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3. Asizzling1 market for M.B.A’s in the U.S While young teches weighing B-school against immediate opportunity might logically question the value of an M.B.A., placement officials and corporate hiring chiefs say demand for the credential2 is as robust3 as ever, in high technology as well as consulting and finance. “ It’ s a great market for M.B.A.’ s,” says Ilse Evans, director of career services at the University of California Berkeley’ s Haas School of Business, whose graduates typically enjoy multiple4 offers. “ Eighty percent of the second-year students at the University of Virginia returned to campus last fall with job offers already in hand,” says the astonished B-school dean, Edward Snyder. So intense is the pressure on students to accept--many companies dangle5 “ exploding” bonuses that disappear after a certain time--that the University of Chicago last fall sent a letter to employers insisting that M.B.A. students be allowed six weeks to mull6 an offer. But the reality is that corporate America is hungry for managers with technical, marketing, and finance expertise and the know-how to motivate people. “ Using the Wharton name opened an infinite7 number of doors,” says Gary Orenstein, 31, who graduated in 1997 and is now director of marketing for Nishan Systems Inc., a starting data networking company in San Jose, Calif. The number of Wharton grads entering venture capital8 firms more than double between 1998 and 1999, and 19 percent of the class of 2000 have accepted jobs with high-tech firms. Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to hire 40 to 50 M.B.A.’ s this spring to fill slots9 in finance, marketing, and operations--about the same number it has hired in each of the past several years, says John Featherstone, director of corporate employment. And “ the biggest market” for tech-savvy10 M.B.A.’ s is now the Fortune 500: companies like FedEx, GTE, and Citibank that are aggressively preparing to deal online with both consumers and suppliers.A growing number are h