The 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs finds that more graduates head to the consulting industry than any other. The financial services industry is a close second. Total hired in consulting: 3,182 B-School graduates.
| School | Number of hires | Share of hires | Median salary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INSEAD | 344 | 48% | $108,200 | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 170 | 28% | $147,500 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 160 | 33% | $147,000 | |
| Harvard | 146 | 23% | $150,000 | |
| Columbia | 134 | 26% | $147,000 | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 127 | 33% | $147,000 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 119 | 33% | $140,000 | |
| London Business School | 114 | 38% | $111,141 | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 104 | 33% | $144,500 | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 103 | 32% | $147,000 | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 93 | 34% | $147,000 | |
| Yale | 89 | 36% | $140,000 | |
| NYU (Stern) | 82 | 26% | $140,000 | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 79 | 33% | $147,000 | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 60 | 25% | $140,000 | |
| IESE Business School | 59 | 27% | $97,024 | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 58 | 21% | $140,000 | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 54 | 28% | $125,000 | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 49 | 26% | $140,000 | |
| Stanford | 46 | 20% | $147,000 | |
| UT at Austin (McCombs) | 43 | 20% | $140,000 | |
| IE | 43 | 14% | $86,735 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 42 | 22% | $95,954 | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 38 | 33% | $140,000 | |
| USC (Marshall) | 34 | 21% | $135,000 | |
| Western (Ivey) | 33 | 26% | $74,389 | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 33 | 23% | $140,000 | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 31 | 20% | $140,000 | |
| HEC Paris | 27 | 18% | $112,400 | |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 27 | 12% | $120,000 | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 25 | 18% | $135,000 | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 22 | 21% | $142,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 22 | 19% | $93,583 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 19 | 18% | $118,500 | |
| Washington (Foster) | 19 | 18% | $140,000 | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 19 | 36% | $100,000 | |
| Rice (Jones) | 19 | 20% | $135,000 | |
| ESADE | 18 | 19% | $79,747 | |
| Hult | 17 | 7% | $75,362 | |
| EAE (Madrid) | 17 | 11% | $59,150 | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 16 | 31% | $90,000 | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 15 | 20% | $113,500 | |
| Melbourne | 15 | 41% | $97,890 | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 14 | 15% | $100,000 | |
| IMD | 13 | 21% | $116,388 | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 12 | 22% | $93,000 | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 12 | 19% | $115,000 | |
| SDA Bocconi | 12 | 17% | $133,889 | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 11 | 12% | $127,500 | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 10 | 15% | $137,500 | |
| Mannheim | 10 | 26% | $109,216 | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 10 | 19% | $125,000 | |
| Imperial College of London | 10 | 28% | $72,527 | |
| Manchester | 9 | 15% | $59,311 | |
| George Washington | 9 | 17% | $92,500 | |
| Auburn (Harbert) | 9 | 39% | $60,750 | |
| ESMT Berlin | 9 | 23% | $70,000 | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 8 | 22% | $80,000 | |
| CEIBS | 8 | 5% | $73,660 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 8 | 15% | $72,186 | |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 8 | 15% | $92,200 | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 7 | 16% | $120,000 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 7 | 8% | $95,000 | |
| City, University of London (Cass) | 7 | 21% | $51,475 | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 7 | 12% | $137,750 | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 7 | 15% | $100,000 | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 6 | 15% | $61,000 | |
| Rutgers | 6 | 13% | $110,250 | |
| National University of Singapore | 6 | 9% | $57,590 | |
| Tampa (Sykes) | 6 | 12% | $52,500 | |
| Cranfield | 6 | 18% | $25,830 | |
| ESIC | 6 | 17% | $103,000 | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 5 | 9% | $107,500 | |
| SUNY University at Buffalo | 5 | 7% | $60,500 | |
| HKUST | 5 | 8% | $76,440 | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 5 | 9% | $115,000 | |
| Arizona (Eller) | 5 | 24% | $72,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 5 | 19% | $92,000 | |
| American (Kogod) | 5 | 33% | $93,000 | |
| Florida (Hough) | 5 | 11% | $120,000 | |
| HEC Montreal | 4 | 13% | $71,204 | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 4 | 8% | $97,500 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 4 | 6% | $115,000 | |
| Ryerson (Rogers) | 4 | 11% | $59,600 | |
| Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 4 | 9% | $90,000 | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 8% | $132,500 | |
| Houston (Bauer) | 4 | 19% | $65,500 | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 4 | 9% | $87,500 | |
| San Diego State (Fowler) | 4 | 13% | $42,000 | |
| Alberta | 3 | 5% | Not available | |
| San Diego | 3 | 15% | $63,333 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 3 | 3% | $80,000 | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 3 | 12% | Not available | |
| Bentley | 3 | 8% | Not available | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 3 | 2% | $110,000 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 3 | 8% | $73,000 | |
| Connecticut | 3 | 15% | $108,000 | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 3 | 7% | $90,000 | |
| North Carolina State (Poole) | 3 | 10% | $68,000 | |
| Missouri (Trulaske) | 3 | 8% | $70,000 | |
| Howard | 3 | 14% | $122,500 | |
| Mississippi | 3 | 9% | $50,000 | |
| Miami | 3 | 7% | Not available | |
| UT at Dallas (Jindal) | 2 | 7% | Not available | |
| South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 2 | 8% | Not available | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 2 | 6% | Not available | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 2 | 10% | Not available | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 2 | 6% | Not available | |
| Wisconsin | 2 | 3% | Not available | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 2 | 6% | Not available | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 2 | 5% | Not available | |
| UC at Davis | 2 | 6% | Not available | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Florida International (Chapman) | 1 | 50% | Not available | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 1 | 4% | Not available | |
| Hofstra (Zarb) | 1 | 13% | Not available | |
| Oregon (Lundquist) | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| Texas Tech (Rawls) | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| UC at San Diego (Rady) | 1 | 6% | Not available | |
| Copenhagen | 1 | 5% | Not available | |