Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
Technology accounted for 21.2% of all hires, second highest of any industry, among MBA graduates in their first jobs after business school among the 119 schools around the world that participated in the 2021-22 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs. EDHEC MBA graduates earned a median salary of $162,162 in technology, highest of all schools that participated in the business school ranking. Graduates of five schools earned a median salary of $140,000, second highest, including University of Chicago’s Booth school, Harvard, University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton, Stanford, and UC at Berkeley’s Haas. MIT’s Sloan school graduates had a median salary of $139,500, the seventh-highest level. INSEAD sent 135 graduates into technology, the most of any school. Second was Harvard, at 103, followed by London Business School, at 100. Texas A&M’s Mays and University of Utah’s Eccles sent 50% of their MBA graduates into technology, highest among all schools in the Bloomberg Businessweek business school ranking. At 47.8%, University of Washington’s Foster school had the next highest.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDHEC | 12 | 25.0% | $162,162 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 74 | 16.3% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 103 | 18.7% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 94 | 15.1% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 64 | 28.3% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 67 | 32.4% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 68 | 23.8% | $139,500 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 95 | 18.5% | $137,000 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 3 | 15.0% | $135,670 | CHF 123,500 | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 89 | 23.9% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 21 | 28.8% | $133,785 | €112,170 | |
| Hult | 13 | 13.5% | $133,300 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 30 | 12.7% | $131,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 60 | 31.4% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 38 | 16.2% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 36 | 15.1% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 91 | 27.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 32 | 16.6% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 78 | 24.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 48 | 16.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 40 | 18.4% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 15 | 21.7% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 75 | 31.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 41 | 27.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 59 | 20.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 54 | 47.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 19 | 20.0% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 8 | 10.0% | $127,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 9 | 31.0% | $126,500 | Not applicable | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 13 | 29.5% | $126,000 | Not applicable | |
| Babson (Olin) | 19 | 21.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 10 | 35.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 17 | 22.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 17 | 25.8% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 29 | 20.4% | $122,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 17 | 20.7% | $121,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 68 | 31.8% | $121,500 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 22 | 16.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 8 | 28.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 9 | 16.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 29 | 21.0% | $119,500 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 6 | 17.6% | $119,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 21 | 31.8% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 34 | 31.5% | $114,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 11 | 17.2% | $113,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Davis | 8 | 33.3% | $112,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cranfield | 4 | 20.0% | $111,793 | £83,000 | |
| UC at San Diego (Rady) | 6 | 33.3% | $111,730 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 22 | 50.0% | $111,250 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 11 | 27.5% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Mannheim | 15 | 40.5% | $109,728 | €92,000 | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 20 | 37.7% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 100 | 29.9% | $107,752 | £80,000 | |
| Manchester | 7 | 14.0% | $107,752 | £80,000 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 17 | 17.5% | $107,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 38 | 17.7% | $106,889 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 59 | 23.0% | $106,150 | €89,000 | |
| Florida (Hough) | 13 | 22.4% | $106,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 10 | 37.0% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 10 | 22.7% | $103,335 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 9 | 13.6% | $102,850 | Not applicable | |
| San Diego | 8 | 36.4% | $102,599 | Not applicable | |
| Miami (Herbert) | 6 | 24.0% | $102,000 | Not applicable | |
| HEC Paris | 41 | 23.6% | $100,772 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 44 | 23.8% | $100,754 | £74,804 | |
| Howard | 5 | 31.3% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 6 | 23.1% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 7 | 30.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 6 | 15.4% | $98,000 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 17 | 50.0% | $97,500 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 135 | 24.6% | $95,800 | Not applicable | |
| Erasmus (Rotterdam) | 9 | 12.3% | $95,680 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 4 | 9.1% | $95,513 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 5 | 8.6% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 26 | 24.3% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| Imperial College London | 9 | 22.5% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 5 | 21.7% | $93,257 | DKK 582,000 | |
| ESADE | 28 | 26.2% | $90,788 | €76,120 | |
| George Washington | 3 | 9.1% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 5 | 19.2% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| EADA | 4 | 11.4% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 8 | 20.5% | $83,000 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 27 | 21.3% | $82,999 | CN¥550,000 | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 8 | 22.9% | $78,500 | Not applicable | |
| Hong Kong (HKUST) | 12 | 27.3% | $77,357 | HK$600,000 | |
| Bentley | 4 | 23.5% | $75,500 | Not applicable | |
| American (Kogod) | 3 | 20.0% | $75,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 10 | 19.6% | $72,917 | Not applicable | |
| National University of Singapore | 23 | 31.5% | $72,636 | Not applicable | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 6 | 11.8% | $72,297 | CA$92,750 | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 3 | 10.3% | $72,000 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 15 | 32.6% | $70,000 | Not applicable | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 4 | 7.4% | $70,000 | Not applicable | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 5 | 17.9% | $66,000 | Not applicable | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 4 | 16.7% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 8 | 20.5% | $64,406 | €54,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 10 | 38.5% | $58,461 | CA$75,000 | |
| EAE | 3 | 1.6% | $57,041 | €47,825 | |
| HEC Montreal | 10 | 22.2% | $56,318 | CA$72,250 | |
| Ryerson (Rogers) | 5 | 31.3% | $55,343 | CA$71,000 | |
| Mississippi | 4 | 11.4% | $46,338 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 4 | 11.1% | $45,840 | Not applicable | |
| Indian School of Business | 57 | 6.8% | $33,910 | ₹2,500,000 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 28 | 38.4% | $33,611 | ₹2,478,000 | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 4 | 18.2% | $30,181 | CN¥200,000 | |
| ESMT Berlin | 5 | 22.7% | Not available | Not available | |
| Houston (Bauer) | 5 | 33.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 5 | 14.7% | Not available | Not available | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.