Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The retail industry accounted for 2.2% of all hires, seventh 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. University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton MBA graduates earned a median salary of $140,000 in retail, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. At $130,000, Boston University’s Questrom school, Dartmouth’s Tuck school, University of Georgia’s Terry, University of Indiana’s Kelley, University of Minnesota’s Carlson, and Yale School of Management, had second highest. Yale sent 21 graduates into real estate, the most of any school. Second was University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton, at 20, followed by HEC Paris, at 15. ESMT Berlin sent 18.2% of its MBA graduates into the retail industry, highest among all schools in the Bloomberg Businessweek business school ranking. At 17.2%, Georgia had the next highest, followed by College of Charleston, at 12.0%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 20 | 3.2% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 4 | 4.1% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 7 | 2.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 5 | 17.2% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 9 | 6.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 4 | 5.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 21 | 8.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 3 | 1.6% | $125,041 | €104,839 | |
| Florida (Hough) | 4 | 6.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 5 | 1.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 6 | 2.1% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 12 | 3.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 14 | 4.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 3 | 1.3% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 11 | 3.3% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 6 | 2.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 4 | 6.3% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 5 | 7.6% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 3 | 5.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 4 | 5.5% | $102,856 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 7 | 9.6% | $93,518 | €78,409 | |
| HEC Paris | 15 | 8.6% | $90,102 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 6 | 1.1% | $88,900 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 6 | 1.8% | $81,601 | £60,584 | |
| Manchester | 5 | 10.0% | $78,082 | £57,972 | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 3 | 5.2% | $68,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 3 | 1.4% | $64,656 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 5 | 3.9% | $63,854 | CN¥423,136 | |
| EADA | 3 | 8.6% | $61,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 4 | 7.8% | $54,081 | Not applicable | |
| College of Charleston | 3 | 12.0% | $48,500 | Not applicable | |
| ESMT Berlin | 4 | 18.2% | Not available | Not available | |
| Harvard | 5 | 0.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| IE | 3 | 1.2% | Not available | Not available | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 3 | 1.6% | Not available | Not available | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 3 | 3.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 3 | 1.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 3 | 2.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.