Best Business Schools Hiring:
Consumer Products Industry

IMD graduates who went into the consumer products industry right after graduation earned $195,996, highest of any school in the 2019-20 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA students. At $135,000, graduates of Stanford posted the second-highest compensation. Indian School of Business sent 71 graduates into consumer products, most of any school. The highest percentage of graduates who took jobs at consumer products companies of any school in the ranking came from Wisconsin, 25.6%.

school number of hires percentage of hires median salary (U.S. dollars) median salary (local currency)
IMD 9 15.0% $195,996 Not applicable
Stanford 6 2.3% $135,000 Not applicable
MIT (Sloan) 9 3.1% $122,000 Not applicable
SDA Bocconi 8 11.3% $120,119 €106,000
UC at Berkeley (Haas) 14 7.7% $120,000 Not applicable
Chicago (Booth) 20 4.3% $115,000 Not applicable
Columbia 31 6.5% $115,000 Not applicable
Harvard 20 3.2% $115,000 Not applicable
Pennsylvania (Wharton) 37 6.2% $115,000 Not applicable
Yale 9 3.5% $115,000 Not applicable
Texas at Austin (McCombs) 12 5.6% $111,000 Not applicable
Michigan State (Broad) 7 13.5% $110,500 Not applicable
Michigan (Ross) 21 6.3% $110,000 Not applicable
USC (Marshall) 13 8.1% $109,000 Not applicable
Notre Dame (Mendoza) 11 11.1% $108,700 Not applicable
Dartmouth (Tuck) 12 5.3% $108,000 Not applicable
Mannheim 3 7.5% $108,000 Not applicable
Northwestern (Kellogg) 28 7.2% $108,000 Not applicable
Duke (Fuqua) 18 5.0% $107,500 Not applicable
Indiana (Kelley) 25 16.4% $107,500 Not applicable
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 8 4.6% $107,000 Not applicable
Cornell (Johnson) 23 9.9% $107,000 Not applicable
Minnesota (Carlson) 11 14.7% $107,000 Not applicable
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 11 4.5% $107,000 Not applicable
Wisconsin 21 25.6% $106,525 Not applicable
Brigham Young (Marriott) 14 11.2% $106,000 Not applicable
NYU (Stern) 17 5.2% $106,000 Not applicable
Virginia (Darden) 9 3.0% $106,000 Not applicable
Florida (Hough) 10 22.7% $105,000 Not applicable
Georgetown (McDonough) 14 6.6% $105,000 Not applicable
UC at Davis 4 11.4% $105,000 Not applicable
UC at Irvine (Merage) 7 15.2% $105,000 Not applicable
UCLA (Anderson) 21 7.6% $105,000 Not applicable
Vanderbilt (Owen) 8 6.4% $105,000 Not applicable
William and Mary (Mason) 3 5.5% $104,155 Not applicable
Maryland (Smith) 5 7.2% $104,000 Not applicable
Washington in St. Louis (Olin) 9 10.3% $103,240 Not applicable
Ohio State (Fisher) 10 13.5% $102,500 Not applicable
Oxford (Saïd) 10 6.1% $101,007 Not applicable
Rice (Jones) 6 7.0% $100,500 Not applicable
Emory (Goizueta) 10 7.5% $100,000 Not applicable
Washington (Foster) 3 2.7% $100,000 Not applicable
IE 21 8.6% $99,862 €88,124
Arizona State (Carey) 6 6.7% $99,000 Not applicable
Penn State (Smeal) 3 7.0% $97,667 Not applicable
HEC Paris 15 7.8% $95,100 Not applicable
Georgia (Terry) 4 10.8% $95,000 Not applicable
Georgia Tech (Scheller) 3 4.3% $95,000 Not applicable
Miami 4 10.8% $95,000 Not applicable
INSEAD 14 2.1% $92,000 Not applicable
Babson (Olin) 12 12.6% $90,000 Not applicable
Boston College (Carroll) 8 15.4% $90,000 Not applicable
Boston University (Questrom) 7 6.6% $90,000 Not applicable
Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) 5 9.4% $90,000 Not applicable
Rochester (Simon) 5 5.9% $90,000 Not applicable
IESE Business School 40 15.3% $87,256 €77,000
London Business School 13 4.3% $86,907 £67,790
Purdue (Krannert) 11 22.0% $86,000 Not applicable
Hult 16 9.4% $85,000 Not applicable
CEIBS 5 3.4% $80,211 CN¥550,000
Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) 5 10.2% $80,000 Not applicable
Rutgers 9 13.0% $80,000 Not applicable
Texas Christian (Neeley) 6 17.1% $76,500 Not applicable
Erasmus (Rotterdam) 10 14.9% $75,554 Not applicable
Pittsburgh (Katz) 3 5.9% $75,000 Not applicable
Kentucky (Gatton) 4 7.7% $72,750 Not applicable
ESADE 4 3.0% $68,576 €60,515
Western (Ivey) 5 4.1% $64,112 CA$85,000
Politecnico di Milano 9 23.7% $62,326 €55,000
Toronto (Rotman) 17 6.3% $61,661 CA$81,750
National University of Singapore 3 4.1% $54,446 S$74,400
SUNY at Buffalo 11 18.3% $51,000 Not applicable
Concordia (Molson) 3 11.5% $49,027 CA$65,000
EAE 7 3.1% $44,662 €39,412
ESIC 6 14.6% $44,291 Not applicable
Indian School of Business 71 8.8% $29,709 ₹2,100,000
McGill (Desautels) 5 7.7% Not available Not available
Southern Methodist (Cox) 3 4.1% Not available Not applicable