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Extracted Content: Those are just a few reasons why the popularity of consulting has exploded in top graduate business schools. Exhibit A: Columbia Business School. A decade ago, less than a quarter of its MBA graduates chose consulting to start. Today, that number is 33%. Over that same period that percentage has jumped by 20% and 9.5% at Yale SOM and Chicago Booth respectively. In fact, consulting accounts for a third of hires at nine Top 20 programs in the United States.

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