Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Stanford MBA graduates who went to work in the hospitality industry right after graduation earned a median salary of $180,000, the highest of any school that participated in the 2020-21 Best B-Schools Covid-19 Online Learning Survey. At $133,000, graduates of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School posted the second-highest compensation. The highest percentage of graduates in the hospitality industry came from SUNY at Buffalo, 9.4%. Results capture 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 | 3 | 1.2% | $180,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 3 | 0.5% | $133,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 15 | 2.4% | $114,600 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 3.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 12 | 4.1% | $94,631 | €85,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 5 | 9.4% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 7 | 2.7% | $59,717 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 6 | 3.8% | $30,861 | €27,720 | |
| Columbia | 3 | 0.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 3 | 0.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 3 | 0.5% | Not available | Not applicable |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.