Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The real estate industry accounted for 2.0% of all hires, eighth 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 $150,000 in real estate, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. At $135,000, Columbia and Harvard had second highest. University of Chicago’s Booth school had fourth highest, at $127,500. IE was next, at $125,234. North Carolina Kenana-Flagler sent 23 graduates into real estate, the most of any school. Second was University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton, at 17, followed by Indian School of Business, at 15. University of Miami’s Herbert school sent 20.0% of its MBA graduates into the real estate industry, highest among all schools in the Bloomberg Businessweek business school ranking. At 14.1%, Southern Methodist University’s Cox school had the next highest, followed by North Carolina Kenan-Flager, at 10.6%.
school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
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Stanford | 6 | 2.7% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
Columbia | 8 | 1.6% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
Harvard | 9 | 1.6% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
Chicago (Booth) | 9 | 2.0% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
IE | 4 | 1.6% | $125,233 | €105,000 | |
Emory (Goizueta) | 4 | 3.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
USC (Marshall) | 6 | 3.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
UCLA (Anderson) | 14 | 6.0% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 17 | 2.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 23 | 10.6% | $108,750 | Not applicable | |
Georgetown (McDonough) | 6 | 3.1% | $107,000 | Not applicable | |
Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 8 | 3.7% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 5 | 2.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
Hult | 3 | 3.1% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
Boston College (Carroll) | 3 | 6.8% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
Miami (Herbert) | 5 | 20.0% | $82,500 | Not applicable | |
INSEAD | 7 | 1.3% | $81,700 | Not applicable | |
Southern Methodist (Cox) | 9 | 14.1% | $81,500 | Not applicable | |
Babson (Olin) | 3 | 3.3% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
CEIBS | 7 | 5.5% | $78,472 | CN¥520,000 | |
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 4.5% | $45,272 | CN¥300,000 | |
ESIC | 4 | 7.8% | $38,279 | Not applicable | |
Indian School of Business | 15 | 1.8% | $33,910 | ₹2,500,000 | |
Dartmouth (Tuck) | 3 | 1.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
IESE Business School | 3 | 1.4% | Not available | Not applicable | |
London Business School | 3 | 0.9% | Not available | Not available | |
SUNY at Buffalo | 3 | 5.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Vanderbilt (Owen) | 5 | 3.5% | Not available | Not applicable |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.