Rome Business School students' salary increases by 27% on average after completing our Masters

• Rome Business School’s numbers: 3754 job offers published, 1047 partner companies, personalized career service for career momentum: 45.1% of students found a job before the end of the Master’s program and 72.1% got a salary increase.
• Forge of talent in demand in Italy and abroad: 62% of our students work outside Italy, 46% work in multinationals, 82 companies at Career Fairs ready to meet them including Deloitte, Versace, Oracle
• We offer a professionalizing path adapted to the career moment: 42 recruiters, 2311 interviews, 58 appointments with partners such as Ferrari, Eni, Liu Jo per student over the course of the master: 82% of students say they found a job more easily thanks to the Master.
• The only Business School in Italy transparent in publishing career progression and salary data of its students: 1 year after studies the salary of an MBA student is €54,500, the salary increases on average by 27% and more in Europe than in the US (+20% vs. +13%), and grows especially for those studying Human Resources and Food & Hospitality (+92% and +60%), three of the most profitable areas also Finance and Data Science.

Rome Business School is confirmed to be the business school in Italy with the greatest impact on students’ careers, the Employment report 2023 proves: 45.1% of students found a job before the end of the master’s degree and 72.1% got a salary increase.

Personalized career service and networking opportunities the main keys to success: 42 recruiters, 2311 interviews, 58 appointments with companies such as Google, Ferrari, KPMG, Enel per student over the course of the master’s program, in addition to 28 workshops, 30 company meetings and two annual Career Fairs with 82 participating companies, mean that 75.3% of students took advantage of the network of contacts offered by Rome Business School and 86.2% are now in a job role of greater responsibility.

Salaries rise

Investing in education pays off. According to the Employment Report, the MBA is now the most profitable course of study, with a salary of €54500.29 1 year after completion, but doing a Master’s degree turns out to be the right choice for a salary jump particularly in Human Resources and Food & Beverage (respectively +92% and 60% salary increase 1 year after completion). Salaries also grow strongly for those training in Finance (+30%) and Marketing (+24%), and to a greater extent in Europe (+20%) and Asia (+26%) than in the US (+13%). How are these results achieved? “By creating synergies through an agile and functional approach to companies’ recruitment needs. We train international, flexible, highly selected talents who embrace the values of global thinking, diversity and inclusion, professionals ready to operate in national and international contexts,” says Florinda Orsini, Head of the Career Center at Rome Business School.

The Career Service

“Career support for students has to meet new needs,” Orsini continues, “we have done this by introducing 4 new pathways, creating a personalized service tailored to each individual’s career moment, enhanced by individual meetings, mock interviews, workshops and meetings with career coaches, HR consultants and recruiters.” The novelties lie in a highly personalized pathway: the Career Starter, dedicated to those who want to excel in their first work experiences; the Career Mover, for students seeking international employment; the Career Advancer for those who want to grow vertically; and the Career Propeller dedicated to MBA students, to scale the world of entrepreneurship or pursue vertical career progression. Important career impact: the Career Center has contributed to 82.3 percent of students in 2022 having improved their skills in finding new job opportunities, and 86.2 percent are now in a job role of greater responsibility.

Entrepreneurial talents

Not only that, the Employment Report shows that more and more students are acquiring the right skills and knowledge to succeed in the world of entrepreneurship: 31.8 percent of Rome Business School students are now entrepreneurs. In fact, as many as 152 business projects have been developed by RBS4Entrepreneurship since 2021 to date, Rome Business School’s business incubator. Among the participants mostly women (64 percent), implementers of projects in the international arena (73.6 percent), and especially in the Retail and Mass Market (20 percent), Consulting (14 percent) and NGOs and Social Services (12 percent) sectors. Alumni Business Schools today entrepreneurs employ more than 500 employees in 34.2 percent of cases.

Growth factors

Indeed, it is crucial today to continually keep up to date, invest in one’s training and always have a look, “The job market will see an increase in collaboration between professionals from different countries. In addition, the growing influence of digitization and automation will transform work at all levels,” explains Angelo Ghidoni, Human Resources Senior Director at partner company Oracle. It is no coincidence that Rome Business School has always focused on the internationality of the experience: the presence of students from 136 nations enriches on a professional and personal level, and is leverage for international careers: 62 percent of Rome Business School students now work outside Italy, and 79 percent are employed in companies that operate internationally, and 46 percent in multinationals.

Another goal of the business school is to enable students to develop the right soft skills to help them navigate the world of work through 28 dedicated workshops and more than 2,300 interviews with recruiting partners such as Hays and Manpower. “Job success is a combination of technical and human skills but also a lot of passion,” for Maria Luisa Garofalo, Talent Acquisition & Development Coordinator at Doctors Without Borders, employability partner, who continues “the personal purpose of each person, the ‘why’ behind every move, is the drive toward overcoming obstacles and toward excellence, what organizations need to succeed.”