Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
The retail industry accounted for 2.1% of all hires, seventh highest of the industries included in this year's ranking. Northwestern’s Kellogg school MBA graduates earned a median salary of $150,000 in retail, the highest of all participating schools. At $144,000, IMD had the second highest, followed by Wharton at $140,000. The school that sent the biggest share of graduates into retail jobs was Syracuse University’s Whitman, with 23.1% of MBA graduates taking retail jobs; the school’s retail management program exposes its graduates to recruiting opportunities with major US and global companies.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 7 | 1.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 3 | 5.0% | $144,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 13 | 2.3% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 6 | 1.1% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 5 | 13.2% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 5 | 1.7% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 24 | 10.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 6 | 1.8% | $127,838 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 6 | 3.4% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 10 | 9.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 6 | 2.4% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 7 | 2.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 7 | 3.3% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 4 | 3.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 9 | 2.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 5 | 7.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 7 | 4.3% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 8 | 11.3% | $111,928 | €93,844 | |
| INSEAD | 6 | 1.2% | $111,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 7 | 15.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 4 | 6.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 4 | 6.9% | $108,229 | Not applicable | |
| ESMT Berlin | 4 | 22.2% | $103,765 | €87,000 | |
| IESE Business School | 8 | 3.1% | $97,482 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 8 | 8.0% | $90,100 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 6 | 5.2% | $81,104 | €68,000 | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 4 | 4.7% | $79,507 | CA$102,000 | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 3 | 23.1% | $75,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 3 | 5.6% | $73,470 | €61,600 | |
| CEIBS | 3 | 2.4% | $63,079 | CN¥418,000 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 3 | 0.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| IE | 4 | 2.3% | Not available | Not available | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 3 | 6.4% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 3 | 1.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| National University of Singapore | 3 | 4.5% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.