Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Financial services such as banking, investing, and insurance accounted for 21.4% of all hires for MBAs’ first jobs after graduating, the third highest of any industry. NYU Stern and Stanford MBA graduates earned a median salary of $175,000, the highest of all ranked schools. Wharton sent 199 graduates into financial services, the most of any school. According to Samuel Jones, the director of Wharton's Career Management Office, many of the school's students "feel a sense of calling to use their talents to work in financial markets." Globally, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics sent the highest percentage—49.3%—into financial services.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYU (Stern) | 104 | 35.0% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 73 | 32.4% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 124 | 27.0% | $160,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 76 | 25.7% | $155,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 181 | 38.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 87 | 35.5% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 56 | 22.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 54 | 16.6% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 184 | 34.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 59 | 21.4% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 53 | 15.5% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 47 | 22.6% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 54 | 14.7% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 17 | 21.8% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 35 | 16.6% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 26 | 12.3% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 53 | 18.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 33 | 20.2% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 3 | 2.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 60 | 24.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 8 | 13.8% | $146,341 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 7 | 9.9% | $144,522 | €121,172 | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 29 | 26.6% | $139,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 64 | 31.5% | $138,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 20 | 20.6% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 23 | 18.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 22 | 12.6% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 13 | 14.4% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 10 | 16.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 91 | 25.9% | $124,588 | £92,500 | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 11 | 10.0% | $123,500 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 13 | 17.6% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 12 | 18.8% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Mannheim | 3 | 8.1% | $117,362 | €98,400 | |
| INSEAD | 77 | 14.8% | $115,200 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 9 | 20.0% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 8 | 20.5% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 6 | 18.2% | $114,248 | CHF 104,000 | |
| IE | 45 | 25.7% | $114,201 | €95,750 | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 15 | 17.9% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 6 | 26.1% | $111,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 12 | 23.5% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 10 | 29.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 5 | 8.3% | $109,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 60 | 23.5% | $107,317 | Not applicable | |
| San Diego (Knauss) | 3 | 16.7% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 5 | 11.1% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 11 | 42.3% | $104,000 | Not applicable | |
| Manchester | 11 | 19.6% | $102,061 | £75,775 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 39 | 30.2% | $101,017 | £75,000 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 8 | 14.5% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 7 | 13.7% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 6 | 9.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 5 | 15.6% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 6 | 13.3% | $97,500 | Not applicable | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 3 | 14.3% | $96,142 | DKK 600,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 9 | 18.0% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 7 | 8.9% | $94,667 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 22 | 22.0% | $92,500 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 4 | 13.3% | $92,500 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 53 | 29.8% | $89,122 | £66,168 | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 4 | 14.8% | $84,000 | Not applicable | |
| Imperial College London | 8 | 21.1% | $80,814 | £60,000 | |
| ESADE | 7 | 6.1% | $76,291 | €63,965 | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 13 | 31.7% | $75,667 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 3 | 5.6% | $74,663 | €62,600 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 12 | 20.0% | $74,168 | CA$95,150 | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 23 | 44.2% | $73,361 | HK$569,000 | |
| Cranfield | 6 | 23.1% | $72,059 | £53,500 | |
| National University of Singapore | 22 | 33.3% | $70,911 | Not applicable | |
| Western (Ivey) | 39 | 28.9% | $70,154 | CA$90,000 | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 3 | 7.7% | $68,580 | €57,500 | |
| ESIC | 4 | 8.7% | $68,383 | €57,335 | |
| HEC Montreal | 3 | 8.1% | $68,205 | CA$87,500 | |
| Toronto Metropolitan University (Rogers) | 11 | 42.3% | $66,256 | CA$85,000 | |
| South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 4 | 17.4% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 31 | 36.5% | $64,892 | CA$83,250 | |
| CEIBS | 19 | 15.1% | $63,381 | CN¥420,000 | |
| Bentley | 5 | 23.8% | $63,000 | Not applicable | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 3 | 11.1% | $62,359 | CA$80,000 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 3 | 8.8% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| Charleston | 4 | 12.1% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 33 | 49.3% | $59,578 | CN¥394,800 | |
| Mississippi | 14 | 31.1% | $53,694 | Not applicable | |
| Indian School of Business | 65 | 9.8% | $34,404 | ₹2,536,400 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 3 | 3.2% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| George Washington | 8 | 24.2% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Houston (Bauer) | 5 | 31.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 3 | 6.4% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Miami | 6 | 22.2% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 3 | 4.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 3 | 5.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 199 | 35.2% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 5 | 21.7% | Not available | Not available | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 3 | 16.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.