Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The energy industry accounted for 1.9% of all hires, ninth highest of any industry, among MBA graduates in their first jobs after business school at the 119 schools around the world that participated in the 2021-22 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs. Harvard Business School MBA graduates earned a median salary of $141,000 in the energy industry, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. At $140,656, EDHEC had second highest. UC at Berkeley’s Haas school was third, at $140,000. Indian School of Business sent 34 graduates into the energy industry, the most of any school. Second was Rice University’s Jones school, at 12, followed by University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs school, at 11. Texas Christian’s Neeley school sent 21.7% of its MBA graduates into the energy industry, highest among all schools in the Bloomberg Businessweek business school ranking. At 20.8%, University of Oklahoma’s Price school had the next highest, followed by Tulane’s Freeman school, at 20.0%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard | 7 | 1.3% | $141,000 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 3 | 6.3% | $140,656 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 5 | 2.4% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 4 | 1.7% | $132,500 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 5 | 1.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 7 | 2.1% | $123,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Hough) | 3 | 5.2% | $118,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 6 | 13.6% | $118,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 3 | 4.5% | $115,260 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 12 | 12.6% | $114,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 4 | 1.4% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 11 | 5.1% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 10 | 4.6% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 6 | 3.1% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tulane (Freeman) | 3 | 20.0% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 3 | 1.7% | $98,844 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 5 | 21.7% | $98,136 | Not applicable | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 5 | 20.8% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 4 | 9.1% | $84,577 | HK$656,000 | |
| IE | 6 | 2.3% | $83,489 | €70,000 | |
| EAE | 3 | 1.6% | $81,757 | €68,548 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 4 | 4.1% | $81,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 3 | 0.9% | $80,235 | £59,570 | |
| National University of Singapore | 4 | 5.5% | $43,510 | Not applicable | |
| Indian School of Business | 34 | 4.0% | $32,553 | ₹2,400,000 | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 3 | 13.6% | $28,069 | CN¥186,000 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 4 | 0.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 3 | 13.0% | Not available | Not available | |
| IESE Business School | 3 | 1.4% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Imperial College London | 3 | 7.5% | Not available | Not available | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 3 | 0.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 3 | 1.6% | Not available | Not available | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 3 | 5.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 3 | 4.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 3 | 1.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.