Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Financial services accounted for 20.6% of all hires, third 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 MBA graduates earned a median salary of $175,000 in financial services, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. Graduates at 18 schools earned a median salary of $150,000, second highest, including University of Chicago’s Booth school, Columbia, Cornell’s Johnson school, Dartmouth’s Tuck, Duke Fuqua, Emory Goizueta, Harvard, MIT Sloan, Michigan Ross, UNC Kenan-Flagler, NYU Stern, Northwestern Kellogg, Pennsylvania Wharton, Rice’s Jones school, University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs, UC at Berkeley Haas, USC Marshall, and Virginia Darden. Wharton sent 226 graduates into financial services, the most of any school. Second was Columbia, at 190. Baruch College’s Zicklin school sent the highest percentage of any school into financial services, 53.8%. At 53%, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics was second highest.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 77 | 34.1% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 138 | 30.3% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 190 | 37.0% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 79 | 33.8% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 49 | 20.5% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 62 | 18.4% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 24 | 17.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 185 | 33.5% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 46 | 16.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 38 | 11.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 95 | 33.5% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 41 | 18.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 50 | 13.4% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 226 | 36.3% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 21 | 22.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 38 | 17.8% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 30 | 14.5% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 12 | 7.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 55 | 19.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 6 | 9.1% | $148,400 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 6 | 12.5% | $146,830 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 25 | 13.1% | $142,500 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 55 | 23.2% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 24 | 31.2% | $136,500 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 34 | 14.5% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 8 | 7.1% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 38 | 26.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 12 | 18.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 20 | 14.5% | $121,750 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 67 | 20.1% | $121,221 | £90,000 | |
| SDA Bocconi | 12 | 16.4% | $120,159 | €100,745 | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 5 | 12.5% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 7 | 6.5% | $119,750 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 58 | 22.6% | $117,481 | €98,500 | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 36 | 18.7% | $116,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 8 | 10.0% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 3 | 6.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 4 | 7.5% | $110,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 7 | 10.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 46 | 21.4% | $109,853 | Not applicable | |
| Manchester | 9 | 18.0% | $105,058 | £78,000 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 21 | 30.4% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 3 | 15.0% | $103,058 | CHF 93,814 | |
| Wisconsin | 8 | 14.8% | $102,500 | Not applicable | |
| EADA | 4 | 11.4% | $102,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 86 | 15.7% | $101,400 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 10 | 15.2% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 11 | 25.0% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 14 | 41.2% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 20 | 24.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 8 | 30.8% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 3 | 10.0% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 14 | 31.8% | $96,697 | HK$750,000 | |
| Mannheim | 4 | 10.8% | $95,714 | €80,250 | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 8 | 18.2% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 56 | 30.3% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 3 | 13.0% | $90,854 | DKK 567,000 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 7 | 7.2% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Hough) | 5 | 8.6% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 6 | 17.6% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| George Washington | 5 | 15.2% | $89,500 | Not applicable | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 32 | 29.9% | $88,182 | £65,470 | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 5 | 20.8% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 7 | 53.8% | $81,500 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 23 | 13.2% | $80,618 | Not applicable | |
| Miami (Herbert) | 3 | 12.0% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 15 | 16.7% | $75,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 6 | 10.3% | $75,000 | Not applicable | |
| Imperial College London | 12 | 30.0% | $74,079 | £55,000 | |
| Hult | 17 | 17.7% | $73,300 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 20 | 15.7% | $73,190 | CN¥485,000 | |
| ESIC | 4 | 7.8% | $72,917 | Not applicable | |
| San Diego | 5 | 22.7% | $70,875 | Not applicable | |
| Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 10 | 13.7% | $68,394 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 13 | 12.1% | $66,421 | €55,690 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 3 | 10.7% | $66,167 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 12 | 6.6% | $65,498 | €54,916 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 11 | 32.4% | $65,087 | CA$83,500 | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 14 | 27.5% | $64,307 | CA$82,500 | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 8 | 17.4% | $62,500 | Not applicable | |
| Ryerson (Rogers) | 3 | 18.8% | $62,359 | CA$80,000 | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 3 | 25.0% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 13 | 24.1% | $59,200 | Not applicable | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 5 | 12.8% | $59,000 | Not applicable | |
| College of Charleston | 3 | 12.0% | $57,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 7 | 19.4% | $57,000 | Not applicable | |
| National University of Singapore | 11 | 15.1% | $56,825 | Not applicable | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 3 | 11.5% | $54,564 | CA$70,000 | |
| Mississippi | 10 | 28.6% | $53,300 | Not applicable | |
| Tampa (Sykes) | 13 | 21.0% | $50,000 | Not applicable | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 35 | 53.0% | $45,272 | CN¥300,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 91 | 10.8% | $32,553 | ₹2,400,000 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 5 | 6.8% | $29,841 | ₹2,200,000 | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 4 | 13.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 4 | 10.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 3 | 13.0% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Tulane (Freeman) | 4 | 26.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.