There are two different questions people often collapse into one:
- What resources does LBS give students who want consulting?
- How good is the consulting job market right now?
The first is well documented. The second is much murkier.
The Consulting Club is more than a mailing list
Ishaan Sharma (MBA2026), who came to LBS after six years at McKinsey, describes a fairly structured preparation system: case workshops, coaching, peer mentorship, alumni mentorship, firm events, panels and case competitions.
He also describes competitions involving firms such as BCG, Strategy&, Visa Consulting & Analytics and McKinsey, plus a peer-mentorship system built around case preparation. The current public Consulting Club materials line up with that, emphasizing interview guides, case books, firm events and peer-led preparation. (There’s more on what LBS clubs add more broadly.)
Peer leaders appear repeatedly in student accounts
An earlier but detailed account from Shivani Rajagopal (MBA2025) describes students chasing CV reviews, cover-letter feedback, interview shortlists and case partners as recruiting intensified.
She specifically credits second-year peer leaders and repeated case practice with helping her prepare.
Her account also includes something school marketing understandably does not emphasize: some people in her cohort got the consulting outcome they wanted, and many did not.
That is one student’s observation from the MBA2025 recruiting cycle, not an offer-rate statistic. But it is useful context for how demanding the process can feel.
The Career Centre sits alongside the club and peers
LBS’s broader Career Impact information describes structured MBA recruiting as visible and predictable but highly competitive, with direct-hire recruiting operating more flexibly through networking.
In student accounts, Career Centre support shows up through CV and cover-letter review, coaching, sector advice and employer access, while the Consulting Club and peer network do much of the repeated case practice.
The division of labor makes intuitive sense. The school helps students understand the market and get ready for recruiting; classmates provide the sheer volume of practice needed to get good at cases.
What do the outcomes tell us?
The latest published flagship MBA results are positive at an aggregate level. LBS reported that 88% of MBA2025 graduates received an offer within three months and 86% accepted one. Among graduates accepting jobs, 40% went into consulting. Employers included Bain, BCG, McKinsey, Deloitte and Accenture.
But those numbers do not answer several questions applicants are asking right now:
- How many students targeted consulting in the first place?
- How many received MBB offers?
- How did international career switchers do?
- What happened specifically in the MBA2026 recruiting cycle?
- How much did UK sponsorship needs affect outcomes?
LBS hasn’t published consulting-specific outcomes for the MBA2026 or MBA2027 recruiting cycles, so those questions are best answered by the people who went through them.
Recruited for consulting from LBS? Tell us about your cycle
If you’re an MBA2026 graduate or MBA2027 student, reply below:
- Which consulting offices and firms recruited actively at LBS in your cycle?
- Roughly when did internship and full-time applications open?
- How many interviews did you receive?
- If you needed UK sponsorship, did that materially narrow your options?
- How useful were peer leaders, the Consulting Club and Career Centre relative to each other?
- If consulting did not work out, where did you pivot?
Please include your recruiting year. This is one of the fastest-changing parts of the MBA.