Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
MBA graduates at Harvard who went into the media and entertainment industry right after graduation earned a median salary of $149,000, the highest of any school that participated in the 2020-21 Best B-Schools Covid-19 Online Learning Survey. At $140,000, graduates of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School posted the second-highest compensation. The highest percentage of graduates in the media and entertainment industry came from Pepperdine’s Graziadio school, at 10.7%. Results capture 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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard | 16 | 2.6% | $149,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 6 | 1.0% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 8 | 3.2% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 17 | 6.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 14 | 2.7% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 9 | 3.5% | $101,014 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 7 | 2.1% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 5 | 0.8% | $89,800 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 3 | 10.3% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 3 | 1.0% | $82,251 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 11 | 3.8% | $80,714 | €72,500 | |
| Hult | 5 | 2.8% | $75,500 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 3 | 4.3% | $75,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 3 | 1.9% | $63,191 | €56,760 | |
| Hofstra (Zarb) | 4 | 6.7% | $58,500 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 3 | 6.0% | $55,665 | €50,000 | |
| CEIBS | 5 | 3.4% | $54,597 | CN¥384,000 | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 3 | 1.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 3 | 10.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 3 | 7.7% | Not available | Not applicable |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.