When you graduate from Fisher College, you leave with much more than an MBA! You join one of the strongest, business school-alumni networks in the world - one that can help you significantly throughout your career.
With more than 60,000 Fisher alumni worldwide - many in leadership positions - you have limitless opportunities to network and get a head start on your professional journey. As your career advances, you will notice that the single most important technique for finding interesting professional challenges is networking. And the more people there are in your network, the more leads you are likely to generate.
Hands-On Alumni Involvement
From the day you join Fisher College as an MBA, you will be in close personal contact with our alumni, since many are intimately involved in our MBA program. With generous donations, Fisher alumni make sure that talented individuals receive needed support that enables them to obtain their MBAs and build successful careers.
In fact, a number of our alumni participate in our executive luncheon series, where MBAs have the opportunity to sit down in an intimate setting and ask MBA alumni questions about their careers and current trends in the business world. Or, you may opt to visit the corporate headquarters of multinational players, such as Limited Brands. CEO and Chairman Les Wexner, a Fisher College alumnus who has always welcomed our MBA students, offers a company and plant tour and hosts a networking dinner with senior Limited executives.
Alumni also visit our campus as senior lecturers and guest speakers, sharing their experiences and successes with both large audiences and smaller groups. In your first year, you will have an opportunity to partner with a Fisher graduate mentor, whose guidance and experiences in the business world will be invaluable to you in your academic studies, networking activities, and career search.
Fisher's powerful alumni online networking tool allows our current MBA students and alumni to search for specific profiles, industries or job functions. Students and alumni frequently interact and connect.
Alumni Bond Attracts Recruiters
Alumni also play an important role in finding that first job after receiving your MBA. According to a Wall Street Journal survey, nearly two-thirds of corporate recruiters say that an alumni link is very or somewhat important in their decision about which schools to visit. At Fisher College, with our strong alumni connections, we take great pride in having nearly 300 companies come and recruit on campus.
