Best Business School Rankings
2024–25
Best Business Schools Hiring:
Technology Industry
In 2024 technology remains among the top three industries hiring MBAs—accounting for 2,264 hires from 104 participating business schools. Topping the list: Indian School of Business (No. 5 in Asia), which sent 148 graduates into tech industry jobs, followed by Wharton, which sent 103. The industry is undergoing a big secular shift, with generative AI likely to create opportunities and potential disruption in the tools used by knowledge workers. While Big Tech remains at the forefront of this generative AI wave, you can expect a number of AI native companies—Open AI and Anthropic, as two examples—to focus on productivity and workflow automation using advancements in AI models and algorithms. The need to modernize datacenter infrastructure and an emphasis in the US on making chips domestically for emerging areas such as robotics will only add to the prominence of tech companies across hardware, software and services.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (US dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 51 | 24.4% | $177,500 | Not applicable | |
| SDA Bocconi | 5 | 7.1% | $174,134 | €146,000 | |
| George Washington | 6 | 15.4% | $170,000 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 3 | 9.7% | $170,000 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 26 | 10.0% | $166,500 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 7 | 10.9% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 103 | 16.2% | $161,875 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 33 | 13.6% | $160,500 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 67 | 14.0% | $160,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 93 | 16.2% | $158,050 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 70 | 24.0% | $157,100 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 68 | 29.8% | $157,100 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 77 | 15.5% | $157,048 | Not applicable | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 12 | 28.6% | $155,500 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 63 | 16.3% | $155,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 33 | 10.5% | $155,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 59 | 16.6% | $153,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 45 | 15.2% | $153,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 42 | 14.2% | $152,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 27 | 20.0% | $145,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 8 | 17.0% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 53 | 28.6% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 40 | 18.0% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 27 | 21.1% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 27 | 12.1% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 60 | 22.5% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Washington (Foster) | 33 | 32.0% | $142,800 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 12 | 18.5% | $142,400 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 26 | 29.9% | $142,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 34 | 23.1% | $142,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Davis | 5 | 20.8% | $141,050 | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 15 | 30.6% | $140,000 | Not applicable | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 4 | 12.5% | $138,250 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 29 | 10.9% | $138,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 31 | 14.6% | $136,500 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 10 | 22.2% | $136,400 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 9 | 32.1% | $136,200 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 16 | 15.0% | $135,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 24 | 22.6% | $134,500 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 16 | 11.1% | $133,000 | Not applicable | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 11 | 18.6% | $131,970 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 3 | 12.0% | $130,177 | CHF 118,500 | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 19 | 14.1% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 6 | 27.3% | $129,833 | Not applicable | |
| Florida (Warrington) | 4 | 13.3% | $127,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 3 | 8.6% | $126,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 3 | 7.0% | $126,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 18 | 28.6% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 6 | 16.2% | $124,225 | Not applicable | |
| INSEAD | 47 | 8.8% | $123,802 | €103,800 | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 34 | 30.4% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 5 | 11.1% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Mannheim | 6 | 23.1% | $118,435 | €99,300 | |
| IMD | 4 | 6.3% | $116,889 | Not applicable | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 3 | 4.6% | $114,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 85 | 23.8% | $113,678 | £84,400 | |
| IE | 34 | 20.4% | $112,472 | €94,300 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 45 | 21.1% | $107,752 | £80,000 | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 6 | 23.1% | $107,478 | Not applicable | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 4 | 7.5% | $107,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rutgers | 3 | 21.4% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 19 | 6.8% | $102,779 | Not applicable | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 7 | 11.7% | $102,500 | Not applicable | |
| ESADE | 23 | 22.8% | $100,183 | €83,997 | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 3 | 4.2% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 26 | 17.3% | $98,700 | Not applicable | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 5 | 27.8% | $98,660 | Not applicable | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 8 | 22.9% | $97,500 | Not applicable | |
| ESMT Berlin | 7 | 58.3% | $95,416 | €80,000 | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 6 | 11.8% | $95,000 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 8 | 29.6% | $94,800 | Not applicable | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 18 | 15.8% | $94,283 | £70,000 | |
| EDHEC | 7 | 18.4% | $91,664 | €76,854 | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 3 | 6.0% | $90,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 3 | 8.6% | $84,250 | Not applicable | |
| Cranfield | 6 | 25.0% | $84,181 | £62,500 | |
| EAE | 4 | 3.6% | $79,767 | €66,879 | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 8 | 24.2% | $79,750 | Not applicable | |
| Charleston | 5 | 12.2% | $79,420 | Not applicable | |
| Western (Ivey) | 4 | 4.5% | $74,051 | CA$95,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 7 | 18.9% | $67,230 | CA$86,250 | |
| CEIBS | 14 | 15.4% | $65,192 | CN¥432,000 | |
| EADA | 3 | 9.7% | $62,020 | €52,000 | |
| HKUST | 6 | 14.0% | $54,715 | Not applicable | |
| SP Jain | 5 | 25.0% | $50,007 | ₹3,686,720 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 5 | 6.6% | $49,799 | CN¥330,000 | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 27 | 38.6% | $44,259 | ₹3,263,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 148 | 18.3% | $43,405 | ₹3,200,000 | |
| Shanghai University MBA Centre | 4 | 20.0% | $35,576 | CN¥235,750 | |
| IMT Ghaziabad | 58 | 31.7% | $23,873 | ₹1,760,000 | |
| Woxsen University | 64 | 24.3% | $13,225 | ₹975,000 | |
| ESIC | 3 | 8.8% | Not available | Not available | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 3 | 7.9% | Not available | Not available | |
| Miami | 4 | 14.8% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| POLIMI Graduate School of Management | 7 | 17.9% | Not available | Not available | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 3 | 9.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.