Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Stanford MBA graduates who went into financial services right after graduation earned a median salary of $170,000, the highest of any school that participated in the 2020-21 Best B-Schools Covid-19 Online Learning Survey. At $151,035, graduates of SDA Bocconi posted the second-highest compensation. Pennsylvania’s Wharton School sent 224 graduates into financial services, the most of any school. The highest percentage of graduates came from Fordham’s Gabelli school, 51.7%. Results reflect performance of 2019 graduates before the pandemic struck; 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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 83 | 32.8% | $170,000 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 10 | 12.0% | $151,035 | €135,664 | |
| Columbia | 192 | 37.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 69 | 18.6% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 176 | 28.6% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 100 | 29.4% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 68 | 17.0% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 224 | 36.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 55 | 23.8% | $145,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 43 | 16.1% | $139,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 91 | 37.1% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 46 | 20.7% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 16 | 12.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 55 | 27.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 24 | 23.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 4 | 10.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 4 | 4.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Howard | 4 | 21.1% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 3 | 5.0% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 22 | 12.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 25 | 18.5% | $115,350 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 4 | 3.4% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 12 | 13.5% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 87 | 13.9% | $112,000 | Not applicable | |
| Mannheim | 5 | 13.9% | $111,600 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 82 | 26.6% | $111,124 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 15 | 23.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 55 | 19.0% | $105,764 | €95,000 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 14 | 22.2% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 4 | 10.5% | $104,500 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 44 | 17.1% | $104,103 | Not applicable | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 31 | 23.7% | $101,033 | £79,560 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 9 | 10.1% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 5 | 10.6% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 10 | 14.5% | $98,750 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 5 | 15.2% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 6 | 17.6% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| George Washington | 6 | 11.8% | $93,500 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 11 | 19.0% | $92,500 | Not applicable | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 18 | 23.4% | $91,237 | HK$710,000 | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 6 | 23.1% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 15 | 51.7% | $87,500 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 27 | 15.3% | $87,500 | Not applicable | |
| Imperial College London | 6 | 13.6% | $79,369 | £62,500 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 14 | 14.4% | $74,500 | Not applicable | |
| Houston (Bauer) | 5 | 25.0% | $73,250 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 11.4% | $72,500 | Not applicable | |
| EADA | 6 | 14.3% | $72,365 | €65,000 | |
| Hofstra (Zarb) | 15 | 25.0% | $72,000 | Not applicable | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 6 | 26.1% | $72,000 | Not applicable | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 10 | 18.9% | $70,000 | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 18 | 40.0% | $66,885 | CA$90,000 | |
| Toronto (Rotman) | 81 | 30.8% | $66,885 | CA$90,000 | |
| ESADE | 11 | 9.1% | $66,798 | €60,000 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 4 | 14.3% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 5 | 16.1% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| American (Kogod) | 4 | 18.2% | $64,500 | Not applicable | |
| Missouri (Trulaske) | 8 | 26.7% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ryerson (Rogers) | 5 | 38.5% | $59,453 | CA$80,000 | |
| CEIBS | 32 | 21.5% | $56,872 | CN¥400,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 4 | 11.8% | $55,737 | CA$75,000 | |
| Florida International (Chapman) | 3 | 33.3% | $55,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Davis | 6 | 20.0% | $55,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 6 | 12.0% | $52,882 | €47,500 | |
| EAE | 17 | 10.6% | $50,259 | €45,144 | |
| Oklahoma State (Spears) | 4 | 12.9% | $48,500 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 13 | 33.3% | $47,250 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Tech (Rawls) | 5 | 9.8% | $45,000 | Not applicable | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 7 | 30.4% | $31,280 | CN¥220,000 | |
| Alberta | 5 | 10.2% | Not available | Not available | |
| ESMT Berlin | 4 | 10.0% | Not available | Not available | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 4 | 10.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 3 | 4.5% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Laurier (Lazaridis) | 12 | 22.6% | Not available | Not available | |
| Manchester | 5 | 8.2% | Not available | Not available | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 3 | 10.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 6 | 21.4% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 4 | 8.7% | Not available | Not available | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 3 | 9.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.