U.S.News原文：

Pressing pause on your career to enroll in a full-time M.B.A. program is by no means a simple, or cheap, task. The majority of M.B.A. students desire to use their degree as a springboard that will propel them through the corporate ranks in their desired profession. Yet, no matter how lofty one's long-term goals may be, the ability to generate an immediate return on such a significant investment of time and money by quickly landing a job is equally important. 

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M.B.A. graduates have typically had a high level of success finding work, and U.S. News's own data indicates that the hiring market for business graduates is improving after enduring a lull throughout the recent recession. Examining a business program's job placement rates within three months of graduation is an effective means of discerning whether your diligent work will pay off in the near term. 

For context, an average of 73 percent of 2010 business school graduates found jobs within three months of graduation among the 141 business programs that provided the figure to U.S. News. 

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In all, 16 schools reported that at least 90 percent of their graduates found employment within three months. Conversely, 15 schools reported that less than half of their students were able to find a job three months after graduating. 

Among the top 10 schools on the job placement list, six business programs placed in the top 50 of U.S. News's rankings of Best Business Schools, including the seventh-ranked Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business, the 25th-ranked Ohio State University Fisher College of Business, and the 28th-ranked University of California—Davis Graduate School of Management. Abilene Christian University reported the highest three-month job placement figure—97.1 percent—yet the school is ranked 107th.