Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Manufacturing accounted for 4.0% of all hires, sixth 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 and Yale School of Management MBA graduates earned a median salary of $150,000 in manufacturing, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. At $137,500, MIT’s Sloan school was third, and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton had the fourth highest, at $137,000. Northwestern’s Kellogg was fifth, at $126,000. INSEAD sent 21 graduates into manufacturing, the most of any school. Second was IE, at 18, followed by Brigham Young’s Marriott school, at 17. Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead school sent 33.3% of its MBA graduates into manufacturing, highest among all schools in the Bloomberg Businessweek business school ranking. At 26.9%, University of Tennessee’s Haslam school had the next highest, followed by Michigan State’s Broad school, at 22.6%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard | 16 | 2.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 4 | 1.7% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 14 | 4.9% | $137,500 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 5 | 0.8% | $137,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 12 | 3.2% | $126,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 7 | 1.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 7 | 2.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 5 | 1.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 8 | 2.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 14 | 4.4% | $123,500 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 3 | 3.2% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 5 | 2.3% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 16 | 9.2% | $118,556 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 4 | 1.8% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 14 | 7.3% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 7 | 15.9% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 10 | 12.5% | $114,500 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 14 | 21.2% | $113,740 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 4 | 4.9% | $113,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 7 | 3.6% | $113,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 21 | 3.8% | $112,700 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 7 | 9.6% | $112,103 | €93,991 | |
| IE | 18 | 7.0% | $110,265 | €92,450 | |
| Florida (Hough) | 7 | 12.1% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 12 | 8.7% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 3 | 6.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 12 | 22.6% | $109,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 7 | 10.6% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 5 | 7.2% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Mannheim | 6 | 16.2% | $104,361 | €87,500 | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 5 | 17.9% | $102,500 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 7 | 26.9% | $102,500 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 3 | 6.3% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 7 | 12.1% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 5.6% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 5 | 3.7% | $98,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 5 | 12.8% | $97,250 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 17 | 15.7% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 3 | 1.6% | $92,259 | £68,497 | |
| CEIBS | 14 | 11.0% | $89,865 | CN¥595,500 | |
| IESE Business School | 12 | 5.6% | $86,667 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 4 | 3.7% | $83,489 | €70,000 | |
| Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 5 | 6.8% | $77,501 | Not applicable | |
| UC at San Diego (Rady) | 3 | 16.7% | $77,000 | Not applicable | |
| National University of Singapore | 5 | 6.8% | $75,801 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 3 | 8.3% | $73,500 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 5 | 9.8% | $72,917 | Not applicable | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 9 | 16.7% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 3 | 7.7% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 12 | 12.5% | $63,300 | Not applicable | |
| Mississippi | 5 | 14.3% | $62,800 | Not applicable | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 4 | 13.8% | $58,716 | Not applicable | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 7 | 17.9% | $57,250 | €48,000 | |
| EAE | 6 | 3.3% | $51,197 | €42,925 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 3 | 11.5% | $50,666 | CA$65,000 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 10 | 11.1% | $48,000 | Not applicable | |
| Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 5 | 33.3% | $45,760 | Not applicable | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 8 | 11.0% | $36,623 | ₹2,700,000 | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 3 | 13.6% | $27,163 | CN¥180,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 7 | 0.8% | $25,772 | ₹1,900,000 | |
| Columbia | 3 | 0.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 4 | 11.4% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 7 | 9.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.