Best Business Schools Hiring:
Health Care Industry

Stanford MBA graduates who worked in the health-care industry right after graduation earned a median salary of $150,000, the highest of any school that participated in the 2020-21 Best B-Schools Covid-19 Online Learning Survey. At $148,222, graduates of IMD posted the second-highest compensation. The highest percentage of graduates at health-care companies came from Rutgers, at 40.4%. Results portray reports from 2019 graduates before the pandemic; 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 14 5.5% $150,000 Not applicable
IMD 4 6.7% $148,222 Not applicable
Pennsylvania (Wharton) 27 4.3% $137,000 Not applicable
HEC Paris 8 5.9% $130,933 Not applicable
Dartmouth (Tuck) 11 4.8% $130,000 Not applicable
Harvard 41 6.7% $130,000 Not applicable
Penn State (Smeal) 4 10.3% $127,500 Not applicable
Georgetown (McDonough) 7 3.4% $125,000 Not applicable
Maryland (Smith) 3 4.7% $125,000 Not applicable
Northwestern (Kellogg) 28 7.0% $125,000 Not applicable
UC at Irvine (Merage) 3 8.8% $125,000 Not applicable
Columbia 22 4.2% $120,000 Not applicable
Georgia (Terry) 3 8.1% $120,000 Not applicable
UCLA (Anderson) 16 6.0% $120,000 Not applicable
Duke (Fuqua) 29 7.8% $118,808 Not applicable
Brigham Young (Marriott) 7 6.0% $115,000 Not applicable
Emory (Goizueta) 4 3.2% $115,000 Not applicable
NYU (Stern) 7 2.1% $115,000 Not applicable
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 24 10.8% $115,000 Not applicable
IESE Business School 14 5.4% $114,229 Not applicable
Florida (Hough) 4 9.3% $113,000 Not applicable
Minnesota (Carlson) 14 23.0% $113,000 Not applicable
Cornell (Johnson) 10 4.1% $112,000 Not applicable
Michigan State (Broad) 3 5.3% $110,000 Not applicable
Indiana (Kelley) 18 10.5% $109,000 Not applicable
Notre Dame (Mendoza) 7 6.8% $105,000 Not applicable
Wisconsin 10 11.2% $105,000 Not applicable
Ohio State (Fisher) 10 15.9% $101,500 Not applicable
INSEAD 24 3.8% $100,600 Not applicable
Arizona State (Carey) 7 7.9% $100,000 Not applicable
London Business School 8 2.6% $98,192 Not applicable
Rutgers 19 40.4% $97,500 Not applicable
Babson (Olin) 14 14.4% $95,000 Not applicable
SDA Bocconi 5 6.0% $92,572 €83,151
IE 13 4.5% $89,621 €80,500
American (Kogod) 4 18.2% $87,000 Not applicable
William and Mary (Mason) 5 7.2% $85,000 Not applicable
Texas Christian (Neeley) 4 10.5% $77,400 Not applicable
Hult 12 6.8% $76,200 Not applicable
Utah (Eccles) 7 17.9% $75,650 Not applicable
Denver (Daniels) 3 9.7% $75,000 Not applicable
Manchester 4 6.6% $73,596 £57,954
Baylor (Hankamer) 6 20.7% $71,500 Not applicable
Hofstra (Zarb) 13 21.7% $70,000 Not applicable
Miami 3 8.8% $70,000 Not applicable
Toronto (Rotman) 5 1.9% $66,885 CA$90,000
ESADE 8 6.6% $66,044 €59,323
CEIBS 19 12.8% $63,981 CN¥450,000
SUNY at Buffalo 6 11.3% $62,000 Not applicable
Cincinnati (Lindner) 3 10.7% $51,000 Not applicable
EADA 5 11.9% $50,099 €45,000
Texas Tech (Rawls) 6 11.8% $49,250 Not applicable
EAE 11 6.9% $32,330 €29,040
Alberta 8 16.3% Not available Not available
Cambridge (Judge) 5 3.8% Not available Not available
McGill (Desautels) 3 6.7% Not available Not available
Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 4 12.1% Not available Not applicable