Your path to a successful consulting career starts at Yale SOM
Develop the skills and perspectives sought by the world's leading consulting firms.
Career Paths
Sample Employers // Accenture / Bain & Company, Inc. / The Boston Consulting Group, Inc. (BCG) / Deloitte Consulting / EY (Ernst & Young) / McKinsey & Co.
Start in an internship
Find your first job
Meet Your Community
Connect with MBA Student Ambassadors to learn more about the Yale SOM community.
Community support
Finding the right role for you is a joint endeavor.
The Career Development Office provides rigorous coaching and preparation and creates opportunities for students and firms to connect, both on campus and globally. Through the Consulting Club, second-year students prepare their first-year counterparts to ace case interviews and be ready for their summer internships.
Consulting club at a glance
How a Yale MBA Can Help
Success in management consulting requires more than analytical horsepower. Great consultants know how to frame the right problem, analyze it rigorously, bring the right perspectives to bear, and align people around action. A Yale MBA develops each of these capabilities in distinctly Yale ways.
- Frame the problem. Yale SOM’s integrated curriculum trains you to approach complex problems through multiple stakeholder perspectives, challenge assumptions, and see what others may miss.
- Analyze it rigorously. Develop the analytical discipline to interrogate evidence, exercise judgment, and think critically as AI and emerging technologies reshape both the tools and the problems consultants face.
- Bring the right perspectives to bear. Draw on courses, faculty, and expertise across Yale—from law and medicine to engineering, global affairs, and the environment—to bring broader insight to complex problems.
- Bring people with you. Yale SOM’s collaborative culture builds the ability to communicate across perspectives and align others around action. Through the Consulting Club, second-year students coach first-years, classmates practice cases together, and peers invest in one another’s success—making preparation for a highly competitive profession a collective endeavor.
Learn by doing
SOM offers a range of practicum courses that enable you to work on a real consulting-style project with a company or nonprofit.
The MBA program’s integrated core curriculum helped me realize that no problem can be solved in isolation. Everything requires context, and when you collaborate with people who have diverse perspectives, skill sets, and areas of expertise, your solutions will be stronger.
