Advanced Degree Candidates
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Advanced Degree Candidates 


Advanced degree candidates (ADCs) are students pursuing a PhD, postdoc, JD, or MD, and also current residents and practicing physicians. If you are interested in a business career, we encourage you to explore opportunities at BCG.
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ADCs@BCG
Your fresh and distinct perspective is needed at BCG. You'll join a team of incredibly diverse backgrounds, where your intellectual curiosity, creativity, and problem-solving skills can make valuable contributions to client projects from day one. At BCG, you will continuously expand your areas of knowledge, enhance your skills, and advance your career in a way and at a pace unmatched by most other companies.

We will help you transition from the academic or scientific world through our on-the-job apprenticeship model, mentorship opportunities, and extensive training program. We offer customized training programs for non-business background consultants to ensure a strong foundation for a successful career in strategy consulting.

If you have any questions at all, don’t hesitate to reach out to ADC Recruiting team. If you are a UK advanced degree candidate, please learn more about our recruiting process and events here.

ADC Eligibility
Eligible degree programs and pathways include:
  1. PhDs
  2. Postdocs (including industry postdocs)
  3. JDs
  4. MDs, MD/MBAs, MD residents/fellows
  5. Practicing physicians
  6. Professors 
  7. Current non-MBA masters with a JD, MD, or PhD

Advanced Degree EventsWe invite you to learn more about BCG and consulting through our upcoming events for advanced degree candidates. These events allow you to meet our consultants and ask questions. We hope to see you there!

BCG Virtual ADC Information Session

December 4th, 2024 | 12:00PM ET
We invite you to join us for BCG’s virtual information session to learn about careers in consulting and hear directly from BCG consulting team members. Our presenters will share their experiences transitioning into consulting from academia.
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BCG Virtual ADC Panel Session

December 11th, 2024 | 12:00PM ET
Learn more about life at BCG firsthand from a panel of ADC consultants. We will cover topics such as training, our staffing model, and work life balance.
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Advanced Degree Application Process
BCG knows that advanced degree candidates bring a diverse skillset to our firm and thus can contribute to several different positions. We offer the following job opportunities for ADCs. Click on one of the three jobs below that interests you to learn more about the recruiting process. 

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Full-Time Consultants
Consultant Interns
BCG X Data Scientists

Full-Time Consultants
General consultants work on varied projects across topics and industries analyzing problems, discovering insights, delivering recommendations, and making change happen for our clients. We hire across all advanced degree backgrounds and concentrations.

The full-time application deadline has passed for the class of 2025.
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Consultant Interns
Our Greater China offices have now opened their PhD Internship application: Apply Here.

Our Canadian offices will be posting their PhD internship application shortly. Be sure to check back soon for updates!

If you are interested in our U.S. offices, we encourage you to check out our Bridge to BCG program.
BCG X Data Scientists
Data scientists design and build powerful, analytics-based solutions in order to help our clients tackle their business problems. BCG X hires candidates with advanced degrees with excellent academic achievements in specific fields such as computer science, applied mathematics, statistics, machine learning, deep learning, operations research, etc. BCG X also looks for relevant experience in data science and proficiency in Python.
Apply Here
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Additional Advanced Degree Opportunities
Explore additional opportunities we offer to advanced degree candidates below.
BCG Accelerate
BCG Accelerate is a tailored virtual info series for advanced degree candidates. Explore a career as a BCG consultant and gain essential skills and insights for success at BCG.
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Bridge to BCG Workshop
Bridge to BCG is an interactive workshop designed to help you test-drive the BCG project team experience. 
 
  
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MDs, Residents, Practicing Physicians at BCG
Learn more about how we recruit and support incoming medical candidates to BCG.
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