Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The consumer products industry accounted for 5.4% of all hires, fifth highest of any industry, among MBA graduates in their first jobs after business school at the 119 schools around the world that participated in the 2021-22 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs. Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA graduates earned a median salary of $157,500 in consumer products, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school earned second highest, at $125,000. Columbia was third highest, at $121,500, followed by HEC Paris, at $120,652, and MIT’s Sloan school, at $120,000. Indian School of Business sent 59 graduates into consumer products, the most of any school. Second was Northwestern’s Kellogg school, at 28, followed by Cornell Johnson, at 24. Purdue’s Krannert sent 34.3% of its MBA graduates into consumer products, highest among all schools in the Bloomberg Businessweek business school ranking. At 31.5%, University of Washington had the next highest, followed by Texas Christian University’s Neeley school, at 21.7%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 8 | 3.5% | $157,500 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 14 | 2.2% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 18 | 3.5% | $121,500 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 5 | 2.9% | $120,652 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 5 | 1.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 4 | 6.1% | $116,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 21 | 4.6% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 12 | 34.3% | $114,500 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 4 | 6.1% | $113,500 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 6 | 2.5% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 19 | 3.4% | $112,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 18 | 6.3% | $112,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 9 | 6.3% | $111,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 11 | 13.8% | $110,880 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 4 | 4.2% | $110,500 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 16 | 14.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 24 | 10.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 17 | 5.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Hough) | 11 | 19.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 7 | 3.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 23 | 7.2% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 9 | 4.1% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 28 | 7.5% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 8 | 9.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 3 | 4.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 17 | 7.9% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 11 | 5.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 6 | 21.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 15 | 6.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 6 | 5.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 17 | 31.5% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 7 | 3.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 13 | 8.6% | $109,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 6 | 11.3% | $107,500 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 8 | 2.8% | $107,500 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 9 | 11.7% | $106,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 7 | 5.2% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 14 | 10.1% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 4 | 10.0% | $103,000 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 3 | 2.4% | $102,013 | CN¥676,000 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 13 | 14.4% | $98,800 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 5 | 21.7% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 10 | 3.0% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 6 | 5.6% | $88,713 | £65,865 | |
| Hult | 8 | 8.3% | $88,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 16 | 7.4% | $87,982 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 4 | 14.8% | $87,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 8 | 1.5% | $85,100 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 4 | 9.1% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 7 | 12.1% | $82,500 | Not applicable | |
| Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 8 | 11.0% | $80,730 | Not applicable | |
| EADA | 3 | 8.6% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 3 | 10.0% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 15 | 5.8% | $78,718 | €66,000 | |
| HEC Montreal | 3 | 6.7% | $74,051 | CA$95,000 | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 3 | 7.7% | $71,562 | €60,000 | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 4 | 7.8% | $68,595 | CA$88,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 5 | 9.3% | $63,000 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 7 | 14.6% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 8 | 15.7% | $54,691 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 7 | 3.8% | $52,798 | €44,268 | |
| National University of Singapore | 4 | 5.5% | $52,731 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 4 | 8.7% | $52,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indian School of Business | 59 | 7.0% | $36,623 | ₹2,700,000 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 3 | 8.8% | Not available | Not available | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.