Last Updated on February 13, 2023 by MBA Gateway Team
Salaries and Signing Bonuses
Salary and signing bonus data – we’re going to present this without a ton of editorializing but want to point out that salaries tend to be higher at higher- ranked schools, likely because the mix of jobs that students take is more weighted to high-paying jobs like consulting and financial services/banking.
FIGURE 19.2: SALARY AND SIGNING BONUS AT TOP 30 MBA PROGRAMS (CLASS OF 2020)
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* = Denotes mean salary or signing bonus
Locations of Accepted Jobs
For the most part, most schools’ graduates end up in the same region as their MBA program (two notable exceptions are Northwestern Kellogg and CMU Tepper, which send the largest percentage of students to the West Coast). But the coasts are both fairly accessible from schools in a variety of locations.
FIGURE 19.3: LOCATION OF JOB ACCEPTANCES FOR TOP 30 MBA PROGRAMS (CLASS OF 2020)
| Business School | School Region | West | Southwest | South | Midwest | Mid-Atlantic | Northeast | International | |
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Stanford GSB |
West |
60.0% |
4.0% |
3.0% |
2.0% |
1.0% |
20.0% |
11.0% |
|
|
Wharton (UPenn) |
Mid-Atlantic |
26.8% |
2.9% |
3.6% |
3.4% |
8.3% |
41.6% |
13.4% |
|
|
Chicago Booth |
Midwest |
24.6% |
5.9% |
3.3% |
32.7% |
2.2% |
22.6% |
8.6% |
|
|
Northwestern Kellogg |
Midwest |
33.0% |
5.5% |
5.5% |
28.0% |
9.0% |
9.0% |
11.0% |
|
|
Harvard Business School |
Northeast |
25.0% |
6.0% |
3.0% |
8.0% |
3.0% |
41.0% |
14.0% |
|
|
MIT Sloan |
Northeast |
29.7% |
4.9% |
4.2% |
2.8% |
2.8% |
44.1% |
11.5% |
|
|
Columbia Business School |
Northeast |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
|
|
Berkeley Haas |
West |
74.9% |
1.9% |
1.0% |
3.9% |
1.4% |
7.7% |
9.2% |
|
|
Yale SOM |
Northeast |
25.4% |
6.0% |
3.0% |
5.1% |
6.4% |
40.9% |
12.9% |
|
|
Dartmouth Tuck |
Northeast |
21.0% |
5.0% |
4.0% |
10.0% |
3.0% |
49.0% |
7.0% |
|
|
NYU Stern |
Northeast |
10.9% |
1.1% |
0.7% |
1.5% |
2.2% |
76.0% |
7.6% |
|
|
Duke Fuqua |
South |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
|
|
Michigan Ross |
Midwest |
26.7% |
6.6% |
4.4% |
30.2% |
3.8% |
19.8% |
8.5% |
|
|
UVA Darden |
Mid-Atlantic |
14.3% |
14.3% |
12.4% |
4.8% |
22.0% |
28.7% |
4.5% |
|
|
Cornell Johnson |
Northeast |
15.0% |
9.0% |
7.0% |
11.0% |
5.0% |
50.0% |
3.0% |
|
|
CMU Tepper |
Mid-Atlantic |
28.0% |
6.3% |
2.6% |
12.7% |
15.9% |
27.0% |
7.4% |
|
|
USC Marshall |
West |
88.0% |
3.0% |
0.0% |
3.0% |
2.0% |
2.0% |
2.0% |
|
|
UCLA Anderson |
West |
80.1% |
2.5% |
0.7% |
2.1% |
0.7% |
3.8% |
10.2% |
|
|
UT McCombs |
Southwest |
19.7% |
60.6% |
3.3% |
4.7% |
2.8% |
5.6% |
3.3% |
|
UNC Kenan-Flagler |
South |
16.0% |
11.0% |
37.0% |
5.0% |
12.0% |
18.0% |
1.0% |
|
|
Georgetown McDonough |
Mid-Atlantic |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
|
|
Washington Foster |
West |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
1.0% |
|
|
Indiana Kelley |
Midwest |
17.0% |
9.0% |
7.0% |
46.0% |
7.0% |
12.0% |
3.0% |
|
|
Vanderbilt Owen |
South |
12.0% |
7.0% |
42.0% |
10.0% |
5.0% |
24.0% |
0.0% |
|
|
Rice Jones |
Southwest |
13.8% |
66.0% |
1.1% |
5.3% |
6.4% |
6.4% |
0.0% |
|
|
Emory Goizueta |
South |
12.0% |
3.0% |
58.0% |
5.0% |
5.0% |
15.0% |
3.0% |
|
|
Georgia Tech Scheller |
South |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
NA |
|
|
Minnesota Carlson |
Midwest |
10.0% |
6.0% |
0.0% |
79.0% |
1.0% |
3.0% |
1.0% |
|
|
Arizona State Carey |
Southwest |
32.0% |
35.0% |
12.0% |
6.0% |
6.0% |
9.0% |
0.0% |
