Best Business Schools Hiring:
Technology Industry

Stanford MBA graduates who worked at technology companies right after graduation earned a median salary of $140,000, the highest of any school that participated in the 2020-21 Best B-Schools Covid-19 Online Learning Survey. At $135,500, graduates of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School came next. The highest percentage of graduates came from Washington’s Foster school, at 40.7%. The results capture reports from 2019 graduates before the pandemic; schools were still collecting 2020 employment data when the survey was published. Harvard sent 123 graduates into the technology industry, the most of any school.

school number of hires percentage of hires median salary (U.S. dollars) median salary (local currency)
Stanford 60 23.7% $140,000 Not applicable
Pennsylvania (Wharton) 108 17.4% $135,500 Not applicable
Columbia 67 12.9% $135,000 Not applicable
Harvard 123 20.0% $135,000 Not applicable
Northwestern (Kellogg) 91 22.8% $133,500 Not applicable
Duke (Fuqua) 80 21.6% $130,250 Not applicable
Cornell (Johnson) 36 14.7% $130,000 Not applicable
George Washington 9 17.6% $130,000 Not applicable
Georgia Tech (Scheller) 15 22.4% $130,000 Not applicable
UCLA (Anderson) 82 30.7% $130,000 Not applicable
Dartmouth (Tuck) 44 19.0% $126,000 Not applicable
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 47 21.2% $125,750 Not applicable
IMD 7 11.7% $122,667 Not applicable
Georgetown (McDonough) 28 13.7% $122,500 Not applicable
NYU (Stern) 51 15.0% $121,500 Not applicable
Emory (Goizueta) 15 11.9% $120,000 Not applicable
SDA Bocconi 17 20.5% $119,674 €107,495
Washington (Foster) 35 40.7% $118,000 Not applicable
Wisconsin 16 18.0% $118,000 Not applicable
Maryland (Smith) 14 21.9% $117,500 Not applicable
Ohio State (Fisher) 5 7.9% $116,500 Not applicable
Fordham (Gabelli) 5 17.2% $115,000 Not applicable
Notre Dame (Mendoza) 20 19.4% $115,000 Not applicable
Purdue (Krannert) 5 16.7% $114,000 Not applicable
Indiana (Kelley) 32 18.7% $112,500 Not applicable
Utah (Eccles) 14 35.9% $112,500 Not applicable
UC at Irvine (Merage) 9 26.5% $110,400 Not applicable
Penn State (Smeal) 13 33.3% $110,000 Not applicable
Texas A&M (Mays) 15 38.5% $110,000 Not applicable
Brigham Young (Marriott) 44 37.6% $106,500 Not applicable
Minnesota (Carlson) 6 9.8% $105,500 Not applicable
IE 68 23.4% $105,207 €94,500
Texas Christian (Neeley) 3 7.9% $104,000 Not applicable
William and Mary (Mason) 22 31.9% $104,000 Not applicable
Mannheim 9 25.0% $102,800 Not applicable
Georgia (Terry) 8 21.6% $102,500 Not applicable
HEC Paris 22 16.3% $100,430 Not applicable
Arizona State (Carey) 30 33.7% $100,000 Not applicable
Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) 19 32.8% $100,000 Not applicable
Florida (Hough) 14 32.6% $100,000 Not applicable
Michigan State (Broad) 11 19.3% $100,000 Not applicable
Hult 32 18.1% $98,900 Not applicable
London Business School 67 21.8% $98,018 Not applicable
Rutgers 5 10.6% $98,000 Not applicable
Tennessee (Haslam) 6 17.1% $98,000 Not applicable
Cambridge (Judge) 41 31.3% $97,782 £77,000
UC at Davis 8 26.7% $95,500 Not applicable
INSEAD 122 19.6% $95,200 Not applicable
Oklahoma (Price) 4 17.4% $93,000 Not applicable
Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 9 27.3% $90,500 Not applicable
Babson (Olin) 15 15.5% $87,500 Not applicable
Baylor (Hankamer) 5 17.2% $87,000 Not applicable
Imperial College London 9 20.5% $86,353 £68,000
American (Kogod) 4 18.2% $85,000 Not applicable
Miami 10 29.4% $83,000 Not applicable
Manchester 6 9.8% $81,703 £64,338
Missouri (Trulaske) 3 10.0% $80,000 Not applicable
Toronto (Rotman) 13 4.9% $75,803 CA$102,000
Denver (Daniels) 6 19.4% $75,000 Not applicable
Hong Kong (HKUST) 27 35.1% $71,962 HK$560,000
ESADE 35 28.9% $70,138 €63,000
Texas Tech (Rawls) 7 13.7% $69,000 Not applicable
IESE Business School 39 15.1% $68,305 Not applicable
SUNY at Buffalo 10 18.9% $68,000 Not applicable
CEIBS 34 22.8% $66,825 CN¥470,000
McGill (Desautels) 7 15.6% $60,196 CA$81,000
Cincinnati (Lindner) 4 14.3% $59,750 Not applicable
Concordia (Molson) 3 8.8% $59,453 CA$80,000
HEC Montreal 7 36.8% $59,453 CA$80,000
Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) 5 12.8% $57,500 Not applicable
ESIC 5 10.0% $55,665 €50,000
EAE 7 4.4% $42,911 €38,544
Politecnico di Milano 8 17.4% $34,512 €31,000
Shanghai University MBA Centre 3 13.0% $19,431 CN¥136,667
Alberta 5 10.2% Not available Not available
ESMT Berlin 4 10.0% Not available Not available
Laurier (Lazaridis) 6 11.3% Not available Not available