Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Energy accounts for 1.7% of the MBAs hired from schools in this year’s survey. That figure will likely grow in the coming years, according to several B-school leaders. The reason: the need to mitigate climate change and speed up the transition to renewable energy. “We’re going to start to see over the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years increasing interest in people from schools that will be crucial for effecting the energy transition,” says Columbia Business School Dean Costis Maglaras. “That’s something that is going to be pervasive.” A higher share of graduates from schools located in regions where the industry is dominant, such as Texas, typically go into the field. MBA programs from three Texas schools—University of Houston-Bauer (No. 55 on our overall US ranking), Texas Christian (No. 42) and Rice (No. 19)—sent 28.6%, 14.3% and 9%, respectively, of their graduates into the industry.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 6 | 2.3% | $200,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 13 | 2.4% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 7 | 2.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 6 | 1.0% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 5 | 2.0% | $146,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 7 | 2.1% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 12 | 4.1% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 7 | 5.9% | $126,100 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 9 | 3.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 8 | 4.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 13 | 9.0% | $123,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 4 | 1.5% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 3 | 4.2% | $118,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 11 | 1.4% | $114,318 | €95,848 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 5 | 2.8% | $110,280 | £81,877 | |
| Yale | 4 | 1.5% | $105,210 | Not applicable | |
| Mannheim | 4 | 10.5% | $103,765 | €87,000 | |
| IESE Business School | 9 | 3.3% | $103,009 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 5 | 8.1% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 3 | 3.8% | $91,776 | €76,948 | |
| Hult | 4 | 2.9% | $91,200 | Not applicable | |
| Houston (Bauer) | 8 | 28.6% | $84,000 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 5 | 8.1% | $82,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 4 | 14.3% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Montreal | 3 | 12.0% | $77,948 | CA$100,000 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 4.8% | $67,908 | CN¥450,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 3 | 0.3% | $37,979 | ₹2,800,000 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 3 | 0.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 3 | 0.5% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 4 | 1.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 4 | 1.1% | Not available | Not available | |
| NYU (Stern) | 3 | 1.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.