The 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs finds that the consumer products industry hires the fourth-highest number of graduates. The difference in hiring between the third-highest industry, technology, and consumer products is large. Total hired in consumer products: 913 B-School graduates.
| School | Number of hires | Share of hires | Median salary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 47 | 12% | $106,500 | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 38 | 6% | $120,000 | |
| IE | 38 | 13% | $80,063 | |
| Hult | 38 | 15% | $90,190 | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 28 | 9% | $106,250 | |
| Harvard | 27 | 4% | $115,000 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 26 | 5% | $105,000 | |
| Columbia | 24 | 5% | $105,000 | |
| NYU (Stern) | 23 | 7% | $105,000 | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 23 | 17% | $102,500 | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 22 | 8% | $105,000 | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 22 | 15% | $110,000 | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 22 | 9% | $106,000 | |
| IESE Business School | 19 | 9% | $89,325 | |
| UT at Austin (McCombs) | 19 | 9% | $100,000 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 18 | 5% | $106,000 | |
| INSEAD | 18 | 2% | $78,000 | |
| USC (Marshall) | 18 | 11% | $105,000 | |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 16 | 7% | $102,500 | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 16 | 7% | $106,500 | |
| Wisconsin | 15 | 19% | $98,000 | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 14 | 7% | $105,000 | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 14 | 24% | $100,000 | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 14 | 22% | $97,000 | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 13 | 5% | $106,000 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 13 | 15% | $108,000 | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 10 | 18% | $90,000 | |
| Stanford | 9 | 4% | $112,000 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 9 | 10% | $80,000 | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 9 | 8% | $105,000 | |
| Florida (Hough) | 9 | 20% | $103,000 | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 9 | 20% | $107,500 | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 9 | 9% | $106,000 | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 9 | 19% | $100,000 | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 9 | 3% | $122,000 | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 8 | 13% | $100,500 | |
| SUNY University at Buffalo | 8 | 11% | $55,000 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 8 | 21% | $48,000 | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 8 | 6% | $105,000 | |
| CEIBS | 7 | 5% | $74,412 | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 7 | 13% | $99,000 | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 7 | 13% | $100,000 | |
| London Business School | 7 | 2% | $91,823 | |
| Western (Ivey) | 7 | 6% | $64,992 | |
| Melbourne | 7 | 19% | $78,331 | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 7 | 8% | $107,500 | |
| Yale | 7 | 3% | $105,000 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 6 | 8% | $107,000 | |
| ESIC | 6 | 17% | $96,550 | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 6 | 7% | $105,000 | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 6 | 13% | $100,000 | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 5 | 3% | $106,000 | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 5 | 13% | $60,000 | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 5 | 3% | $105,000 | |
| Texas Tech (Rawls) | 5 | 14% | $60,000 | |
| Rutgers | 5 | 11% | $85,000 | |
| Miami | 5 | 13% | $52,000 | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 4 | 10% | $90,000 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 4 | 8% | $56,145 | |
| George Washington | 4 | 7% | $101,500 | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 4 | 13% | Not available | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 8% | $104,500 | |
| North Carolina State (Poole) | 4 | 13% | $77,839 | |
| ESADE | 4 | 4% | $57,182 | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 3 | 9% | $104,000 | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 3 | 9% | $93,000 | |
| UC at Davis | 3 | 9% | $95,000 | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 3 | 12% | $90,000 | |
| UT at Dallas (Jindal) | 3 | 11% | Not available | |
| IMD | 3 | 5% | $127,529 | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 3 | 7% | $70,000 | |
| City, University of London (Cass) | 3 | 9% | $44,702 | |
| Mannheim | 3 | 8% | $96,070 | |
| Copenhagen | 3 | 16% | $89,094 | |
| EAE (Madrid) | 3 | 2% | $41,405 | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 3 | 8% | $95,000 | |
| Tampa (Sykes) | 3 | 6% | $42,500 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 3 | 3% | Not available | |
| Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 3 | 7% | Not available | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 3 | 9% | $103,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 3 | 3% | Not available | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 2 | 4% | Not available | |
| Manchester | 2 | 3% | Not available | |
| Washington (Foster) | 2 | 2% | Not available | |
| Imperial College of London | 2 | 6% | Not available | |
| Alberta | 2 | 3% | Not available | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 2 | 6% | $38,000 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 2 | 1% | Not available | |
| Houston (Bauer) | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| Bentley | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| ESMT Berlin | 1 | 3% | $92,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 1 | 4% | Not available | |
| HEC Montreal | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| National University of Singapore | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| UC at San Diego (Rady) | 1 | 6% | Not available | |
| Oregon (Lundquist) | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| San Diego | 1 | 5% | Not available | |