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2025 Standards Revisions




CSEA is pleased to release revised Standards for Reporting Employment Data for Full-time MBA, Part-time MBA, and Specialty Master's Programs. The revisions are the result of a multi-year effort which included market research, global member feedback surveys, in-person and virtual workshops, and a significant investment of time on the part of CSEA volunteers and staff. The goal for the revisions was to update the Standards according to notable, ongoing changes in the recruitment marketplace, clarify frequent questions and concerns from CSEA members, and provide additional consistency across all documents. The documents were also reformatted for clarity and readability.

The new Standards go into effect beginning with the graduating class of 2026 (students graduating between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026).

If you have any questions or concerns about the revised Standards, please contact CSEA Standards Consultant, Beth Ursin.

Why Follow the CSEA Standards?
2025 Revised Standards
Summary of Significant Revisions
Training Opportunities
2025 Revision Process and Timeline
2025 Standards Committee and Revisions Teams
Standards History

 

Why Follow the Standards?

Owned and copyrighted by CSEA, the Standards are the platform by which business schools on a global scale can capture, analyze and distribute employment information about graduating students in a transparent, consistent and comparable way to internal and external stakeholders. The Standards were created and are continuously reviewed by business school career center professionals, who have the most up-to-date and relevant knowledge about the industry, outcomes, and uses of the data. The impact of the Standards can be seen across multiple stakeholders and purposes:
  • They allow for accurate year-over-year comparison for business school internal benchmarking and trend analysis
  • The allow prospective students, employers, and other external stakeholders to obtain accurate and comparable data across multiple schools
  • They provide a framework for vendors who develop products to assist schools with data collection and reporting
  • They are used to calculate some data for various business school rankings institutions
 

2025 Revised Standards

CSEA Standards for Reporting Full-time MBA Employment Statistics

CSEA Standards for Reporting Full-time Specialty Master's Employment Statistics

CSEA Standards for Reporting Part-Time MBA (Excluding Executive) and Part-time Specialty Master’s Graduating Class Profile

 

Training Opportunities

Join us to hear an overview about the recent changes made to the Standards. CSEA Standards Consultant Beth Ursin will walk through the changes and answer questions about implementation. Select the link below to register for the training and receive the login details. Recordings will be available for CSEA members in the Document Library after they are complete.
 
  • May 1st, 10 - 11 am ET, Full-time MBA Standards
  • May 7th, 10 - 11 am ET, Specialty Masters Standards
  • May 9th, 10 - 11 am ET, Part-time MBA Standards
The revisions will also be reviewed during the following sessions during the 2025 Global Conference in Atlanta, June 17 - 20:
 
  • Tuesday, 6/17, 1 - 2:15 pm - Pre-conference Standards deep dive
  • Wednesday, 6/18, 4 - 5:30 pm - Standards 101
 
 

2025 Revision Process and Timeline

The Standards Committee conducts a review of the Standards for potential updates approximately every 4 - 5 years. A Standards revision is a significant investment of time and resources on the part of CSEA, member schools, licensed vendors, and other constituents, and therefore revisions are only made when determined necessary due to a significant and ongoing change in industry trends and/or continuous requests from the membership.

 
Activity Time frame
The CSEA Standards Consultant keeps a list of frequently asked questions from the membership. Ongoing
Standards revisions teams were created for each set of Standards based on interest, as well as diversity (school size, school ranking, geographic location, etc.).  March, 2023
Concerns with the Standards were captured during in-person conferences in Asia, Europe and the United States March, April & June, 2023
CSEA members completed a survey to provide additional requests for changes May, 2023
Revision teams met and discussed all suggested changes received from the membership, as well as long-term industry trends that might result in a change to the Standards  Ongoing (beginning May, 2023)
The CSEA board reviewed initial proposals from the review teams to provide additional insight into major changes being considered June, 2023
A member survey was distributed to gather additional feedback about specific changes being considered December 2023
Additional feedback was requested during in-person conferences in Asia, Europe, and the United States regarding major changes being considered March, April, June 2024
The CSEA board reviewed all major changes being considered June, 2024
CSEA members received a survey to provide feedback about all major changes being considered. October, 2024
Standards revisions teams and the Standards Committee discussed member feedback and made edits to the proposed revisions. November - December 2024
A list of additional edits based on member feedback was distributed to members for final comments. January, 2025
Standards Revisions teams discussed additional member feedback about edits. February, 2025
A red-lined version of all sets of Standards that contains all major changes, as well as suggested language clarifications based on frequently asked questions from m embers was provided to the Standards Review Teams, Standards, Committee, and Board of Directors for final review and approval.  March, 2025
Visual edits were made to ensure the document is more readable April, 2025
Revised Standards were released to member schools, vendors, and the public April, 2025

 

Standards Review Teams

Full-time MBA
Claire Burgess, Cambridge Judge
Tracy Cheng CEIBS
Kay Dawson, University of Washington Foster School
Phil Han, UCLA Anderson
Amber Li CEIBS
Jeff McNish, Darden, University of Virginia
Diane Singel, Pepperdine University, Graziadio Business School
Paul Steven, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Kerri Tierney, MIT Sloan School of Management
Eva Valbuena, IE Business School
Megan Hendricks, CSEA Executive Director
Beth Ursin, CSEA Standards Consultant

Part-time MBA
Anne Cadigan Dunlap, Southern Methodist University
Kate Guerrero, California State University, Fullerton
Philip Heavilin, William & Mary
Lesley Kromer, Carnegie Mellon
Erin Reed, University of Houston, Bauer College of Business
Sandra Staub, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Kathi To, NYU Stern
Megan Hendricks, CSEA Executive Director
Beth Ursin, CSEA Standards Consultant

Specialty Masters
Lily Assgari, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
Gerard Cowan, U. British Columbia
Carola Dillinger, LBS
Stephen Glomb, University of Minnesota, Carlson School
Mitch Kam, UC San Diego Rady School
Joseph Kimes, Arizona State
Craig Petrus, University of Florida-Warrington College of Business
Kathleen Zhang, Shanghai School of Finance and Technology
Megan Hendricks, CSEA Executive Director
Beth Ursin, CSEA Standards Consultant

Standards Committee

Kay Dawson, Foster School of Business, UW
Kate Guerrero, California State University Fullerton
Robyne Hart, Kellogg School of Management - Northwestern University
Philip Heavilin II,  William & Mary
Mitchell Kam, UC San Diego Rady School of Management
DW Lee, NYU Stern Abu Dhabi
Nicole Mody ,Tuck School of Business
Diane Singel, Pepperdine University
Paul Steven, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Kerri Tierney, MIT Sloan
Brittany Tyree, McCombs School of Business


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