Best Business Schools Hiring:
Energy Industry

Duke University’s Fuqua school graduates who went into the energy industry right after graduation earned $127,500, highest of any school in the 2019-20 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA students. At $125,000, graduates of Harvard and Stanford posted the second-highest compensation. Indian School of Business sent 25 graduates into the energy industry, most of any school. The highest percentage of graduates who took jobs at manufacturing companies of any school in the ranking also came from Oklahoma, 47.2%.

school number of hires percentage of hires median salary (U.S. dollars) median salary (local currency)
Duke (Fuqua) 4 1.1% $127,500 Not applicable
Harvard 11 1.8% $125,000 Not applicable
Stanford 3 1.2% $125,000 Not applicable
UC at Berkeley (Haas) 4 2.2% $122,000 Not applicable
Chicago (Booth) 7 1.5% $120,000 Not applicable
INSEAD 7 1.1% $120,000 Not applicable
MIT (Sloan) 12 4.2% $120,000 Not applicable
Texas A&M (Mays) 5 9.8% $119,000 Not applicable
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 16 6.5% $118,000 Not applicable
Virginia (Darden) 5 1.7% $118,000 Not applicable
Notre Dame (Mendoza) 4 4.0% $116,500 Not applicable
IMD 4 6.7% $116,292 Not applicable
UCLA (Anderson) 5 1.8% $115,000 Not applicable
Alberta 3 9.7% $113,139 CA$150,000
USC (Marshall) 4 2.5% $112,000 Not applicable
Rice (Jones) 17 19.8% $111,000 Not applicable
Cornell (Johnson) 3 1.3% $110,000 Not applicable
Florida (Hough) 11 25.0% $110,000 Not applicable
Texas at Austin (McCombs) 13 6.1% $110,000 Not applicable
HEC Paris 11 5.7% $109,300 Not applicable
IE 8 3.3% $105,213 €92,846
Indiana (Kelley) 3 2.0% $100,000 Not applicable
Yale 5 2.0% $100,000 Not applicable
Copenhagen Business School 5 20.0% $96,548 DKK 636,000
Auburn 3 11.1% $95,000 Not applicable
Purdue (Krannert) 3 6.0% $95,000 Not applicable
Southern Methodist (Cox) 5 6.8% $95,000 Not applicable
IESE Business School 7 2.7% $90,224 €79,619
Pittsburgh (Katz) 3 5.9% $90,000 Not applicable
Texas Christian (Neeley) 9 25.7% $90,000 Not applicable
London Business School 9 3.0% $88,458 £69,000
Houston (Bauer) 10 35.7% $87,500 Not applicable
Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) 3 6.1% $85,000 Not applicable
Vanderbilt (Owen) 3 2.4% $85,000 Not applicable
Arizona State (Carey) 4 4.5% $83,000 Not applicable
Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) 3 5.7% $75,000 Not applicable
Oklahoma (Price) 17 47.2% $75,000 Not applicable
Oxford (Saïd) 6 3.7% $73,613 Not applicable
Texas Tech (Rawls) 9 22.0% $71,500 Not applicable
Hult 3 1.8% $69,438 Not applicable
ESADE 5 3.8% $67,992 €60,000
Erasmus (Rotterdam) 3 4.5% $58,500 Not applicable
Toronto (Rotman) 4 1.5% $56,004 CA$74,250
EAE 11 4.9% $43,737 €38,596
Indian School of Business 25 3.1% $29,370 ₹2,076,000
Boston University (Questrom) 3 2.8% Not available Not applicable
McGill (Desautels) 3 4.6% Not available Not available
Minnesota (Carlson) 3 4.0% Not available Not applicable
NYU (Stern) 3 0.9% Not available Not applicable
Northwestern (Kellogg) 3 0.8% Not available Not applicable
Rochester (Simon) 3 3.5% Not available Not applicable
Wisconsin 3 3.7% Not available Not applicable