Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
MBA graduates at Indiana’s Kelley school who worked in the retail industry right after graduation earned a median salary of $130,000, the highest of all schools that participated in the 2020-21 Best B-Schools Covid-19 Online Learning Survey. At $125,000, graduates of NYU’s Stern school posted the second-highest compensation. The highest percentage of graduates in the retail industry came from EADA, 16.7%. Results capture returns 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) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana (Kelley) | 3 | 1.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 5 | 1.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 4 | 6.6% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 19 | 3.1% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 3 | 7.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 18 | 2.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 3 | 2.4% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 13 | 3.3% | $116,050 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 11 | 3.0% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 7 | 3.2% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 3 | 1.2% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 4 | 4.7% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 9 | 6.7% | $107,604 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 7 | 8.4% | $100,631 | €90,390 | |
| INSEAD | 11 | 1.8% | $93,200 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 5 | 5.2% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 5 | 2.8% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 9 | 3.1% | $70,138 | €63,000 | |
| CEIBS | 3 | 2.0% | $63,981 | CN¥450,000 | |
| IESE Business School | 29 | 11.2% | $63,606 | Not applicable | |
| Toronto (Rotman) | 6 | 2.3% | $60,754 | CA$81,750 | |
| Imperial College London | 3 | 6.8% | $60,003 | £47,250 | |
| EADA | 7 | 16.7% | $57,892 | €52,000 | |
| ESIC | 3 | 6.0% | $55,665 | €50,000 | |
| EAE | 4 | 2.5% | $48,299 | €43,384 | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 3 | 13.0% | $35,545 | CN¥250,000 | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 3 | 1.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| ESMT Berlin | 4 | 10.0% | Not available | Not available | |
| Manchester | 3 | 4.9% | Not available | Not available | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 3 | 6.5% | Not available | Not available |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.