Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Michigan State University’s Broad school graduates who went into the consulting industry right after graduation earned a median salary of $152,500, highest of any school in the 2019-20 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA students. At $151,400, graduates of Stanford posted the second-highest compensation. INSEAD sent 306 graduates into consulting, most of any school. The highest percentage of graduates who took jobs at consulting companies of any school in the ranking also came from INSEAD, 46.2%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Michigan State (Broad) | 7 | 13.5% | $152,500 | Not applicable |
| | Stanford | 46 | 17.8% | $151,400 | Not applicable |
| | Chicago (Booth) | 145 | 31.0% | $150,000 | Not applicable |
| | Harvard | 153 | 24.7% | $150,000 | Not applicable |
| | Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 149 | 24.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable |
| | Columbia | 125 | 26.3% | $147,000 | Not applicable |
| | Dartmouth (Tuck) | 67 | 29.5% | $147,000 | Not applicable |
| | MIT (Sloan) | 91 | 31.7% | $147,000 | Not applicable |
| | Michigan (Ross) | 100 | 30.1% | $147,000 | Not applicable |
| | NYU (Stern) | 93 | 28.4% | $147,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northwestern (Kellogg) | 122 | 31.3% | $147,000 | Not applicable |
| | Virginia (Darden) | 94 | 31.5% | $147,000 | Not applicable |
| | Yale | 89 | 34.9% | $145,000 | Not applicable |
| | Cornell (Johnson) | 51 | 21.9% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | Duke (Fuqua) | 109 | 30.3% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | Emory (Goizueta) | 47 | 35.3% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 15 | 15.2% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | Rice (Jones) | 13 | 15.1% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 39 | 18.3% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | UCLA (Anderson) | 56 | 20.4% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 13 | 14.9% | $140,000 | Not applicable |
| | Minnesota (Carlson) | 19 | 25.3% | $138,250 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 44 | 24.0% | $137,500 | Not applicable |
| | Boston College (Carroll) | 8 | 15.4% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Brigham Young (Marriott) | 10 | 8.0% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 40 | 23.1% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgetown (McDonough) | 54 | 25.5% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Indiana (Kelley) | 28 | 18.4% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Ohio State (Fisher) | 9 | 12.2% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Southern Methodist (Cox) | 9 | 12.2% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | USC (Marshall) | 48 | 29.8% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Vanderbilt (Owen) | 31 | 24.8% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington (Foster) | 16 | 14.4% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 37 | 15.1% | $132,500 | Not applicable |
| | Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 17 | 24.6% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | St. Gallen | 7 | 18.4% | $125,168 | CHF 124,367 |
| | SDA Bocconi | 17 | 23.9% | $122,896 | €108,450 |
| | Penn State (Smeal) | 6 | 14.0% | $121,333 | Not applicable |
| | Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 4 | 8.2% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
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| | Texas A&M (Mays) | 9 | 17.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | HEC Paris | 41 | 21.2% | $117,810 | Not applicable |
| | Florida (Hough) | 4 | 9.1% | $117,500 | Not applicable |
| | Maryland (Smith) | 14 | 20.3% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Miami | 3 | 8.1% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | IMD | 13 | 21.7% | $114,790 | Not applicable |
| | INSEAD | 306 | 46.2% | $113,400 | Not applicable |
| | George Washington | 12 | 24.0% | $110,500 | Not applicable |
| | Arizona State (Carey) | 5 | 5.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Boston University (Questrom) | 18 | 17.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 6 | 11.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | London Business School | 98 | 32.3% | $107,688 | £84,000 |
| | Cambridge (Judge) | 25 | 22.1% | $103,842 | £81,000 |
| | Mannheim | 9 | 22.5% | $103,440 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Irvine (Merage) | 4 | 8.7% | $102,500 | Not applicable |
| | Babson (Olin) | 10 | 10.5% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Oxford (Saïd) | 37 | 22.7% | $97,790 | Not applicable |
| | Politecnico di Milano | 6 | 15.8% | $97,455 | €86,000 |
| | IE | 34 | 14.0% | $97,234 | €85,805 |
| | Rutgers | 10 | 14.5% | $97,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at San Diego (Rady) | 3 | 13.0% | $96,165 | Not applicable |
| | Rochester (Simon) | 6 | 7.1% | $92,500 | Not applicable |
| | IESE Business School | 76 | 29.0% | $92,436 | €81,571 |
| | William and Mary (Mason) | 12 | 21.8% | $91,500 | Not applicable |
| | Wisconsin | 3 | 3.7% | $91,000 | Not applicable |
| | Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 7 | 21.9% | $90,000 | Not applicable |
| | Hong Kong (HKUST) | 8 | 12.3% | $89,327 | HK$700,000 |
| | Texas Christian (Neeley) | 4 | 11.4% | $88,500 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 4 | 14.3% | $86,500 | Not applicable |
| | ESMT Berlin | 10 | 25.0% | $85,557 | €75,500 |
| | Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 5 | 17.2% | $85,000 | Not applicable |
| | Willamette (Atkinson) | 4 | 10.5% | $85,000 | Not applicable |
| | ESADE | 15 | 11.4% | $84,990 | €75,000 |
| | Purdue (Krannert) | 6 | 12.0% | $84,900 | Not applicable |
| | HEC Montreal | 5 | 16.1% | $82,969 | CA$110,000 |
| | Denver (Daniels) | 3 | 9.7% | $82,500 | Not applicable |
| | Georgia (Terry) | 3 | 8.1% | $82,000 | Not applicable |
| | Hult | 9 | 5.3% | $81,677 | Not applicable |
| | Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 5 | 16.1% | $81,000 | Not applicable |
| | EAE | 27 | 11.9% | $77,910 | €68,752 |
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| | Arizona (Eller) | 5 | 23.8% | $75,000 | Not applicable |
| | Oklahoma (Price) | 5 | 13.9% | $75,000 | Not applicable |
| | SUNY at Buffalo | 3 | 5.0% | $75,000 | Not applicable |
| | Copenhagen Business School | 5 | 20.0% | $74,801 | DKK 492,744 |
| | Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 9.8% | $73,000 | Not applicable |
| | CEIBS | 13 | 8.8% | $72,919 | CN¥500,000 |
| | Western (Ivey) | 34 | 27.9% | $71,655 | CA$95,000 |
| | City, University of London (Cass) | 8 | 23.5% | $70,831 | £55,250 |
| | Imperial College London | 15 | 28.8% | $70,574 | £55,050 |
| | Pittsburgh (Katz) | 5 | 9.8% | $70,505 | Not applicable |
| | Baylor (Hankamer) | 3 | 8.1% | $70,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas Tech (Rawls) | 7 | 17.1% | $69,000 | Not applicable |
| | Baruch (Zicklin) | 7 | 17.5% | $68,000 | Not applicable |
| | McGill (Desautels) | 11 | 16.9% | $67,884 | CA$90,000 |
| | Queen's (Smith) | 19 | 28.4% | $67,884 | CA$90,000 |
| | Toronto (Rotman) | 46 | 17.0% | $67,884 | CA$90,000 |
| | Manchester | 12 | 21.8% | $66,664 | £52,000 |
| | Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 5 | 7.5% | $66,319 | Not applicable |
| | Auburn | 7 | 25.9% | $62,500 | Not applicable |
| | Kentucky (Gatton) | 7 | 13.5% | $61,857 | Not applicable |
| | Concordia (Molson) | 5 | 19.2% | $60,341 | CA$80,000 |
| | Tampa (Sykes) | 3 | 6.1% | $57,500 | Not applicable |
| | National University of Singapore | 12 | 16.2% | $57,300 | S$78,300 |
| | Cincinnati (Lindner) | 4 | 10.5% | $55,000 | Not applicable |
| | Alberta | 7 | 22.6% | $49,781 | CA$66,000 |
| | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 8 | 11.4% | $43,752 | CN¥300,000 |
| | ESIC | 7 | 17.1% | $36,241 | Not applicable |
| | Indian School of Business | 196 | 24.2% | $33,741 | ₹2,385,000 |
| | Oregon (Lundquist) | 3 | 10.0% | Not available | Not applicable |
| | Ryerson (Rogers) | 3 | 14.3% | Not available | Not available |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.