Best Business School Rankings
2024–25
Best Business Schools Hiring:
Consumer Products Industry
The consumer retail industry is most exposed to macro-economic trends, which fluctuate all the time and dictate spending behavior. This plays a vital role in determining the pace of sales and margin gains. Demographics, fashion, online vs. in store sales, and a company's social commerce presence all influence consumer spending. Preferences also matter—for example, traveling more after Covid means consumers are spending less on goods. All this combines to make the consumer products industry a rich and diverse one for MBAs. Partcipating schools sent 628 graduates into such jobs—Rutgers accounts for 21.4%, the biggest share of these hires; Brigham Young Marriott (No. 34) saw 20.5% of its grads go into consumer products, or 1/5 of its graduating class.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 6 | 2.9% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 4 | 1.4% | $146,250 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 3 | 4.3% | $144,317 | €121,000 | |
| IMD | 6 | 9.5% | $143,004 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 21 | 3.7% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 9 | 3.9% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 4 | 14.8% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 26 | 6.7% | $128,500 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 23 | 20.5% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 5 | 16.7% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 16 | 5.4% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 6 | 0.9% | $128,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 4 | 3.9% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 4 | 6.3% | $127,500 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 3 | 1.6% | $127,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 5 | 2.2% | $127,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 4 | 9.3% | $127,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 13 | 5.4% | $126,500 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 21 | 5.9% | $125,650 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 10 | 3.8% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 18 | 14.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 9 | 3.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 7 | 8.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 13 | 6.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 7 | 2.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 11 | 2.2% | $124,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 8 | 5.6% | $123,500 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 5 | 3.7% | $122,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 12 | 16.9% | $121,500 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 3 | 9.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 3 | 10.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 23 | 8.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 9 | 6.1% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 12 | 18.5% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 7 | 1.3% | $119,628 | €100,300 | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 11 | 10.3% | $119,203 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 10 | 4.5% | $118,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 8 | 2.6% | $117,500 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 5 | 8.3% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 4 | 3.0% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 3 | 8.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 3 | 4.6% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 10.8% | $110,000 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 16 | 9.6% | $108,192 | €90,712 | |
| Rutgers | 3 | 21.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 6 | 11.3% | $95,560 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 7 | 6.9% | $89,452 | €75,000 | |
| Hult | 16 | 10.7% | $88,200 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 4 | 7.8% | $83,500 | Not applicable | |
| EAE | 16 | 14.5% | $79,732 | €66,850 | |
| ESIC | 7 | 20.6% | $77,525 | €65,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 5 | 10.0% | $70,000 | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 5 | 13.2% | $62,967 | CA$80,780 | |
| CEIBS | 7 | 7.7% | $55,836 | CN¥370,000 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 3 | 3.9% | $52,063 | CN¥345,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 63 | 7.8% | $47,474 | ₹3,500,000 | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 4 | 20.0% | $38,481 | CN¥255,000 | |
| IMT Ghaziabad | 14 | 7.7% | $25,093 | ₹1,850,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 3 | 2.6% | Not available | Not available | |
| Columbia | 5 | 1.0% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 3 | 1.1% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 3 | 0.8% | Not available | Not available | |
| Miami | 4 | 14.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 4 | 12.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.