Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
IMD MBA graduates who worked in the consumer products industry right after graduation earned a median salary of $195,996, the highest of any school that participated in the 2020-21 Best B-Schools Covid-19 Online Learning Survey. At $135,000, graduates of Stanford posted the second-highest compensation. The highest percentage of graduates came from ESIC, at 22%. Results reflect reports from 2019 graduates before the pandemic hit; schools were still collecting 2020 employment data when the survey was published.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IMD | 10 | 16.7% | $195,996 | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 7 | 2.8% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 18 | 2.9% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 6 | 2.6% | $123,250 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 35 | 6.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 5 | 3.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 21 | 3.4% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 4 | 7.0% | $115,750 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 17 | 4.6% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 35 | 8.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 7 | 2.3% | $114,593 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 19 | 5.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 9 | 4.1% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 10 | 9.7% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 4 | 11.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 24 | 9.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 24 | 14.0% | $109,000 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 15 | 12.8% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 10 | 4.1% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 9 | 4.4% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 9 | 14.8% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 18 | 20.2% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 11 | 8.7% | $107,000 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 17 | 5.9% | $105,764 | €95,000 | |
| Florida (Hough) | 6 | 14.0% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 9 | 10.8% | $104,639 | €93,990 | |
| INSEAD | 13 | 2.1% | $103,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 8 | 11.9% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 4 | 6.3% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 4 | 10.5% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 6 | 6.7% | $99,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 5 | 13.5% | $97,500 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 18 | 7.0% | $96,592 | Not applicable | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 4 | 13.3% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 11.4% | $93,750 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Davis | 3 | 10.0% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 10 | 10.3% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 3 | 7.7% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 32 | 18.1% | $72,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 7 | 14.9% | $66,000 | Not applicable | |
| Toronto (Rotman) | 17 | 6.5% | $65,027 | CA$87,500 | |
| ESADE | 6 | 5.0% | $64,850 | €58,250 | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 5 | 6.5% | $60,992 | HK$474,632 | |
| CEIBS | 10 | 6.7% | $56,304 | CN¥396,000 | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 5 | 10.9% | $56,241 | €50,517 | |
| ESIC | 11 | 22.0% | $55,665 | €50,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 3 | 8.8% | $47,191 | CA$63,500 | |
| EAE | 4 | 2.5% | $41,148 | €36,960 | |
| Imperial College London | 3 | 6.8% | $39,621 | £31,200 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 3 | 2.3% | Not available | Not available | |
| EADA | 3 | 7.1% | Not available | Not available | |
| ESMT Berlin | 3 | 7.5% | Not available | Not available | |
| Laurier (Lazaridis) | 5 | 9.4% | Not available | Not available | |
| Miami | 3 | 8.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 3 | 10.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 3 | 10.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.