Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Stanford graduates who went into the financial services industry right after graduation earned $157,500, highest of any school in the 2019-20 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA students. At $150,000, graduates of Harvard posted the second-highest compensation. University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school sent 221 graduates into financial services, most of any school. The highest percentage of graduates who took jobs at banks and other financial services companies of any school in the ranking came from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, 60.0%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stanford | 79 | 30.5% | $157,500 | Not applicable |
| | Harvard | 182 | 29.4% | $150,000 | Not applicable |
| | SDA Bocconi | 9 | 12.7% | $132,312 | €116,760 |
| | MIT (Sloan) | 47 | 16.4% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 221 | 36.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Cornell (Johnson) | 66 | 28.3% | $127,500 | Not applicable |
| | Chicago (Booth) | 148 | 31.6% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Columbia | 168 | 35.4% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Dartmouth (Tuck) | 45 | 19.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Duke (Fuqua) | 54 | 15.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Emory (Goizueta) | 23 | 17.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgetown (McDonough) | 46 | 21.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Michigan (Ross) | 52 | 15.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | NYU (Stern) | 111 | 33.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 49 | 20.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northwestern (Kellogg) | 45 | 11.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Rice (Jones) | 19 | 22.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 38 | 17.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 25 | 13.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | UCLA (Anderson) | 41 | 14.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | USC (Marshall) | 26 | 16.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Virginia (Darden) | 78 | 26.2% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington (Foster) | 5 | 4.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Yale | 59 | 23.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | HEC Paris | 31 | 16.1% | $123,900 | Not applicable |
| | Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 19 | 11.0% | $122,500 | Not applicable |
| | Fordham (Gabelli) | 12 | 44.4% | $122,500 | Not applicable |
| | Rochester (Simon) | 17 | 20.0% | $122,500 | Not applicable |
| | IMD | 3 | 5.0% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Minnesota (Carlson) | 5 | 6.7% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Vanderbilt (Owen) | 16 | 12.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Indiana (Kelley) | 18 | 11.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Maryland (Smith) | 16 | 23.2% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 15 | 15.2% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Babson (Olin) | 13 | 13.7% | $108,000 | Not applicable |
| | INSEAD | 92 | 13.9% | $108,000 | Not applicable |
| | IE | 46 | 18.9% | $105,892 | €93,445 |
| | Baruch (Zicklin) | 13 | 32.5% | $105,000 | Not applicable |
| | London Business School | 72 | 23.8% | $102,560 | £80,000 |
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| | Arizona State (Carey) | 9 | 10.1% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Brigham Young (Marriott) | 7 | 5.6% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | George Washington | 5 | 10.0% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Ohio State (Fisher) | 14 | 18.9% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 10 | 32.3% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 18 | 20.7% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgia (Terry) | 5 | 13.5% | $97,500 | Not applicable |
| | St. Gallen | 9 | 23.7% | $97,115 | CHF 96,493 |
| | Boston College (Carroll) | 11 | 21.2% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | Howard | 3 | 15.8% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | Southern Methodist (Cox) | 29 | 39.2% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 3 | 10.3% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | Wisconsin | 7 | 8.5% | $94,500 | Not applicable |
| | Oxford (Saïd) | 44 | 27.0% | $94,139 | Not applicable |
| | IESE Business School | 52 | 19.8% | $90,656 | €80,000 |
| | Utah (Eccles) | 10 | 24.4% | $90,000 | Not applicable |
| | Copenhagen Business School | 3 | 12.0% | $89,818 | DKK 591,664 |
| | Imperial College London | 12 | 23.1% | $89,740 | £70,000 |
| | Texas A&M (Mays) | 5 | 9.8% | $88,500 | Not applicable |
| | Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 5 | 15.6% | $88,000 | Not applicable |
| | William and Mary (Mason) | 14 | 25.5% | $88,000 | Not applicable |
| | Manchester | 13 | 23.6% | $87,817 | £68,500 |
| | Hult | 21 | 12.3% | $87,500 | Not applicable |
| | Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 10 | 18.9% | $85,000 | Not applicable |
| | ESMT Berlin | 4 | 10.0% | $82,157 | €72,500 |
| | Boston University (Questrom) | 8 | 7.5% | $81,250 | Not applicable |
| | Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 4 | 8.2% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
| | Connecticut | 12 | 31.6% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
| | South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 3 | 17.6% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
| | Tulane (Freeman) | 4 | 13.8% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at San Diego (Rady) | 5 | 21.7% | $78,000 | Not applicable |
| | Cambridge (Judge) | 21 | 18.6% | $76,689 | £59,820 |
| | Hong Kong (HKUST) | 24 | 36.9% | $76,566 | HK$600,000 |
| | Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 7 | 10.4% | $76,050 | Not applicable |
| | City, University of London (Cass) | 7 | 20.6% | $74,356 | £58,000 |
| | National University of Singapore | 13 | 17.6% | $72,448 | S$99,000 |
| | Baylor (Hankamer) | 6 | 16.2% | $71,500 | Not applicable |
| | ESADE | 19 | 14.4% | $70,258 | €62,000 |
| | Houston (Bauer) | 4 | 14.3% | $70,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Irvine (Merage) | 5 | 10.9% | $70,000 | Not applicable |
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| | Pittsburgh (Katz) | 4 | 7.8% | $68,500 | Not applicable |
| | McGill (Desautels) | 19 | 29.2% | $67,884 | CA$90,000 |
| | Western (Ivey) | 43 | 35.2% | $67,884 | CA$90,000 |
| | Auburn | 5 | 18.5% | $65,000 | Not applicable |
| | Denver (Daniels) | 5 | 16.1% | $65,000 | Not applicable |
| | Tennessee (Haslam) | 8 | 19.5% | $65,000 | Not applicable |
| | Toronto (Rotman) | 96 | 35.6% | $64,112 | CA$85,000 |
| | Alberta | 6 | 19.4% | $62,604 | CA$83,000 |
| | Oklahoma (Price) | 6 | 16.7% | $62,500 | Not applicable |
| | Rutgers | 5 | 7.2% | $62,500 | Not applicable |
| | Willamette (Atkinson) | 12 | 31.6% | $62,400 | Not applicable |
| | HEC Montreal | 3 | 9.7% | $61,849 | CA$82,000 |
| | ESIC | 3 | 7.3% | $60,391 | Not applicable |
| | Queen's (Smith) | 26 | 38.8% | $60,341 | CA$80,000 |
| | Hofstra (Zarb) | 10 | 20.4% | $60,000 | Not applicable |
| | Miami | 6 | 16.2% | $60,000 | Not applicable |
| | Missouri (Trulaske) | 5 | 20.0% | $60,000 | Not applicable |
| | SUNY at Buffalo | 8 | 13.3% | $60,000 | Not applicable |
| | CEIBS | 36 | 24.3% | $58,335 | CN¥400,000 |
| | Concordia (Molson) | 3 | 11.5% | $56,570 | CA$75,000 |
| | Charleston | 5 | 21.7% | $55,000 | Not applicable |
| | Oregon (Lundquist) | 3 | 10.0% | $55,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas Tech (Rawls) | 4 | 9.8% | $55,000 | Not applicable |
| | Tampa (Sykes) | 3 | 6.1% | $52,500 | Not applicable |
| | Cincinnati (Lindner) | 4 | 10.5% | $51,500 | Not applicable |
| | EAE | 25 | 11.1% | $48,177 | €42,514 |
| | Mississippi | 6 | 21.4% | $44,791 | Not applicable |
| | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 42 | 60.0% | $41,126 | CN¥282,000 |
| | Shanghai University MBA Centre | 3 | 20.0% | $30,626 | CN¥210,000 |
| | Indian School of Business | 41 | 5.1% | $28,294 | ₹2,000,000 |
| | Lingnan | 9 | 52.9% | $15,401 | CN¥105,600 |
| | American (Kogod) | 3 | 25.0% | Not available | Not applicable |
| | Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 3 | 4.3% | Not available | Not applicable |
| | Ryerson (Rogers) | 4 | 19.0% | Not available | Not available |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.