Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The health care industry accounted for 7.2% of all hires, the fourth highest of any industry, among MBA graduates entering their first jobs. Stanford MBA grads earned a median salary of $150,000 in health care, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management earned the second highest, at $140,000. UC at Berkeley’s Haas school was fourth highest, at $135,000. Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and North Carolina Kenan-Flagler sent 32 graduates into health care, the most of any school, followed by Dartmouth’s Tuck school, at 31.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 11 | 4.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 30 | 5.6% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 27 | 9.8% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 14 | 6.6% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 15 | 3.3% | $132,500 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 30 | 5.3% | $131,000 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 9 | 27.3% | $130,726 | CHF 119,000 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 32 | 9.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 3 | 2.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 19 | 5.6% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 6 | 6.2% | $129,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 12 | 2.6% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 23 | 6.3% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 21 | 7.5% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 6 | 2.8% | $126,250 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 31 | 12.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 27 | 21.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 5 | 7.0% | $124,677 | €104,533 | |
| Mannheim | 3 | 8.1% | $124,518 | €104,400 | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 18 | 6.1% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 10 | 4.1% | $122,250 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 5 | 3.1% | $122,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 8 | 15.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 17 | 9.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 9 | 4.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 15 | 25.0% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 16 | 30.2% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 3 | 9.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 17 | 48.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 12 | 11.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 7 | 2.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 15 | 13.6% | $119,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 4 | 6.5% | $116,500 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 32 | 15.4% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 11 | 18.6% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 8 | 21.6% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 7 | 3.9% | $114,486 | £85,000 | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 7 | 8.9% | $114,352 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 26 | 28.0% | $113,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 26 | 10.2% | $110,695 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 3 | 5.5% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 3 | 6.7% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 9 | 10.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 11 | 13.1% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 3 | 14.3% | $108,319 | DKK 676,000 | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 6 | 9.4% | $103,200 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 29 | 5.6% | $102,900 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 4 | 8.7% | $102,576 | €86,003 | |
| London Business School | 6 | 1.7% | $101,017 | £75,000 | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 3 | 8.8% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 3 | 11.1% | $99,993 | Not applicable | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 6 | 4.7% | $98,324 | £73,000 | |
| UC at Davis | 4 | 18.2% | $98,000 | Not applicable | |
| Bentley | 3 | 14.3% | $97,500 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 8 | 4.6% | $96,115 | €80,586 | |
| San Diego (Knauss) | 3 | 16.7% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 14 | 12.2% | $92,276 | €77,367 | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 6 | 15.8% | $88,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 9 | 16.7% | $85,874 | €72,000 | |
| Hult | 8 | 8.0% | $82,400 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 6 | 20.0% | $78,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 4 | 8.9% | $77,440 | Not applicable | |
| Howard | 4 | 26.7% | $77,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 7 | 23.3% | $76,250 | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 9 | 22.5% | $76,000 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 23 | 18.3% | $75,152 | CN¥498,000 | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 5 | 5.9% | $75,094 | CA$96,338 | |
| Cranfield | 4 | 15.4% | $74,753 | £55,500 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 13 | 38.2% | $72,720 | Not applicable | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 16 | 32.0% | $63,000 | Not applicable | |
| Charleston | 4 | 12.1% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 6 | 12.8% | $59,702 | Not applicable | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 4 | 10.3% | $55,461 | €46,500 | |
| Indian School of Business | 27 | 4.1% | $36,623 | ₹2,700,000 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 3 | 5.6% | $25,772 | ₹1,900,000 | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 3 | 6.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 4 | 10.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| National University of Singapore | 4 | 6.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 3 | 16.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 3 | 7.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.