This section outlines the salary levels one can achieve after getting a MBA degree from a business school
Traditionally MBA students who graduate earn very high salaries compared to the
national average. MBA students are well paid and most sought after, especially students
from top ranked schools. The median figure indicates the middle tier of the MBA
salary packages. While there are many other school which may be attracting recruiters
who offer good salary packages, usually the top ranked schools are used as a salary
benchmark. See the salaries for top ranked schools. Remember, economic downturns
ususally have an adverse effect on MBA salaries and that can sometime reflect in
the salaries of students graduating that year.
| Rank | Business School / University | Pre MBA Salaries* |
Post MBA Median Total Pay Package |
Percent Increase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Univ. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $60,000 | $156,000 | 160% |
| 2 | Northwestern (Kellogg) | $56,000 | $142,000 | 154% |
| 3 | Stanford | $65,000 | $165,500 | 155% |
| 4 | Harvard | $65,000 | $160,000 | 146% |
| 5 | Columbia | $50,000 | $142,500 | 185% |
| 6 | Duke (Fuqua) | $49,000 | $128,500 | 162% |
| 7 | MIT (Sloan) | $55,000 | $149,000 | 171% |
| 8 | Chicago | $55,000 | $140,000 | 155% |
| 9 | Cornell (Johnson) | $50,000 | $135,000 | 170% |
| 10 | Dartmouth (Tuck) | $50,000 | $149,500 | 199% |
| 11 | Michigan | $50,000 | $131,000 | 162% |
| 12 | NYU (Stern) | $45,000 | $140,000 | 211% |
| 13 | UC -- Berkeley (Haas) | $50,000 | $135,000 | 170% |
| 14 | Virginia (Darden) | $50,000 | $135,000 | 170% |
| 15 | Yale | $45,000 | $130,000 | 189% |
| 16 | UCLA (Anderson) | $55,000 | $136,500 | 148% |
| 17 | Carnegie Mellon | $45,000 | $125,000 | 178% |
| 18 | UNC -- Chapel Hill | $48,000 | $125,000 | 160% |
| 19 | Texas -- Austin (McCombs) | $45,000 | $107,000 | 138% |
| 20 | Indiana (Kelley) | $42,000 | $114,000 | 171% |
| 21 | USC (Marshall) | $45,000 | $112,000 | 149% |
| 22 | Purdue (Krannert) | $35,000 | $101,500 | 190% |
| 23 | Rochester (Simon) | $40,000 | $110,000 | 175% |
| 24 | Georgetown (McDonough) | $45,000 | $116,000 | 158% |
| 25 | Washington U. (Olin) | $42,000 | $109,000 | 160% |
Note: These figures are estimates and not exact ones. They are based on the dynamic nature of MBA education. We do not guarantee that the numbers given here are the exact numbers for all the B-Schools.