Best Business School Rankings 2025–26
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Technology Industry
Technology in 2025 accounted for 1,968 hires from 95 participating business schools. While heavy cuts across the industry have made it more competitive in recent years, demand for AI, machine learning and digital transformation have created opportunities for grads. The programs with the highest number of MBAs entering the tech industry after receiving their degree are Indian School of Business, which sent 179 graduates; TAP Management Institute, also in India, which accounts for 135; and Wharton, which sent 103.
Technology is the fourth best paid among 26 industries reported in survey data used for our Business School ROI calculator, with median compensation (salary plus bonus) of $175,856, or 3.4% more than the median for all fields.
| School | Number of Hires | Percentage of Hires | Median salary (US dollars) | Median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 43 | 21.7% | $185,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 89 | 16.4% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 90 | 16.1% | $162,750 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 42 | 18.8% | $161,375 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 73 | 13.0% | $160,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 41 | 15.1% | $157,205 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 74 | 20.1% | $157,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 33 | 11.8% | $152,250 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 65 | 14.8% | $152,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 26 | 8.8% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 42 | 24.3% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 21 | 9.7% | $147,500 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 22 | 9.6% | $146,600 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 21 | 9.1% | $143,500 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 38 | 46.9% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 22 | 10.7% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 22 | 25.9% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 39 | 28.7% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 23 | 19.5% | $142,300 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 40 | 19.1% | $142,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 24 | 13.9% | $142,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 16 | 30.8% | $142,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 11 | 23.4% | $142,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 8 | 4.8% | $141,400 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 35 | 22.4% | $139,500 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 6 | 8.6% | $137,500 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 6 | 31.6% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 7 | 15.9% | $133,650 | CHF 115,901 | |
| Rice (Jones) | 15 | 15.2% | $133,400 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 5 | 8.5% | $132,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 9 | 8.1% | $130,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 13 | 21.3% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 12 | 13.5% | $128,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 7 | 19.4% | $128,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 11 | 50.0% | $126,500 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 18 | 27.7% | $125,500 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 7 | 25.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 3 | 10.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 4 | 18.2% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 5 | 14.3% | $120,960 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 5 | 8.5% | $120,027 | €110,437 | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 8 | 22.2% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 29 | 7.2% | $119,878 | €110,300 | |
| Mannheim | 10 | 30.3% | $114,444 | €105,300 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 10 | 23.8% | $114,190 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 7 | 25.9% | $112,800 | Not applicable | |
| American (Kogod) | 4 | 28.6% | $111,400 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 30 | 21.1% | $109,839 | €101,063 | |
| IESE Business School | 23 | 11.1% | $108,639 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 44 | 13.3% | $106,053 | £82,000 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 5 | 10.6% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 33 | 30.0% | $102,131 | £78,968 | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 4 | 14.8% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 4 | 10.8% | $98,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 34 | 23.3% | $96,100 | Not applicable | |
| HKUST | 6 | 13.6% | $89,863 | HK$700,000 | |
| EAE | 8 | 8.9% | $86,947 | €80,000 | |
| EDHEC | 10 | 22.7% | $86,336 | €79,438 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 5 | 10.9% | $84,570 | CA$118,000 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 3 | 16.7% | $84,250 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 22 | 23.4% | $81,513 | €75,000 | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 8 | 24.2% | $79,750 | Not applicable | |
| Western (Ivey) | 7 | 9.1% | $75,253 | CA$105,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 4 | 10.0% | $74,050 | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 5 | 22.7% | $72,386 | CA$101,000 | |
| Charleston | 3 | 8.8% | $63,250 | Not applicable | |
| Cranfield | 6 | 22.2% | $62,080 | £48,000 | |
| EADA | 3 | 15.0% | $53,000 | Not applicable | |
| POLIMI Graduate School of Management | 5 | 13.2% | $45,647 | €42,000 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 16 | 21.9% | $39,964 | ₹3,400,000 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 13 | 13.8% | $38,791 | CN¥280,000 | |
| SP Jain | 3 | 11.5% | $38,509 | ₹3,276,282 | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 5 | 20.8% | $36,852 | CN¥266,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 179 | 22.8% | $34,674 | ₹2,950,000 | |
| IMT Ghaziabad | 58 | 31.7% | $20,687 | ₹1,760,000 | |
| T A Pai Management Institute | 135 | 27.0% | $14,105 | ₹1,200,000 | |
| Woxsen University | 67 | 29.0% | $10,579 | ₹900,000 | |
| ESIC | 3 | 7.1% | Not available | Not available | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 3 | 10.0% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 3 | 11.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 3 | 5.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 16 | 10.1% | Not available | Not available | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 10 | 10.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 4 | 22.2% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.