Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
For all the challenges facing—and questions hanging over—the media/entertainment industry, some sectors present interesting and potentially lucrative opportunities for MBAs, in both old and new business models. For example, roles dealing with an increasingly important function called “windowing”—deciding how long a movie should appear in theaters, whether it should premiere in theaters, when it should move to streaming—are likely to increase and will draw on the types of skills MBAs are learning and developing in B-school. Not surprisingly, UCLA’s Anderson school sent the highest number of its graduates, 23, into the industry.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 13 | 5.0% | $155,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 14 | 2.6% | $153,750 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 8 | 1.3% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 7 | 2.1% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 9 | 4.0% | $132,500 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 13 | 2.1% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 23 | 8.4% | $126,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 16 | 9.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 4 | 0.9% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 4 | 2.9% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 3 | 3.8% | $91,776 | €76,948 | |
| INSEAD | 11 | 1.4% | $90,483 | €75,864 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 4.8% | $76,238 | CN¥505,200 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 4 | 2.2% | $60,610 | £45,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 12 | 1.4% | $39,335 | ₹2,900,000 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 4 | 0.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| EADA | 3 | 13.6% | Not available | Not available | |
| London Business School | 3 | 0.8% | Not available | Not available | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 5 | 9.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 4 | 12.5% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.