Best Business School Rankings 2025–26
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Financial Industry
The financial services industry also ranks among the three most popular destinations for B-school grads. High salaries have historically been a key draw, realized in a variety of roles tailored for MBAs, from financial analysts to managers, personal financial advisers to investment analysts. Long-term demand for these jobs will be strong, according to projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which says business and financial occupations will grow faster than the average jobs between 2023 and 2033.
Financial services is the second best paid among 26 industries reported in survey data used for our Business School ROI calculator, with median compensation (salary plus bonus) of $204,177, or 20% more than the median for all fields.
| School | Number of Hires | Percentage of Hires | Median salary (US dollars) | Median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stanford | 74 | 37.4% | $200,000 | Not applicable | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 32 | 15.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 144 | 32.9% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Columbia | 215 | 38.4% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 78 | 26.5% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 15 | 21.4% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Harvard | 212 | 39.1% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 86 | 41.7% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rice (Jones) | 27 | 27.3% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 26 | 16.7% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 48 | 17.6% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 56 | 25.1% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| NYU (Stern) | 82 | 35.5% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 53 | 24.4% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 205 | 36.7% | $175,000 | Not applicable | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 69 | 24.6% | $173,000 | Not applicable | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 67 | 18.2% | $173,000 | Not applicable | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 26 | 23.4% | $172,500 | Not applicable | |
| Yale | 60 | 26.2% | $171,000 | Not applicable | |
| USC (Marshall) | 15 | 12.7% | $165,000 | Not applicable | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 27 | 15.6% | $162,500 | Not applicable | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 7 | 7.9% | $162,500 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 37 | 21.4% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 38 | 22.9% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 17 | 28.8% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 26 | 19.1% | $150,000 | Not applicable | |
| St. Gallen | 6 | 28.6% | $149,908 | CHF 130,000 | |
| SDA Bocconi | 9 | 15.3% | $145,379 | €133,763 | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 5 | 10.9% | $145,000 | Not applicable | |
| IMD | 7 | 15.9% | $137,372 | CHF 119,129 | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 18 | 60.0% | $134,000 | Not applicable | |
| IESE Business School | 29 | 14.0% | $133,699 | Not applicable | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 12 | 18.5% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 15 | 17.6% | $130,000 | Not applicable | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 8 | 21.6% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 9 | 25.7% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 14 | 14.1% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 4 | 22.2% | $125,000 | Not applicable | |
| EDHEC | 6 | 13.6% | $121,501 | €111,793 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 7 | 14.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 16 | 30.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 5 | 13.9% | $120,000 | Not applicable | |
| London Business School | 72 | 21.8% | $116,399 | £90,000 | |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 5 | 18.5% | $116,000 | Not applicable | |
| North Carolina State (Jenkins) | 4 | 25.0% | $115,000 | Not applicable | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 4 | 14.8% | $114,000 | Not applicable | |
| Miami | 6 | 21.4% | $112,500 | Not applicable | |
| IE | 30 | 21.1% | $112,080 | €103,125 | |
| INSEAD | 67 | 16.7% | $105,206 | €96,800 | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 3 | 11.1% | $105,000 | Not applicable | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 3 | 7.1% | $104,000 | Not applicable | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 3 | 10.7% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Morgan State (Graves) | 3 | 18.8% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 10 | 25.0% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Wisconsin | 11 | 23.4% | $100,000 | Not applicable | |
| Hult | 39 | 26.7% | $99,800 | Not applicable | |
| Cranfield | 6 | 22.2% | $93,766 | £72,500 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 29 | 26.4% | $90,533 | £70,000 | |
| POLIMI Graduate School of Management | 3 | 7.9% | $83,687 | €77,000 | |
| EAE | 12 | 13.3% | $81,513 | €75,000 | |
| ESIC | 8 | 19.0% | $79,883 | €73,500 | |
| HKUST | 17 | 38.6% | $78,218 | HK$609,290 | |
| ESADE | 13 | 13.8% | $76,166 | €70,080 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 8 | 17.4% | $75,253 | CA$105,000 | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 5 | 25.0% | $74,383 | Not applicable | |
| Western (Ivey) | 12 | 15.6% | $73,461 | CA$102,500 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 4 | 22.2% | $72,500 | Not applicable | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 4 | 11.1% | $69,500 | Not applicable | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 8 | 36.4% | $68,086 | CA$95,000 | |
| Charleston | 3 | 8.8% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| EADA | 6 | 30.0% | $60,000 | Not applicable | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 4 | 12.1% | $53,920 | Not applicable | |
| Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | 7 | 9.6% | $47,016 | ₹4,000,000 | |
| Shanghai University of Finance and Economics | 36 | 38.3% | $42,671 | CN¥308,000 | |
| Indian School of Business | 69 | 8.8% | $35,262 | ₹3,000,000 | |
| IMT Ghaziabad | 42 | 23.0% | $17,631 | ₹1,500,000 | |
| T A Pai Management Institute | 183 | 36.6% | $16,162 | ₹1,375,000 | |
| Woxsen University | 79 | 34.2% | $10,696 | ₹910,000 | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 3 | 60.0% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Tulane (Freeman) | 3 | 27.3% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 3 | 10.7% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 3 | 13.6% | Not available | Not applicable | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 52 | 32.7% | Not available | Not available | |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.