US Business School Grads Seek Work Abroad

Exports of American business school graduates are soaring as the recession turns grads away from the traditional path to Wall Street. Taking a post abroad generally means a lower salary, but grads from some of the country's top business schools say the career boost from working in thriving foreign economies can more than make up for it, Newsweek reports.

Analysts believe the shift toward work abroad for more business school grads is likely to be a permanent one as emerging markets gain a greater share of the world economy. "It definitely feels like it's not a temporary hiccup," said the director of MBA Career Management at Wharton, where 25% of recent grads are working abroad. "The students feel like that's where the action is." (More MBA stories.)