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Undergraduate Program

Undergraduate Degree Candidates

Consultants at McKinsey play an active role in many aspects of client engagements, including fact gathering, analysis, client communications, making recommendations, and implementation. Undergraduates typically join us as business analysts or fellows as an integral part of our client service teams.

Some stay for 2 or 3 years before attending graduate school or gaining further work experience, others stay on and move directly into a post-graduate school role. In the Business Analyst or Fellow role you will collaborate with senior consultants, client managers, and executives on every part of the consulting process, from brainstorming ideas to working side-by-side with clients to implement team recommendations.

You can join McKinsey with or without an alignment to a specific type of work. Generalists are not aligned to any specific function or industry and typically work on a variety of projects. Practice consultants join a functional group (such as digital, marketing and sales, operations, etc.) and dedicate most of their work to this focus.

In a tech role at McKinsey, including Software Engineers, Data Engineers and Data Scientists, you’ll be part of an agile, close-knit team dedicated to helping you and your team perform at your best.  Working with McKinsey’s clients -- some of the world’s most innovative and influential organizations -- you’ll develop our analytics, data, and management products, collaborating with consultants to apply them in our client work.

Recruiting team

Class of ‘20

Ari Brathwaite

Recruiting Co-Lead
Class of ’06

Jan Shelley Brown

Partner Co-Lead

Erika Love

Lead Recruiter

Jordan Watters

Recruiter

Meet McKinsey’s Affinity Networks

At McKinsey, we are passionate advocates of diversity, equity, and inclusion, both at our firm and across the globe. We have more than 20 internal affinity networks, resource groups, and communities to support our colleagues with shared backgrounds and experiences. We are pleased to invite you to join events hosted by several of these networks.

McKinsey presents me with the opportunity to drive impact across a wide range of industries, topics, and geographies, all while working with a diverse and talented group of colleagues. Similarly to Howard, the Firm constantly challenges me, and enables me to grow personally and professionally.

Ari Brathwaite, Business Analyst, Howard Economics ‘20

Campus Calendar

Class of
Jan 01 2023
Jun 01 2023

Connect with McKinsey

January 01 – June 01

The Connect with McKinsey program is available during the winter and spring months of the year and is designed to help students across North America in undergraduate and non-MBA master’s programs create early connections with our colleagues and learn more about our recruiting process for full-time and internship roles starting in 2024.

Being a part of Connect with McKinsey will allow us to better understand your background and the locations, practices, and type of work you are most interested in. Connect with McKinsey participants will receive invitations to recruiting events, newsletters with recruiting resources, priority access to our application launch and deadline dates, and consideration for our professional development and leadership programs.

Mar 27 2023

Warmup: Meet McKinsey and HBCU Alumni

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Are you ready to warmup and connect with some of the best consultants in the game? If so, join McKinsey’s HBCU Recruiting team for a meet and greet with our HBCU Alumni and learn more about our firm. This event will feature highlight reels of what consulting is, who we are at McKinsey, a peek into our culture, and the opportunities that exist within the firm.
Mar 28 2023

1st Half: Make an easy layup with your resume

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Join the HBCU Recruiting team to learn how to craft the resume that helps you stand out in the recruiting process. This session will give you helpful tips and tricks to help you score an easy layup.
Mar 29 2023

2nd Half: How to Slam Dunk the Case Interview

6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Curious about how to excel in the case interview? Looking to sharpen your casing skills? Join our HBCU Recruiting Team for the playbook on case interviewing for a job or internship at McKinsey. This workshop will walk you through navigating challenging cases.
Mar 30 2023

Overtime: How to score a game-winning PEI

6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Are you familiar with McKinsey’s Personal Experience Interview (PEI)? If not, this workshop will inform you on how to prepare for PEI. Join us to learn what it takes to score the game-winning shot for PEI.
Mar 30 2023

Info Session – Inside the McKinsey Team Room

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Tired of the same old information sessions? So are we! Of course, you’ll learn the basics about being a Business Analyst. But then you’ll take a peek inside a McKinsey team room to see how our business analysts, associates, data scientists, software-cloud engineers, agile coaches, data engineers, product managers, designers, and digital marketers work together to help our clients, some of the world’s most innovative and influential organizations, perform at their best.
Mar 31 2023

Final Buzzer: Chat with our Consultants

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Are you looking to learn more about the transition from an HBCU into consulting? Curious about a day in the life of a consultant? Want to discover the different opportunities at the firm? Looking to network? Then come chat with our consultants as we end HBCU March Mania. You can use this extra time to learn about their journey to McKinsey, and how you can join, too.
Apr 03 2023

Exploration Month - Choosing your McKinsey Office

Need help narrowing down which offices you'd like to apply for? Would you prefer a larger office or a smaller office? Would you like to live by nature or in a bigger city? Join our Exploration Month opening session "Choosing your McKinsey Office" where we'll cover these topics and help you narrow down which sessions you should prioritize this month!

Apr 04 2023

McKinsey Practice Spotlight

This time is to educate undergraduate students on multiple different practices McKinsey has.

Apr 06 2023
Jun 01 2023

Global Energy & Materials Office Hours - North America (Campus Applicants)

April 06 – June 01 EST | This is a virtual event.

These informal sessions are designed to help interested applicants, coming directly from campus, learn more about the Global Energy & Materials (GEM) practice within North America. If you are an undergraduate or graduate (non-MBA) student, interested in Chemicals, Agriculture, Basic Materials, Oil & Gas, or Electric Power & Natural Gas, come learn more! GEM work makes up over 18% of our Firm’s work, and we are excited to answer your questions about GEM.

This event is geared toward applicants wishing to join a North American office.

Apr 19 2023

Global Energy & Materials Office Hours - North America (Campus Applicants)

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM EST | This is a virtual event.

These informal sessions are designed to help interested applicants, coming directly from campus, learn more about the Global Energy & Materials (GEM) practice within North America. If you are an undergraduate or graduate (non-MBA) student, interested in Chemicals, Agriculture, Basic Materials, Oil & Gas, or Electric Power & Natural Gas, come learn more! GEM work makes up over 18% of our Firm’s work, and we are excited to answer your questions about GEM.

This event is geared toward applicants wishing to join a North American office.

May 03 2023

Info Session – Inside the McKinsey Team Room

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Tired of the same old information sessions? So are we! Of course, you’ll learn the basics about being a Business Analyst. But then you’ll take a peek inside a McKinsey team room to see how our business analysts, associates, data scientists, software-cloud engineers, agile coaches, data engineers, product managers, designers, and digital marketers work together to help our clients, some of the world’s most innovative and influential organizations, perform at their best.
May 09 2023

Make Your Own McKinsey: Sustainability

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
McKinsey is “in the arena” with our clients, and wants to be a leading catalyst for global decarbonization. We’re working to help all industry sectors transform to reach net zero by 2050, balanced with other sustainability goals and tailored to regional contexts. We do this by leveraging our thought leadership, innovative tools and solutions, top talent, and a vibrant ecosystem of industry associations and knowledge platforms focused on innovating to net zero. In this virtual session you’ll hear from our consultants about their work on issues related to sustainability. You’ll also learn ways that you can get involved with the Sustainability Practice after you join.
May 10 2023

A Day in the Life of a BA

7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Still stumped as to what a McKinsey consultant actually does? Curious what a day in the life of a Business Analyst looks like? Join us to learn more about the day in the life of a BA at McKinsey. You will hear from McKinsey consultants as they share about their own recruiting journeys, transition to their role, and navigating the Firm.

Opportunities for Undergraduate Degree Candidates

Our roles include generalist consulting; practice consulting, focused on a specific function or industry (such as digital, marketing and sales, and operations); and tech roles, including software engineers, data scientists, among other positions.

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