Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Consulting accounted for 25.4% of all hires, the biggest share of any industry, among MBA graduates from the 117 schools around the world that participated in this year’s B-Schools ranking. The industry often is cited by student respondents as an area of interest and opportunity, due in large part to the high salaries offered across large, midsized, and boutique consultancies. At several leading consulting firms, those salaries are on the rise. Post-MBA starting associate/consultant salaries at McKinsey & Co. and Bain & Co. in the US now are reportedly $192,000—and $190,000 at Boston Consulting Group—up from the former $175,000. Among the ranking’s participants this year, INSEAD sent 238 graduates into consulting, the most of any school. Second was Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India, at 230. And third was the University of Chicago’s Booth, at 158.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago (Booth) | 158 | 34.4% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 116 | 24.9% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 87 | 35.5% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 105 | 32.2% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 126 | 23.4% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 78 | 28.3% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 120 | 35.1% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 93 | 31.3% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 134 | 36.4% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 154 | 27.3% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 41 | 18.2% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 60 | 28.4% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 95 | 32.1% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 82 | 34.0% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 48 | 22.7% | $160,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 45 | 16.1% | $160,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 29 | 17.8% | $160,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 41 | 37.6% | $159,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 25 | 32.1% | $157,500 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 67 | 27.3% | $155,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 18 | 16.4% | $155,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 38 | 18.3% | $155,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 59 | 33.7% | $152,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 4 | 7.5% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 14 | 15.6% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 17 | 23.0% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 27 | 21.8% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 6 | 10.0% | $145,350 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 52 | 25.6% | $145,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 23 | 22.3% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 11 | 17.7% | $134,000 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 4 | 12.1% | $131,825 | CHF 120,000 | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 24 | 37.5% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 5 | 21.7% | $127,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 16 | 19.0% | $127,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 6 | 10.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 13 | 25.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 16 | 16.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 5 | 11.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 8 | 10.1% | $123,333 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 88 | 34.5% | $122,648 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 13 | 18.3% | $120,725 | €101,220 | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 4 | 11.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 20 | 21.5% | $118,750 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 238 | 45.9% | $118,300 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 3 | 7.7% | $117,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 124 | 35.3% | $115,429 | £85,700 | |
| Mannheim | 13 | 35.1% | $113,903 | €95,500 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 4 | 6.8% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 3 | 9.4% | $110,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 5 | 13.2% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 5 | 14.3% | $108,500 | Not applicable | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 6 | 28.6% | $108,239 | DKK 675,500 | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 5 | 13.5% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 9 | 27.3% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 6.7% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 37 | 20.8% | $104,385 | £77,500 | |
| IE | 23 | 13.1% | $103,188 | €86,516 | |
| ESADE | 30 | 26.1% | $102,691 | €86,100 | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 3 | 6.7% | $97,500 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 5 | 11.1% | $97,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 4 | 14.8% | $96,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 7 | 15.2% | $95,737 | €80,269 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 32 | 24.8% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 7 | 17.5% | $93,000 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 7 | 12.1% | $91,150 | Not applicable | |
| American (Kogod) | 3 | 20.0% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 14 | 21.9% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Western (Ivey) | 40 | 29.6% | $89,641 | CA$115,000 | |
| Manchester | 10 | 17.9% | $80,814 | £60,000 | |
| HEC Montreal | 13 | 35.1% | $80,677 | CA$103,500 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 6 | 22.2% | $79,897 | CA$102,500 | |
| Imperial College London | 9 | 23.7% | $78,390 | £58,200 | |
| Tulane (Freeman) | 4 | 22.2% | $77,250 | Not applicable | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 4 | 15.4% | $77,000 | Not applicable | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 3 | 27.3% | $76,500 | Not applicable | |
| Cranfield | 8 | 30.8% | $75,763 | £56,250 | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 4 | 7.8% | $72,000 | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 16 | 26.7% | $71,317 | CA$91,492 | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 4 | 22.2% | $71,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 9 | 9.0% | $70,100 | Not applicable | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 22 | 25.9% | $68,205 | CA$87,500 | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 6 | 12.8% | $66,700 | Not applicable | |
| National University of Singapore | 14 | 21.2% | $64,914 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 12 | 9.5% | $63,381 | CN¥420,000 | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 3 | 7.3% | $62,167 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 4 | 7.4% | $61,952 | €51,943 | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 6 | 15.4% | $54,864 | €46,000 | |
| Mississippi | 3 | 6.7% | $52,517 | Not applicable | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 4 | 6.0% | $51,339 | CN¥340,200 | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 7 | 13.5% | $41,773 | HK$324,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 230 | 34.8% | $39,335 | ₹2,900,000 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 14 | 25.9% | $24,415 | ₹1,800,000 | |
| George Washington | 9 | 27.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 3 | 13.0% | Not available | Not available | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.