Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Manufacturing accounted for 3.5% of all hires, the sixth highest of any industry, among graduates in their first jobs after business school. Politecnico di Milano School of Management, located in Italy's commercial and business center, sent 30.8% of its MBA graduates into manufacturing, the biggest share among all schools in the Best B-Schools ranking. The school notes that its grads' strong competence in supply chain management, operations, and smart manufacturing, positioning them for jobs that focus on introducing innovations into production and manufacturing. At 30.3%, University of Tennessee’s Haslam school was a close second, followed by Penn State’s Smeal school, at 29.7%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 8 | 1.4% | $142,500 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 13 | 4.7% | $141,500 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 16 | 3.0% | $135,500 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 10 | 2.9% | $132,500 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 4 | 2.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 12 | 2.6% | $129,500 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 8 | 1.7% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 4 | 12.1% | $126,640 | CHF 115,280 | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 10 | 2.7% | $126,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 10 | 5.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 11 | 4.5% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 3 | 1.4% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 11 | 3.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 4 | 2.0% | $122,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 9 | 15.0% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 21 | 4.0% | $119,800 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 4 | 4.4% | $119,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 5 | 9.4% | $117,900 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 6 | 6.2% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 5 | 4.0% | $116,187 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 11 | 17.7% | $116,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 14 | 25.5% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 4 | 3.9% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 4 | 5.6% | $113,827 | €95,436 | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 11 | 29.7% | $113,500 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 4 | 6.9% | $112,159 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 10 | 30.3% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 4 | 8.9% | $105,868 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 10 | 9.1% | $105,600 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 3 | 5.1% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 5 | 6.3% | $104,000 | Not applicable | |
| Mannheim | 6 | 16.2% | $103,765 | €87,000 | |
| Rice (Jones) | 5 | 6.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 6.7% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 5 | 16.7% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 3 | 3.0% | $88,000 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 8 | 12.5% | $87,500 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 4 | 3.5% | $82,917 | €69,520 | |
| HEC Montreal | 6 | 16.2% | $80,287 | CA$103,000 | |
| San Diego (Knauss) | 3 | 16.7% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 6 | 15.0% | $77,500 | Not applicable | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 3 | 8.8% | $74,000 | Not applicable | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 6 | 12.0% | $66,500 | Not applicable | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 3 | 16.7% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 13 | 10.3% | $64,135 | CN¥425,000 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 6 | 10.0% | $63,398 | CA$81,333 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 4.5% | $63,381 | CN¥420,000 | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 5 | 10.6% | $62,500 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 8 | 4.6% | $61,939 | €51,932 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 3 | 11.1% | $61,189 | CA$78,500 | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 11 | 21.2% | $59,952 | HK$465,000 | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 12 | 30.8% | $47,708 | €40,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 8 | 1.2% | $33,232 | ₹2,450,000 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 4 | 8.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 3 | 3.2% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 4 | 1.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 3 | 0.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 3 | 4.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 8 | 3.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 3 | 0.9% | Not available | Not available | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 3 | 9.4% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 3 | 3.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.