Best Business Schools Hiring:
Health Care Industry

The growth in biotech, especially, and pharmaceuticals means increased opportunities for MBAs in the health-care field in the years ahead. A growing number of schools offer specialized programs to concentrate on health care, such as Duke Fuqua’s Health Sector Management Program. Fuqua in fall 2022 designated its MBA fully as a STEM program—for science, technology, engineering and math. The school claims the largest number of MBA hires into the health-care industry among the participants in this year’s ranking. Salaries in health care also are competitive with other industries traditionally associated with high pay—Stanford MBAs entering the health-care field have a median salary of $195,000; Wharton’s graduates bring in a median of $160,000.

school number of hires percentage of hires median salary (US dollars) median salary (local currency)
Stanford 12 4.6% $195,000 Not applicable
Pennsylvania (Wharton) 34 5.6% $160,000 Not applicable
Harvard 27 5.0% $155,000 Not applicable
UC at Berkeley (Haas) 13 5.1% $152,500 Not applicable
MIT (Sloan) 23 6.8% $145,000 Not applicable
Michigan (Ross) 19 6.3% $140,000 Not applicable
St. Gallen 4 11.8% $137,317 CHF 125,000
Chicago (Booth) 22 4.1% $135,000 Not applicable
Texas at Austin (McCombs) 3 1.5% $135,000 Not applicable
USC (Marshall) 9 5.5% $135,000 Not applicable
Yale 10 3.8% $134,000 Not applicable
Georgetown (McDonough) 8 4.1% $131,000 Not applicable
Dartmouth (Tuck) 23 9.3% $130,000 Not applicable
Duke (Fuqua) 38 11.2% $130,000 Not applicable
Northwestern (Kellogg) 20 4.3% $130,000 Not applicable
Vanderbilt (Owen) 19 12.8% $130,000 Not applicable
Mannheim 3 7.9% $128,812 €108,000
Virginia (Darden) 12 3.4% $127,885 Not applicable
SDA Bocconi 6 7.8% $127,411 €106,826
UCLA (Anderson) 11 4.0% $127,000 Not applicable
Emory (Goizueta) 9 7.6% $126,500 Not applicable
Boston College (Carroll) 6 10.2% $125,250 Not applicable
Indiana (Kelley) 3 4.1% $125,000 Not applicable
Maryland (Smith) 5 8.6% $125,000 Not applicable
Notre Dame (Mendoza) 5 4.9% $125,000 Not applicable
Washington in St. Louis (Olin) 4 5.6% $125,000 Not applicable
NYU (Stern) 8 3.6% $123,750 Not applicable
Columbia 19 3.1% $123,500 Not applicable
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 29 9.9% $123,000 Not applicable
Rochester (Simon) 15 13.9% $123,000 Not applicable
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 8 6.3% $121,000 Not applicable
Cornell (Johnson) 7 2.8% $121,000 Not applicable
Florida (Warrington) 7 19.4% $120,000 Not applicable
Minnesota (Carlson) 13 23.2% $120,000 Not applicable
UC at Davis 7 21.2% $120,000 Not applicable
Utah (Eccles) 3 7.9% $120,000 Not applicable
Washington (Foster) 6 5.9% $120,000 Not applicable
INSEAD 19 2.5% $119,204 €99,945
Texas A&M (Mays) 4 6.5% $116,000 Not applicable
IMD 8 10.4% $115,396 Not applicable
Boston University (Questrom) 21 17.6% $115,000 Not applicable
Rutgers 11 42.3% $115,000 Not applicable
London Business School 5 1.3% $114,486 £85,000
IESE Business School 29 10.7% $112,076 Not applicable
Copenhagen Business School 4 21.1% $111,682 DKK 696,987
Wisconsin 6 8.1% $111,000 Not applicable
Brigham Young (Marriott) 7 5.1% $110,000 Not applicable
Pittsburgh (Katz) 5 29.4% $110,000 Not applicable
Hult 6 4.3% $109,300 Not applicable
Howard 4 28.6% $105,200 Not applicable
ESADE 11 9.6% $103,339 €86,643
Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) 5 10.0% $100,000 Not applicable
Arizona State (Carey) 3 5.7% $99,000 Not applicable
Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 3 7.0% $96,000 Not applicable
CEIBS 21 19.8% $93,260 CN¥618,000
Houston (Bauer) 3 10.7% $88,000 Not applicable
Oxford (Saïd) 9 5.0% $87,548 £65,000
Alberta 8 20.0% $77,824 CA$99,840
Baylor (Hankamer) 12 24.5% $73,900 Not applicable
Western (Ivey) 4 2.9% $72,102 CA$92,500
EADA 4 18.2% $71,562 €60,000
Charleston 4 9.3% $70,000 Not applicable
Kentucky (Gatton) 3 6.5% $70,000 Not applicable
Concordia (Molson) 3 10.0% $68,595 CA$88,000
HEC Montreal 3 12.0% $67,815 CA$87,000
SUNY at Buffalo 9 17.3% $67,000 Not applicable
EAE 3 3.8% $63,879 €53,558
Cincinnati (Lindner) 4 8.0% $55,000 Not applicable
Indian School of Business 20 2.3% $46,117 ₹3,400,000
Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) 3 4.8% Not available Not applicable
Fordham (Gabelli) 3 5.9% Not available Not applicable
Georgia Tech (Scheller) 3 5.5% Not available Not applicable
McGill (Desautels) 4 13.3% Not available Not available
Shanghai University MBA Centre 3 13.0% Not available Not available
Tennessee (Haslam) 3 8.1% Not available Not applicable