MBA Ranking Based on Overall Starting Pay

Pay is important and one of the main reasons people go for MBAs. It's a good metric showing the quality of an MBA program and its career services. Here's the ranking of the top 15ish schools:

  1. Harvard: $149,784
  2. Dartmouth (Tuck): $148,025
  3. Wharton: $146,761
  4. Columbia: $146,436
  5. MIT (Sloan): $146,201
  6. Virginia (Darden): $146,136
  7. Stanford: $145,173
  8. Cornell (Johnson): $144,813
  9. Berkeley (Haas): $143,485
  10. Chicago (Booth): $143,475
  11. Duke (Fuqua): $143,382
  12. Michigan (Ross): $143,195
  13. Northwestern (Kellogg): $140,107 14: Yale SOM: $139,310
  14. NYU (Stern): $137,534
  15. UCLA (Anderson): $132,827
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Compensation post-MBA is certainly important, but these metrics make me think that the after-tax difference between the top dozen or so is fairly negligible. Makes me think other factors are more important when coming to decide which school is best...

 

This ranking is pretty useless unless you divide the list into top pays wrt the major industry classifications post MBA.

There is no magic formula or 1 size fits all for anyone who plans on pursuing an MBA.

 

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