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Advanced Degrees

Do you have an advanced degree — a PhD, a JD, or an MD, or simply a background in natural or social science? Then you should consider applying to BCG. With your intellectual curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills, you will be able to make valuable contributions to client projects from day one.

Additionally, at BCG, you will be given unlimited opportunities to continuously expand your areas of knowledge, enhance your skills, and advance your career in a way and at a pace unmatched by most other companies.

Diverse Viewpoints Create Value

We are convinced that conventional approaches will only rarely get our clients where they need to be. We have seen many times how creative thinking and out-of-the-box solutions for our clients' toughest business problems require a combination of different viewpoints, angles, and perspectives.

As a consultant with an advanced degree, you will enrich project teams with your own fresh and distinct perspective. And with your desire for new challenges and your unmatched ability to come up with innovative ideas, you will provide clients with thoughtful approaches of the highest caliber and solutions tailored to their organization and challenges.

For example, we often find ourselves working for clients whose business is closely linked to one or the other natural science. Having a real understanding of the underlying science helps us execute the right analysis and propose viable solutions, while also establishing our credibility with the client.

There is no doubt that a chemist's understanding of the value chain in a health care concern is different from that of a business major, that a physicist looks from his own angle at the automotive industry, and that a mathematician approaches risk-assessment topics from a particularly sound angle.

Social sciences have become more important than ever before in today's era of globalization. Who could better understand what it takes to create and maintain competitive advantage for a global company than a social scientist? For a company that has decided to enter a new market, a sociologist can deliver insights nobody else is able to provide. The turnaround of an entire company culture is a process that requires extensive expertise in psychology and, at times, anthropology.

One of BCG's most accomplished experts on change processes became the expert she is through her study of philosophy after a career as a mathematician. At BCG, you can choose to surprise those around you-and maybe even yourself.

For BCG, a Fresh Perspective and Valuable Skills

We have found that candidates who have spent significant time in academia or working in scientific fields have reached a particularly high level of proficiency in competencies and skills-such as problem solving and analysis-that are critical to consulting.

Thus, compared with others just starting at BCG, you will embark on your BCG career with a deeper understanding of the major pillars of the consulting process: thinking through complex problems, finding new analytical approaches to answering questions for which no standard solution exists, formulating and testing hypotheses, thinking through your assumptions in a structured way, and generating insights from your analysis and distilling recommendations.

For You, a Unique Growth Opportunity

At BCG, you will work with people who possess incredibly diverse backgrounds, which also means that you will have unparalleled opportunities for personal and professional growth. You will have the opportunity to have a positive impact on multiple clients across many industries and business functions.

In all projects, you will have the chance to brainstorm with top-notch executives, as well as with the highly talented members of your BCG teams. You will learn from people with different backgrounds while enhancing your intellectual leadership and ability to credibly communicate with and inspire audiences in fields outside your area of specialization. Through this experience, working at BCG will build bridges for you and open up additional paths, no matter where your interests guide you.

Furthermore, we encourage you to grow beyond your area of expertise. Our on-the-job apprenticeship model, as well as our extensive training and mentorship programs, will help you transition from the academic or scientific environment into the consulting world. We tailor training programs for consultants without a business background to provide a strong foundation for professional strategy consulting.

In addition, the BCG culture of collaboration and our open-door policy mean that you will always have someone to talk with about your project, the BCG culture and work dynamic, or your experience at BCG.

At BCG, there is no single path to success, so you can focus on what is most interesting to you and achieve your personal and professional goals. If you are interested in leveraging your skills and growing personally and professionally in a global, fast-paced, team-oriented environment, BCG is the right place for you.

BCG has offered me the perfect setting to apply all the skills I worked so many years to develop in graduate school.

Casey
Principal, Houston

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