Consulting Recruiting at the University of Richmond
Why Richmond matters for consulting
Richmond is a small liberal arts university in Richmond, VA. Its Robins School of Business offers a Management Consulting concentration. Career Services runs a consulting community page and points students straight to Management Consulted. The class is small, so firms won’t fill a campus pipeline for you. You’ll need to drive your own networking.
Consulting placement
Primary field of employment: The university’s one-year-out survey of 2025 graduates (32% response rate) puts consulting at about 8% of respondents. Earlier classes ranged from 7% to 11%: 10% for 2021, 7% for 2022, and 11% for 2023.
Employers: Richmond’s Class of 2025 employers sample includes these consulting and advisory firms:
- Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC
- McKinsey & Company
- FTI Consulting
- Berkeley Research Group
- KCIC
- AlphaSights and Guidepoint
94% of Class of 2025 graduates seeking employment were employed within one year.
Consulting clubs
Lakeside Consulting Group (LCG) is the main consulting club. Its stated goal is to make consulting accessible across campus and prepare students for consulting recruitment and internships. Members get regular meetings to prepare for interviews and gain experience through consulting engagements. Its official page lists 187 members and 27 events.
Delta Sigma Pi – Rho Omega, a professional business fraternity, is on Career Services’ list of consulting-related organizations. The other organizations listed are the Association of Consultants to Nonprofits, the American Association of Political Consultants, and the Robins School Student Government Association.
In class, the Management Consulting concentration includes MGMT 250 Introduction to Consulting and MGMT 450 Consulting Process and Practicum, both of which must be taken at Robins. MGMT 450 is aimed at top seniors and includes a team project for a local organization. It requires Business School senior standing.
Career Services support
Beth Chancy is the career advisor whose focus includes consulting. Book through Handshake, or drop in at Tyler Haynes Commons Suite 306 (weekdays, 2–4 p.m.) or Robins Suite 101 (Mondays and Thursdays, 2–4 p.m.).
The consulting page recommends:
- Management Consulted: Sign up with your richmond.edu email. Richmond’s page links the case library, practice cases, Consulting Application Deadlines, the firm directory, and case competitions.
- Case prep:Â A case interviewing handout and practice cases. The page notes MBB and other top firms may use case or cognitive ability interviews.
- Vault Guides for researching firms.
- Employer experiences: The page lists virtual experiences with PwC, BCG, and Oliver Wyman.
- Funding: Every undergraduate can receive up to $5,300 for an unpaid or underpaid summer internship through the Richmond Guarantee.
Recruiting timeline
Richmond’s guidance is that deadlines vary by firm. For early-career undergraduates, consulting deadlines fall between March and October. Sophomore programs can start as early as September and run through April for some companies. Strategy and management consulting firms may recruit up to a year in advance. Consulting recruiters often turn to summer interns to fill most full-time openings.
Richmond’s spring Job, Internship & Graduate School Fair was on February 24 in 2026.
