Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Stanford graduates who went into the technology industry right after graduation earned a median salary of $135,000, highest of any school in the 2019-20 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA students. At $131,000, graduates of HEC Paris posted the second-highest compensation. Harvard sent 117 graduates into technology, most of any school. The highest percentage of graduates who took jobs at technology companies of any school in the ranking came from University of Washington’s Foster school, 54.1%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stanford | 84 | 32.4% | $135,000 | Not applicable |
| | HEC Paris | 25 | 13.0% | $131,000 | Not applicable |
| | Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 56 | 32.4% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Chicago (Booth) | 95 | 20.3% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Dartmouth (Tuck) | 54 | 23.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Duke (Fuqua) | 94 | 26.1% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Harvard | 117 | 18.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | MIT (Sloan) | 82 | 28.6% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Michigan (Ross) | 90 | 27.1% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | NYU (Stern) | 54 | 16.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northwestern (Kellogg) | 95 | 24.4% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 90 | 15.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 58 | 31.7% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | UCLA (Anderson) | 81 | 29.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Yale | 38 | 14.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | Cornell (Johnson) | 41 | 17.6% | $129,996 | Not applicable |
| | Columbia | 79 | 16.6% | $129,000 | Not applicable |
| | Baruch (Zicklin) | 4 | 10.0% | $127,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgetown (McDonough) | 37 | 17.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable |
| | IMD | 7 | 11.7% | $122,667 | Not applicable |
| | Howard | 4 | 21.1% | $122,500 | Not applicable |
| | Virginia (Darden) | 54 | 18.1% | $122,500 | Not applicable |
| | Emory (Goizueta) | 17 | 12.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 51 | 20.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Rochester (Simon) | 20 | 23.5% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 63 | 29.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | SDA Bocconi | 14 | 19.7% | $119,871 | €105,781 |
| | Washington (Foster) | 60 | 54.1% | $119,000 | Not applicable |
| | USC (Marshall) | 27 | 16.8% | $118,500 | Not applicable |
| | Vanderbilt (Owen) | 16 | 12.8% | $118,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Irvine (Merage) | 17 | 37.0% | $117,000 | Not applicable |
| | Brigham Young (Marriott) | 56 | 44.8% | $115,250 | Not applicable |
| | Boston University (Questrom) | 17 | 16.0% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgia (Terry) | 5 | 13.5% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Maryland (Smith) | 9 | 13.0% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | George Washington | 8 | 16.0% | $112,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 22 | 31.9% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 27 | 27.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Rice (Jones) | 15 | 17.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
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| | Arizona (Eller) | 9 | 42.9% | $106,500 | Not applicable |
| | Michigan State (Broad) | 10 | 19.2% | $106,000 | Not applicable |
| | Penn State (Smeal) | 12 | 27.9% | $106,000 | Not applicable |
| | Southern Methodist (Cox) | 4 | 5.4% | $106,000 | Not applicable |
| | INSEAD | 100 | 15.1% | $105,000 | Not applicable |
| | Minnesota (Carlson) | 7 | 9.3% | $105,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas Christian (Neeley) | 5 | 14.3% | $105,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 7 | 8.0% | $105,000 | Not applicable |
| | Mannheim | 11 | 27.5% | $102,960 | Not applicable |
| | Wisconsin | 11 | 13.4% | $102,333 | Not applicable |
| | Indiana (Kelley) | 22 | 14.5% | $102,250 | Not applicable |
| | Florida (Hough) | 6 | 13.6% | $100,750 | Not applicable |
| | Arizona State (Carey) | 30 | 33.7% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Babson (Olin) | 22 | 23.2% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Miami | 3 | 8.1% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 8 | 28.6% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 4 | 7.5% | $99,000 | Not applicable |
| | London Business School | 79 | 26.1% | $98,714 | £77,000 |
| | Texas A&M (Mays) | 16 | 31.4% | $98,000 | Not applicable |
| | UC at Davis | 14 | 40.0% | $98,000 | Not applicable |
| | IE | 47 | 19.3% | $97,371 | €85,926 |
| | Ohio State (Fisher) | 9 | 12.2% | $96,125 | Not applicable |
| | Pittsburgh (Katz) | 12 | 23.5% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 6 | 20.7% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | Hult | 32 | 18.7% | $94,079 | Not applicable |
| | UC at San Diego (Rady) | 5 | 21.7% | $93,000 | Not applicable |
| | Purdue (Krannert) | 4 | 8.0% | $92,500 | Not applicable |
| | Boston College (Carroll) | 8 | 15.4% | $91,000 | Not applicable |
| | Cambridge (Judge) | 42 | 37.2% | $89,740 | £70,000 |
| | ESMT Berlin | 6 | 15.0% | $89,523 | €79,000 |
| | Connecticut | 4 | 10.5% | $88,000 | Not applicable |
| | Oxford (Saïd) | 39 | 23.9% | $87,578 | Not applicable |
| | Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 9.8% | $87,500 | Not applicable |
| | Willamette (Atkinson) | 4 | 10.5% | $85,000 | Not applicable |
| | Utah (Eccles) | 9 | 22.0% | $84,000 | Not applicable |
| | IESE Business School | 32 | 12.2% | $83,510 | €73,694 |
| | Imperial College London | 13 | 25.0% | $83,330 | £65,000 |
| | William and Mary (Mason) | 9 | 16.4% | $83,200 | Not applicable |
| | Manchester | 9 | 16.4% | $81,922 | £63,902 |
| | Missouri (Trulaske) | 3 | 12.0% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
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| | San Diego | 6 | 40.0% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
| | Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 7 | 10.4% | $78,624 | Not applicable |
| | Baylor (Hankamer) | 6 | 16.2% | $75,600 | Not applicable |
| | Denver (Daniels) | 6 | 19.4% | $75,000 | Not applicable |
| | Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 11 | 22.4% | $73,900 | Not applicable |
| | Toronto (Rotman) | 16 | 5.9% | $73,541 | CA$97,500 |
| | ESADE | 35 | 26.5% | $72,525 | €64,000 |
| | Western (Ivey) | 9 | 7.4% | $71,655 | CA$95,000 |
| | Cincinnati (Lindner) | 5 | 13.2% | $70,000 | Not applicable |
| | City, University of London (Cass) | 5 | 14.7% | $67,946 | £53,000 |
| | Kentucky (Gatton) | 5 | 9.6% | $66,400 | Not applicable |
| | McGill (Desautels) | 11 | 16.9% | $66,186 | CA$87,750 |
| | HEC Montreal | 9 | 29.0% | $64,112 | CA$85,000 |
| | Rutgers | 7 | 10.1% | $62,400 | Not applicable |
| | SUNY at Buffalo | 4 | 6.7% | $61,500 | Not applicable |
| | Concordia (Molson) | 3 | 11.5% | $60,341 | CA$80,000 |
| | National University of Singapore | 15 | 20.3% | $57,080 | S$78,000 |
| | Texas Tech (Rawls) | 6 | 14.6% | $57,000 | Not applicable |
| | Hong Kong (HKUST) | 10 | 15.4% | $56,759 | HK$444,787 |
| | CEIBS | 34 | 23.0% | $55,419 | CN¥380,000 |
| | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 5 | 11.6% | $55,000 | Not applicable |
| | Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 4.3% | $46,377 | CN¥318,000 |
| | Charleston | 3 | 13.0% | $46,000 | Not applicable |
| | Queen's (Smith) | 6 | 9.0% | $40,353 | CA$53,500 |
| | EAE | 18 | 8.0% | $39,265 | €34,650 |
| | Politecnico di Milano | 8 | 21.1% | $39,095 | €34,500 |
| | ESIC | 4 | 9.8% | $36,241 | Not applicable |
| | Indian School of Business | 31 | 3.8% | $31,124 | ₹2,200,000 |
| | Lingnan | 3 | 17.6% | $30,626 | CN¥210,000 |
| | Alberta | 3 | 9.7% | Not available | Not available |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.