The full-time MBA program is of one-year duration. While 59% of the students accepted a job offer by graduation, 29% accepted a job offer by and within three months of graduation and 88% found a job within three months after graduation.

In terms of job locations, 88% chose Europe (including the Netherlands), 82% the Netherlands, 5% Asia, 4% North America and 1% the Middle East.

RSM International MBA Placement 2019 | Average Salary $76,594

MBA Grads Change their Profile

Of the 135 students in the class, 76% changed location, 73% changed the industry, 68% changed function, 43% changed all three and 35% changed at least two out of these three elements.

Earnings by Function

Though Marketing & Sales topped average salaries at $82,359, the maximum salary offer at $156,000 was from Finance & Accounting.

Consulting offered $67,921 average salary and $96,384 maximum salary. The average salary in Finance & Accounting was $78,001. General Management notched up an average salary of $79,596 with the maximum at $98,496, in Marketing & Sales average pay was $82,359 and maximum $143,640, in Operations & Logistics the average pay was $78,008 and maximum $98,496, in Others, average salary was $74,379 and maximum $106,020.

Sector-wise Employment

Finance & Accounting topped the sectors chosen by the Class of 2019 International MBA cohort at RSM Erasmus with Consulting in the second spot and Marketing & Sales third.

Finance & Accounting took in 23% of the cohort followed by Consulting 21% and Marketing & Sales 22%. Operations & Logistics comes next at 17% with General Management and Others at 6% each. Information Technology at 4% and Human Resources at 1% complete the picture.

RSM MBA Major Recruiters

Major recruiters for international MBA graduates at RSM range from Amazon, Infosys and KPMG to Dutch multinationals including Philips, Unilever and FrieslandCampina. The school says it provides various opportunities to connect with graduates through company presentations, recruitment events and networking opportunities.

“In addition to assisting students in their post-MBA job search, we also partner with companies by identifying the talent required to fill key roles within the organization. Our approach utilizes many tactics including CV books, industry panels, interviews and job posting boards,” RSM Erasmus says in the Employment Report.

The main recruiters in 2019 included AM Best, Aaeon, ABN AMRO, Accenture, AkzoNobel, Align Technology, Allego, Applied Medical Europe B.V., ASML, Booking.com, Bridgestone Europe NV/SA, c*funds, Capgemini, CIBC, CitizenM, COFRA, Credit Suisse, De Nederlandsche Bank, Deloitte, Deployment Matters, DSM, Europoort, EY, Fluke, FMO, FrieslandCampina, GrandVision, Heineken, Henkel, Hilti, Hoppinger, HSBC, Infosys Ltd., ING Group, InnoEnergy, International Flavors and Fragrances.

They also included Intertrust, KPMG, LaNubia Consulting, LG Electronics, Logitech, Mambu, Mendix, Mitsubishi Motors, Naspers, Nike, ODOSCOPE, PGGM, Philips, Porton Biologics, PwC, Quasset, RHI Magnesita, Ringier, Rockwool International A/S, Sail Ventures, Salesforce.com, Samsung, Schweppes, SCOPEinsight, Sealand-A Maersk Company, SHV Energy, Signify, Solon Capital Partners, TNT FedEx, Unilever, Uniper, Van Eck Consultancy, XPRIZE Foundation and ZorgServiceXL.

RSM MBA Class Profile 2019

• Number of students 135
• International Candidates 97%
• Gender ratio M 64: F 36
• Average Age 30 Years
• Average Experience 6 Years
• Average GMAT Score 640

Of the total 135 students, international candidates comprised 97%. The gender ratio was 64% male and 36% female. The average age of the cohort was 30 years. They had an average work experience of 6 years. Their average GMAT score was 640.

Nationalities represented

• India 20
• United States of America 18
• Taiwan 11
• Brazil 9
• China 8
• Indonesia 7
• Peru 7
• South Korea 6
• Russian Federation 5
• Netherland 4
• South Africa 4
• Ukraine 4

Other nationalities represented are Mexico (3), Canada, Colombia, Singapore, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom (2 each), Argentina, Belgium, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Georgia, Ghana, Italy, Kyrgyzstan, Philippines,  Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Syria, Thailand, Venezuela and  Zimbabwe (1 each).

Unlike many of the MBA classes having a preponderance of Engineers, RSM MBA class had  37% students with Business & Economics educational background, followed by Engineering 33%, Humanities and art 15%, Others 3% and Law 2%.  

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The remaining 25% comprise Science & Medicine (12%), Humanities & Art (9%), Law (3%) and Marketing & Sales (1%). The class has a total 106 students. The average age of the cohort is 29 years. The gender ratio is 37% female and 63% male. They have an average work experience of 6 years.

As many as 35 nationalities are represented. In demographic distribution, 20% are from Europe, 19% from Asia, 18% each from the Indian subcontinent & Latin America and 7% each from North America and South East Asia.

The 1-year MBA program lays special focus on providing the participants with a global mindset. With 97% of the cohort being international, the students will be working closely with people from diverse backgrounds.

The program gets underway in January. In the first term that runs through March, the foundations of management are taken up. These are Quantitative Platform for the business that highlights the importance of statistics as a decision support system in management.

For the participant, your career advancement is taken care of with personal coaching, mentoring and networking throughout the program duration. The Personal Leadership Development program (PLD) helps you discover what motivates others—and more importantly, what motivates yourself as an individual.

RSM claims that its sustainable thinking puts the students ahead of the global economy. “The best leaders take actions that benefit business, society and the environment all at once. It’s a difficult task, but our MBA graduates are up to the challenge. We emphasise sustainable business in our approach and produce ethical leaders in the process.”

It also says the school’s entrepreneurial approach allows students to turn their ideas into innovations. All MBA students have direct access to the knowledge and a network of the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Rotterdam Science Tower, home to more than 50 innovative companies. The Centre helps start-ups, SMEs and corporates besides hosting entrepreneurship events.

The program gets underway in January. In the first term that runs through March, the foundations of management are taken up. These are Quantitative Platform for the business that highlights the importance of statistics as a decision support system in management.

The Organisational Behaviour, Managerial Accounting, Management Science, Economic Environment of Business courses are taken up in addition to RSM’s special Personal Leadership Development.

Term 2 (April – Mid June) focus is on the practice of management. It involves Strategic Management, Financial Management, Human Resources Management, Marketing Management, Operations Management, Business, Society and Sustainable Development.

Term 3 (Mid June – August) focus is on Advanced Career Options. Participants have to select one from among Advanced Corporate Finance, Advanced Marketing, Advanced Strategy, Advanced Sustainability, Advanced Supply Chain Management and Living Management Consulting Project.

Term 4 (September – December) deals with MBA electives and international opportunities. It includes international study tours as well as an optional internship in which students have worked with major global firms including Nike, ABN AMRO, Friesland Campina, McKinsey, Microsoft, Amazon and The World Bank.(Image Source:Wikipedia.org)

Thus, it was a bit of surprise for a group of students from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) to be taken on a tour to Berlin, the start-up hub of Europe.

The trip, to explore a range of innovative and disruptive companies, was organised by the CEMS Club Rotterdam and participants of the MSc International Management/CEMS programme at RSM.

At neighbourhoods such as Kreuzberg, Prenzlauer Berg and Mitte, the students interacted CEMS alumni and other graduates who decided to work for start-ups after graduation.

They got insights into working for a start-up in its early stages, from seed financing or at the scale-up stage, through business cases and workshops provided by the companies they visited.

At Barzahlen, they realised the size and importance of the cash payment market in Germany and in Europe.

One of the bigger start-up firms visited was advertising technology company AppLift, where they set to work in teams on a business case about the use of marketing tools to promote a mobile application.

At Betahaus which hosts WATTx, an innovation hub working on smart climate solutions through the Internet of Things, they discovered how the open plan layout allows the sharing of knowledge and experiences across and between several start-up companies.

The students found FinLeap as a ‘start-up factory’ targeting financial technology firms focussing on new technologies and scalable business models to provide simpler and more transparent digital services and banking. Other start-up companies included Resolution Foundry and HomeToGo.

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“The CEMS programme has a lot of big corporate partners. multinationals, consultancy firms and banks, so events are often tailored around those types of firms, Tim Heijmann and Jon Gadellaa, who organised the tour, said.

“We had the feeling that one segment of the global business world was left out of the mix: start-ups. We wanted people to experience how it is to work in a smaller company, and show them the innovative and disruptive environment of the Berlin start-up scene,” they added.

“We believe we reached our goal as some people are planning to apply for one of the visited companies, and many others said they have now a better understanding of their career options and opportunities,” they said.

Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) is one of Europe’s leading business schools, and ranked among the top three for research. It offers a range of bachelor, master, MBA, PhD and executive programmes. (Image Courtsey : www.rsm.nl)