Best Business School Rankings
2024–25
Best Business Schools Hiring:
Financial Industry
With median annual salaries hitting $200,000, financial services continues to be among the top three destinations for MBAs. Wharton (No. 7) and Harvard (No. 6) sent the most graduates into the financial industry—with 237 and 196, respectively. Still, the industry has faced some contraction and job-seeking b-school grads have seen the effects of it. Federal government jobs figures point to the number of finance jobs in the US starting to recover after slumping in the second half of 2023. But the broader category of white-collar jobs known as professional and business services, which includes MBA-level finance positions, has barely expanded in the past year.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 80 | 38.3% | $200,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 162 | 32.6% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 195 | 40.6% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 91 | 34.2% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 55 | 22.7% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 74 | 20.8% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 196 | 34.1% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 58 | 19.9% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 42 | 14.2% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 87 | 29.4% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 62 | 27.8% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 83 | 21.5% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 32 | 29.9% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 237 | 37.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 26 | 19.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 34 | 16.0% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 35 | 13.1% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 25 | 17.0% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 82 | 26.2% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 58 | 22.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 16 | 11.9% | $173,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 25 | 13.5% | $170,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 33 | 14.5% | $167,300 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 13 | 18.6% | $155,051 | €130,000 | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 56 | 25.2% | $147,500 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 4 | 3.9% | $145,000 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 10 | 8.9% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 18 | 14.1% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 5 | 11.9% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 29 | 20.1% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 12 | 38.7% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 95 | 26.6% | $134,690 | £100,000 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 7 | 6.6% | $132,500 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 3 | 10.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 21 | 35.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 7 | 20.0% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 13 | 28.9% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 10 | 23.3% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 13 | 20.0% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 23 | 26.4% | $124,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 25 | 35.2% | $122,500 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 6 | 9.5% | $120,830 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 3 | 6.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| George Washington | 10 | 25.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 10 | 28.6% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 6 | 9.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 4 | 8.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 4 | 15.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 7 | 13.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 71 | 13.3% | $119,270 | €100,000 | |
| HKUST | 16 | 37.2% | $118,548 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 11 | 16.9% | $118,500 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 65 | 23.2% | $118,152 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 15 | 25.4% | $117,821 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 4 | 10.5% | $113,856 | €95,461 | |
| ESADE | 16 | 15.8% | $109,971 | €92,203 | |
| IE | 34 | 20.4% | $109,728 | €92,000 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 58 | 27.2% | $107,752 | £80,000 | |
| Mannheim | 4 | 15.4% | $104,659 | €87,750 | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 4 | 14.3% | $103,750 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 14 | 26.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Miami | 9 | 33.3% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 27 | 23.7% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 9 | 28.1% | $92,000 | Not applicable | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 9 | 22.0% | $92,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 31 | 20.7% | $90,700 | Not applicable | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 4 | 17.4% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 3 | 13.6% | $88,333 | Not applicable | |
| San Diego (Knauss) | 5 | 38.5% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 5 | 27.8% | $85,000 | Not applicable | |
| ESIC | 4 | 11.8% | $83,489 | €70,000 | |
| Morgan State (Graves) | 5 | 20.8% | $80,000 | Not applicable | |
| Western (Ivey) | 17 | 19.1% | $77,948 | CA$100,000 | |
| EAE | 15 | 13.6% | $73,136 | €61,320 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 4 | 11.4% | $72,500 | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 12 | 31.6% | $71,713 | CA$92,000 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 13 | 26.0% | $68,860 | Not applicable | |
| Charleston | 6 | 14.6% | $67,500 | Not applicable | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 3 | 8.3% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 5 | 20.0% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 4 | 12.9% | $65,000 | Not applicable | |
| Mississippi | 5 | 27.8% | $63,000 | Not applicable | |
| EADA | 8 | 25.8% | $59,635 | €50,000 | |
| St. Gallen | 4 | 16.0% | $59,321 | CHF 54,000 | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 4 | 12.1% | $53,920 | Not applicable | |
| CEIBS | 15 | 16.5% | $52,063 | CN¥345,000 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 22 | 28.9% | $49,799 | CN¥330,000 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 7 | 10.0% | $42,862 | ₹3,160,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 89 | 11.0% | $42,116 | ₹3,105,000 | |
| IMT Ghaziabad | 42 | 23.0% | $20,346 | ₹1,500,000 | |
| Woxsen University | 72 | 27.4% | $11,529 | ₹850,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 5 | 13.5% | Not available | Not available | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 5 | 7.9% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.