as a Product Manager. I thought it would be interesting to see where Sloanies go after they graduate and, using data from a survey sent out shortly before graduation, came up with an interactive visualization: Sloanies Around the World.

Clicking on “USA” from the menu presents a clearer picture of where Sloanies ended up in the States:

The top 4 cities where my classmates ended up are:

1. Boston
2. San Francisco Bay Area
3. New York
4. Seattle

It is interesting to see how post-MBA career choice determines location. I wanted to remain in software, and chose MIT because of its reputation in technology and entrepreneurship. In fact, technology is the second most popular career choice (after consulting) for Sloanies. Indeed, out of all the M7 business schools, Sloan had the highest proportion of graduates choosing technology (26%). (Source: The M7: The Super Elite Business Schools By The Numbers) For me, the Bay Area was the obvious choice even though it’s on the opposite coast. Many of my classmates echoed this sentiment, which explains San Francisco and Seattle being top post-MBA destinations.

While I’d expect this year’s graduating class to have a similar map, what would be most interesting is visualizations from other schools. I would expect to see maps for schools with a strong finance reputations like Harvard, Booth, Wharton and Columbia be much more heavily skewed towards financial centers like New York.