Best Business School Rankings
2024–25
Best Business Schools Hiring:
Consulting Industry
The consulting industry remains a top choice for business graduates—the industry again accounted for the largest number of hires (4,126*) from the schools in our ranking. INSEAD (No. 5 in Europe) had the largest number of grads, 326, take consulting jobs. Chicago Booth (No. 2 in the US rankings) led the pack in the US, with 192 of its MBAs working in the industry. The past two years have been marked by a slowdown, driven largely by corporations cutting back on their discretionary spending. This could be a factor of higher inflation and rising rates, along with enterprises spending more of their budgets on generative AI infrastructure at the expense of areas such as consulting. Next year could see a rebound in demand, which in turn could lead to better employment opportunities. *Hiring figures refer to the number of MBAs who reported accepting a job offer within three months of graduation.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago (Booth) | 192 | 38.6% | $192,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 140 | 24.3% | $192,000 | Not applicable | |
| Stanford | 31 | 14.8% | $192,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 63 | 27.6% | $192,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 140 | 29.2% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 108 | 40.6% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 111 | 45.9% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 152 | 42.7% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 98 | 33.6% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 133 | 44.9% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 158 | 40.9% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 183 | 28.8% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 145 | 46.3% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 115 | 44.2% | $190,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 124 | 41.9% | $188,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 70 | 26.2% | $182,500 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 78 | 42.2% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 73 | 54.1% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 4 | 13.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 78 | 35.1% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 37 | 57.8% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 35 | 27.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 20 | 30.8% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 52 | 23.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 26 | 24.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 10 | 22.2% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 35 | 25.9% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 11 | 25.6% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 6 | 16.2% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 91 | 42.7% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 41 | 27.9% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 60 | 41.7% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 28 | 27.2% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 15 | 23.8% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 13 | 27.7% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 17 | 23.9% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 6 | 6.6% | $150,066 | CN¥994,425 | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 8 | 13.3% | $146,000 | Not applicable | |
| Western (Ivey) | 48 | 53.9% | $140,307 | CA$180,000 | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 17 | 19.5% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 92 | 32.9% | $139,151 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 17 | 24.3% | $137,972 | €115,680 | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 8 | 25.0% | $137,500 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 7 | 6.3% | $137,500 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 10 | 23.8% | $137,500 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 7 | 13.2% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 326 | 61.0% | $134,775 | €113,000 | |
| London Business School | 139 | 38.9% | $134,690 | £100,000 | |
| Mannheim | 4 | 15.4% | $134,179 | €112,500 | |
| George Washington | 8 | 20.5% | $133,750 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Davis | 4 | 16.7% | $133,182 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 10 | 28.6% | $132,000 | Not applicable | |
| HKUST | 7 | 16.3% | $125,884 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 42 | 25.1% | $123,722 | €103,733 | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 8 | 13.6% | $123,583 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 25 | 39.7% | $123,317 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 24 | 22.6% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 8 | 17.8% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 68 | 31.9% | $114,486 | £85,000 | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 4 | 14.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 3 | 11.5% | $108,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 28 | 27.7% | $106,002 | €88,876 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 3 | 7.3% | $102,500 | Not applicable | |
| POLIMI Graduate School of Management | 12 | 30.8% | $98,398 | €82,500 | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 4 | 7.8% | $96,500 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 8 | 21.1% | $96,488 | €80,899 | |
| Copenhagen Business School | 3 | 14.3% | $96,142 | DKK 600,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 31 | 27.2% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 3 | 8.6% | $92,000 | Not applicable | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 3 | 13.0% | $87,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 8 | 23.5% | $83,489 | €70,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 7 | 18.9% | $81,846 | CA$105,000 | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 8 | 32.0% | $80,250 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 9 | 6.0% | $75,200 | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 14 | 36.8% | $74,830 | CA$96,000 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 4 | 5.3% | $72,435 | CN¥480,000 | |
| Charleston | 3 | 7.3% | $70,000 | Not applicable | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 4 | 11.1% | $66,000 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 8 | 7.3% | $58,861 | €49,351 | |
| Indian School of Business | 282 | 34.8% | $47,440 | ₹3,497,500 | |
| EADA | 4 | 12.9% | $44,726 | €37,500 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 17 | 24.3% | $43,690 | ₹3,221,000 | |
| SP Jain | 9 | 45.0% | $37,437 | ₹2,760,000 | |
| IMT Ghaziabad | 19 | 10.4% | $16,819 | ₹1,240,000 | |
| Woxsen University | 11 | 4.2% | $10,851 | ₹800,000 | |
| Alberta | 6 | 23.1% | Not available | Not available | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.