Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The health-care industry accounted for 6.9% of all hires, fourth 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. Stanford Graduate School of Business MBA graduates earned a median salary of $170,000 in health care, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton school earned second highest, at $140,000. UC at Berkeley’s Haas school was third highest, at $135,000, followed by MIT’s Sloan school, at $132,500, and SDA Bocconi, at $131,747. Wharton sent 43 graduates into health care, the most of any school. Second was Harvard, at 36, followed by North Carolina Kenan-Flager, at 29. Rutgers sent 46.7% of its MBA graduates into health care, highest among all schools in the Bloomberg Businessweek business school ranking. At 43.6%, University of Pittsburgh’s Katz school had the next highest, followed by Baylor University’s Hankamer school, at 42.9%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 10 | 4.4% | $170,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 43 | 6.9% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 24 | 11.6% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 14 | 4.9% | $132,500 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 10 | 13.7% | $131,747 | €110,461 | |
| Columbia | 22 | 4.3% | $131,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 16 | 3.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 36 | 6.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 18 | 4.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 10 | 5.5% | $125,041 | €104,839 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 28 | 8.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 17 | 5.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 12 | 4.2% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 11 | 4.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 6 | 30.0% | $123,311 | CHF 112,250 | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 8 | 6.0% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 7 | 4.6% | $121,350 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 20 | 8.4% | $121,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 25 | 25.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 13 | 6.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 6 | 7.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 23 | 16.2% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 7 | 2.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 29 | 13.4% | $119,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 11 | 5.1% | $119,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 6 | 2.6% | $118,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 7 | 8.5% | $118,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 6 | 3.1% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Howard | 3 | 18.8% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 15 | 18.8% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 10 | 4.2% | $116,700 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 14 | 46.7% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 10 | 15.2% | $113,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 4 | 6.1% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 20 | 9.3% | $110,426 | Not applicable | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 5 | 11.4% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 14 | 5.4% | $109,728 | €92,000 | |
| INSEAD | 19 | 3.5% | $108,500 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Davis | 5 | 20.8% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 5.6% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 6 | 13.6% | $107,500 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 15 | 10.9% | $107,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 4 | 4.2% | $107,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 6 | 8.7% | $106,500 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 3 | 8.8% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 3 | 4.7% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 5 | 11.4% | $102,500 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 7 | 3.8% | $101,017 | £75,000 | |
| London Business School | 15 | 4.5% | $100,934 | £74,938 | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 12 | 11.1% | $99,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 17 | 43.6% | $98,750 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 5 | 17.9% | $98,000 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 7 | 7.8% | $96,000 | Not applicable | |
| National University of Singapore | 4 | 5.5% | $95,720 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 6 | 9.1% | $93,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 14 | 8.0% | $88,977 | Not applicable | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 5 | 21.7% | $86,527 | DKK 540,000 | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 12 | 20.7% | $86,500 | Not applicable | |
| George Washington | 4 | 12.1% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 4 | 14.8% | $82,000 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 17 | 13.4% | $81,490 | CN¥540,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 10 | 9.3% | $80,814 | £60,000 | |
| Hult | 13 | 13.5% | $80,800 | Not applicable | |
| Manchester | 5 | 10.0% | $79,152 | £58,766 | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 15.4% | $77,500 | Not applicable | |
| Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 9 | 12.3% | $76,667 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 3 | 8.8% | $73,460 | Not applicable | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 12 | 42.9% | $72,475 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Montreal | 4 | 8.9% | $70,154 | CA$90,000 | |
| ESADE | 12 | 11.2% | $64,755 | €54,293 | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 3 | 10.3% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 3 | 7.7% | $59,635 | €50,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 6 | 11.1% | $46,250 | Not applicable | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 4.5% | $37,726 | CN¥249,996 | |
| Indian School of Business | 27 | 3.2% | $32,553 | ₹2,400,000 | |
| Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 3 | 20.0% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 3 | 10.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 3 | 2.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.