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MBA graduates are increasingly grappling with AI disruption and reduced corporate hiring getty AI is eliminating many entry-level jobs, and that also applies even to older graduates with advanced degrees. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that one in five Duke MBAs were still job-hunting three months after graduation—up dramatically from just 5% in 2019. Having earned my MBA not long ago, I find myself asking: if AI is supposedly replacing junior workers while companies still need experienced strategic thinkers, why are the most credentialed candidates in the pipeline stuck in limbo? AI isn’t the enemy here. Uncertainty is. The MBA job market has gone cold. Unemployment rates three months after graduation have surged at top programs: 21% at Duke Fuqua, 25% at Georgetown McDonough, 15% at Michigan Ross. Even Harvard Business School graduates are not sailing through the recruiting cycle as smoothly. These figures understate the problem. Business school career offices track employment outcomes at the three-month mark, but don’t capture graduates who landed jobs and were subsequently laid off, a common fate in a year marked by rolling white-collar cuts. For some MBA graduates I know, they have postponed having a child not because they don’t want one, but because the job market won’t let them plan that far ahead. That’s what uncertainty does. It doesn’t just delay careers. It delays life. The MBA was supposed to be a calculated bet. Spend two years and six figures to accelerate into high-six-figure roles. The math made sense when hiring was predictable. It makes less sense when companies freeze headcount and instead wait for clarity on how AI will reshape their organizational charts. The Job Market Winter Is Here AI supposedly threatens routine workers while empowering strategic thinkers. Previously, I argued that when AI handles grunt work, companies no…

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Filed under: News - @ January 27, 2026 8:27 pm