We offer various meaningful opportunities based on your degree level and the office you’re interested in joining. Take a look at the consulting roles we usually recruit for from campus below. For a full view of all open opportunities, visit our careers page.

Short Role Descriptions

Associate: As part of a client service team, you’ll lead a workstream to solve some of the toughest challenges our clients face. Through deep analysis, innovation, and problem-solving, you’ll develop actionable plans and solutions, refine strategies, and implement transformations, driving long-term impact.

Associate Intern: You’ll join a client service team for 8-10 weeks, helping tackle complex challenges and implement lasting, high-impact solutions. Working alongside clients and other McKinsey colleagues, you’ll help uncover the true challenges behind a client’s strategy and create actionable plans that drive real change.

Business Analyst: As part of a client service team, you’ll partner with top organizations to solve complex challenges and deliver lasting impact. Through data analysis, research, and collaboration with clients and colleagues, you’ll generate fresh insights and breakthrough solutions that drive transformation and empower clients to sustain progress beyond your engagement.

Business Analyst Intern: You’ll join a client service team for 8-10 weeks to help top organizations solve complex challenges. Working alongside clients and other McKinsey colleagues, you’ll combine research, analyzing data, interviews, and brainstorming to generate fresh insights and breakthrough solutions.

Fellow Intern: You will join a client service team for 8-10 weeks to help top organizations solve complex challenges. Working alongside clients and other McKinsey colleagues, you’ll combine research, analyzing data, interviews, and brainstorming to generate fresh insights and breakthrough solutions.

Junior Associate: You’ll lead a workstream within a client service team, partnering with top organizations to solve complex business challenges and drive meaningful, long-term change. Through close collaboration with clients and colleagues, you’ll conduct research, analyze data, and develop actionable strategies that deliver sustainable impact across industries.

Location-Specific Roles

Analyst (Latin America only): As part of the leadership development program, you’ll join a client service team for 12-24 months to tackle complex challenges our clients face and gain hands-on experience across industries and functions. Through a blend of formal training, mentoring, and client-facing work, you’ll build problem-solving skills, contribute to impactful projects, and grow into a future leader.

Consultant (Finland only): You’ll lead a workstream within a client service team, partnering with influential organizations to solve their most pressing challenges and deliver lasting impact. Through in-depth analysis, strategic planning, and close collaboration with clients and colleagues, you’ll develop innovative solutions that drive meaningful, long-term change.

Consulting Analyst (Southeast Asia only): You’ll join a client service team of typically 3-5 consultants to identify, and oftentimes implement, potential solutions for complex client challenges. You’ll gather and analyze information, formulate and test hypotheses, and develop and implement recommendations, presenting results to clients.

Digital Associate (Switzerland, Australia & New Zealand only): You’ll lead a workstream on a client service team to drive end-to-end digital transformations, drawing on McKinsey’s full range of digital capabilities and helping organizations reinvent their core business through technology, strategy, and operations.

Fellow (Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands): As part of a client service team, you’ll help solve complex challenges across sectors, engaging in everything from research and data analysis to presenting recommendations and implementing solutions with clients, delivering meaningful, long-term impact.

Fellow Associate (Brazil only): You’ll lead a workstream within a client service team, partnering with top organizations to solve complex challenges and deliver long-term impact. Through hands-on collaboration, data-driven analysis, and strategic planning, you’ll help clients uncover core challenges, implement transformative solutions, and sustain meaningful change.

Fellow Digital (Switzerland only): As part of a client service team, you’ll help drive end-to-end digital transformations, drawing on our full range of digital capabilities and helping organizations reinvent their core business through technology, strategy, and operations.

First Nations Internship (for those who identify as First Nations; Australia only): You’ll join a client service team for an 8-week internship, owning a distinct piece of work while helping solve complex challenges across sectors. Alongside hands-on consulting experience, you’ll receive tailored coaching, mentorship, and development support.

Implementation Associate (Australia & New Zealand only): You’ll help clients execute and sustain transformative changes by building strategies, capabilities, and processes that deliver measurable, lasting results. And you’ll guide clients from strategy through execution—managing projects, analyzing impact, and coaching teams to embed change.

Implementation Coach (India only): You’ll work directly with clients to drive complex operational improvements in areas like margin transformation, sourcing strategy, and product cost optimization. You’ll also contribute to building firm-wide knowledge while helping clients achieve sustainable, high-impact change from strategy through execution.

Junior Business Analyst (Brazil only): You’ll join a client service team to tackle complex business challenges through research, analysis, and strategic problem-solving. Over the 6-24-month program, you’ll benefit from robust training, mentorship, and development opportunities designed to grow your leadership skills and prepare you for a future role as a business analyst.

Junior Fellow (Austria and Germany only): As part of a client service team, you’ll take ownership of a project workstream, helping top organizations solve critical challenges and drive long-term change. Working directly on site with clients and alongside McKinsey colleagues, you’ll conduct research, analyze data, and develop actionable solutions that deliver lasting impact.

Māori & Pasifika Internship (for those who identify as Māori & Pasifika; New Zealand only): You’ll join a client service team for 4-8 weeks, taking ownership of a project component and helping solve complex business challenges. Through hands-on consulting experience, personalized coaching, and the opportunity to earn a scholarship, you’ll develop your skills, build your network, and explore a pathway to a full-time role.

Sophomore Summer Business Analyst (US and Canada only): You’ll spend 8-10 weeks working on a client service team, contributing to impactful workstreams that address complex challenges for top organizations. You’ll conduct research, analyze data, and develop actionable solutions that drive lasting transformation and meaningful change.

Women’s Internship (Switzerland, Australia & New Zealand only): You’ll join a client service team, owning a key part of the engagement and helping our clients solve complex challenges across sectors. Through hands-on consulting experience, mentorship, and collaboration with experts, you’ll develop valuable skills and have the opportunity to earn a scholarship.

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