Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
St. Gallen graduates who went into the manufacturing industry right after graduation earned $138,637, highest of any school in the 2019-20 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA students. At $132,624, graduates of IMD posted the next-highest compensation. Indian School of Business sent 53 graduates into manufacturing, most of any school. The highest percentage of graduates who took jobs at manufacturing companies of any school in the ranking came from University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore school, 35.3%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | St. Gallen | 9 | 23.7% | $138,637 | CHF 137,750 |
| | IMD | 14 | 23.3% | $132,624 | Not applicable |
| | Harvard | 23 | 3.7% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Hult | 5 | 2.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 12 | 2.0% | $127,500 | Not applicable |
| | MIT (Sloan) | 21 | 7.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 7 | 3.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | Chicago (Booth) | 12 | 2.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northwestern (Kellogg) | 16 | 4.1% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Yale | 5 | 2.0% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Dartmouth (Tuck) | 12 | 5.3% | $118,000 | Not applicable |
| | Michigan (Ross) | 25 | 7.5% | $115,008 | Not applicable |
| | Duke (Fuqua) | 6 | 1.7% | $115,004 | Not applicable |
| | Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 10 | 5.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Cornell (Johnson) | 14 | 6.0% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Virginia (Darden) | 13 | 4.4% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington (Foster) | 3 | 2.7% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 9 | 13.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Indiana (Kelley) | 19 | 12.5% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Minnesota (Carlson) | 13 | 17.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 5 | 2.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 6 | 2.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | HEC Paris | 6 | 3.1% | $109,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 10 | 11.5% | $108,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgetown (McDonough) | 12 | 5.7% | $106,500 | Not applicable |
| | Vanderbilt (Owen) | 6 | 4.8% | $105,000 | Not applicable |
| | SDA Bocconi | 6 | 8.5% | $103,232 | €91,098 |
| | Ohio State (Fisher) | 6 | 8.1% | $102,500 | Not applicable |
| | Texas A&M (Mays) | 10 | 19.6% | $102,500 | Not applicable |
| | Mannheim | 8 | 20.0% | $102,000 | Not applicable |
| | Wisconsin | 10 | 12.2% | $100,556 | Not applicable |
| | Michigan State (Broad) | 16 | 30.8% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 3 | 5.7% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 7 | 7.1% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Penn State (Smeal) | 7 | 16.3% | $98,857 | Not applicable |
| | IESE Business School | 8 | 3.1% | $98,106 | €86,574 |
| | Arizona State (Carey) | 7 | 7.9% | $96,000 | Not applicable |
| | INSEAD | 29 | 4.4% | $95,500 | Not applicable |
| | Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 5 | 15.6% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
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| | Rochester (Simon) | 8 | 9.4% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | IE | 17 | 7.0% | $94,641 | €83,517 |
| | Southern Methodist (Cox) | 6 | 8.1% | $93,259 | Not applicable |
| | ESADE | 18 | 13.6% | $93,001 | €82,069 |
| | Boston College (Carroll) | 7 | 13.5% | $92,500 | Not applicable |
| | Brigham Young (Marriott) | 18 | 14.4% | $90,000 | Not applicable |
| | Maryland (Smith) | 4 | 5.8% | $90,000 | Not applicable |
| | Pittsburgh (Katz) | 11 | 21.6% | $90,000 | Not applicable |
| | National University of Singapore | 4 | 5.4% | $89,200 | S$121,892 |
| | Oxford (Saïd) | 3 | 1.8% | $88,843 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 5 | 17.9% | $87,250 | Not applicable |
| | South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 6 | 35.3% | $87,000 | Not applicable |
| | Tennessee (Haslam) | 10 | 24.4% | $86,000 | Not applicable |
| | Utah (Eccles) | 3 | 7.3% | $85,000 | Not applicable |
| | Purdue (Krannert) | 17 | 34.0% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
| | Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 12 | 17.9% | $76,050 | Not applicable |
| | Hong Kong (HKUST) | 8 | 12.3% | $75,928 | HK$595,000 |
| | Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 5 | 16.1% | $75,000 | Not applicable |
| | William and Mary (Mason) | 4 | 7.3% | $70,000 | Not applicable |
| | Politecnico di Milano | 5 | 13.2% | $65,726 | €58,000 |
| | CEIBS | 17 | 11.5% | $65,627 | CN¥450,000 |
| | SUNY at Buffalo | 8 | 13.3% | $65,000 | Not applicable |
| | Willamette (Atkinson) | 5 | 13.2% | $63,000 | Not applicable |
| | Western (Ivey) | 3 | 2.5% | $60,341 | CA$80,000 |
| | Texas Tech (Rawls) | 4 | 9.8% | $59,500 | Not applicable |
| | Kentucky (Gatton) | 5 | 9.6% | $55,000 | Not applicable |
| | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 3 | 7.0% | $51,000 | Not applicable |
| | EAE | 11 | 4.9% | $41,647 | €36,752 |
| | Babson (Olin) | 10 | 10.5% | $37,616 | Not applicable |
| | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 4.3% | $35,001 | CN¥240,000 |
| | Indian School of Business | 53 | 6.6% | $29,709 | ₹2,100,000 |
| | Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 3 | 6.1% | Not available | Not applicable |
| | ESMT Berlin | 3 | 7.5% | Not available | Not available |
| | Manchester | 4 | 7.3% | Not available | Not available |
| | McGill (Desautels) | 3 | 4.6% | Not available | Not available |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.