Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The consumer-products industry accounted for 4.5% of all MBA hires, fifth-highest of any industry, according to data and survey results from this year’s ranking. Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management (No. 7 in the US) sent 44 graduates, the most of any school, into consumer products. Second was Indian School of Business (No. 5 in Asia), with 38. One role within consumer products that offers growing opportunities to MBAs is product management—basically, what the name suggests: The role involves planning, developing, launching and managing a product or service, which are often digital. Consumer packaged goods make up another area of expertise. “Our students go into a broad array of roles within the CPG space,” says Liza Kirkpatrick, assistant dean of career services at Kellogg. “Last year we saw students pursue roles in operations, strategy, finance, leadership programs and brand management at CPG companies, assuming titles as finance managers, product managers, senior planners and strategy analysts, among others.”
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 4 | 1.5% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 4 | 5.2% | $154,139 | €129,235 | |
| IE | 16 | 8.9% | $153,280 | €128,515 | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 10 | 3.0% | $141,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 13 | 5.1% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 4 | 3.4% | $127,700 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 4 | 3.4% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 12 | 2.2% | $125,800 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 16 | 3.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 5 | 3.4% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 23 | 8.4% | $123,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 4 | 3.1% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 44 | 9.4% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 20 | 14.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 11 | 1.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 12 | 4.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 9 | 3.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 13 | 3.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 10 | 13.5% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 16 | 5.3% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 8 | 3.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 10 | 1.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 6 | 5.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 3 | 3.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 12 | 3.4% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 9 | 5.5% | $117,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 10 | 1.3% | $115,096 | €96,500 | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 3 | 10.7% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 6 | 3.1% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 13 | 8.7% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 8 | 15.7% | $113,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 5 | 7.0% | $113,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 12 | 16.2% | $113,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 10 | 9.8% | $112,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 13 | 4.9% | $112,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 8 | 22.2% | $111,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 13 | 6.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 7 | 2.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 5 | 10.0% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 4 | 6.9% | $105,532 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 3 | 4.5% | $104,333 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 3 | 3.9% | $98,911 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Davis | 4 | 12.1% | $98,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 4 | 8.9% | $97,500 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 18 | 6.7% | $96,776 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 5 | 8.1% | $94,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 4 | 7.1% | $93,259 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 10 | 7.2% | $88,800 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 6 | 10.2% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 3 | 8.1% | $81,800 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 5 | 8.1% | $78,000 | Not applicable | |
| POLIMI Graduate School of Management | 8 | 17.0% | $75,021 | €62,900 | |
| Western (Ivey) | 3 | 2.1% | $74,830 | CA$96,000 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 3 | 10.0% | $66,256 | CA$85,000 | |
| ESIC | 5 | 9.8% | $63,069 | Not applicable | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 3 | 6.5% | $62,000 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 4 | 3.8% | $58,854 | CN¥390,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 5 | 9.6% | $57,500 | Not applicable | |
| Indian School of Business | 38 | 4.3% | $36,623 | ₹2,700,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 8 | 5.5% | Not available | Not available | |
| London Business School | 3 | 0.8% | Not available | Not available | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 3 | 7.0% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.