The 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs finds that the financial services industry hires the second-highest number of graduates. The technology industry is a close third. Total hired in financial services: 2,853 B-School graduates.
| School | Number of hires | Share of hires | Median salary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 196 | 33% | $130,000 | |
| Harvard | 194 | 31% | $150,000 | |
| Columbia | 192 | 38% | $125,000 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 147 | 30% | $125,000 | |
| NYU (Stern) | 102 | 32% | $125,000 | |
| INSEAD | 79 | 11% | $102,700 | |
| London Business School | 79 | 26% | $105,848 | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 78 | 33% | $125,000 | |
| Stanford | 75 | 32% | $150,000 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 73 | 20% | $125,000 | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 65 | 24% | $125,000 | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 63 | 33% | $125,000 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 57 | 29% | $91,775 | |
| Yale | 54 | 22% | $125,000 | |
| IE | 54 | 18% | $86,735 | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 50 | 18% | $125,000 | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 48 | 20% | $125,000 | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 47 | 12% | $125,000 | |
| CEIBS | 45 | 30% | $54,118 | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 44 | 14% | $125,000 | |
| Hult | 43 | 17% | $73,500 | |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 43 | 19% | $120,000 | |
| IESE Business School | 38 | 18% | $108,418 | |
| UT at Austin (McCombs) | 36 | 17% | $125,000 | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 35 | 11% | $125,000 | |
| Western (Ivey) | 34 | 27% | $67,341 | |
| HEC Paris | 32 | 22% | $122,300 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 28 | 25% | $119,550 | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 25 | 24% | $105,000 | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 24 | 18% | $117,500 | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 23 | 15% | $110,000 | |
| Rice (Jones) | 23 | 25% | $125,000 | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 22 | 12% | $125,000 | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 22 | 24% | $105,000 | |
| HKUST | 21 | 32% | $76,440 | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 21 | 37% | $97,500 | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 20 | 27% | $105,000 | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 20 | 22% | $100,000 | |
| ESADE | 20 | 21% | $82,701 | |
| EAE (Madrid) | 20 | 12% | $35,490 | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 19 | 17% | $125,000 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 19 | 20% | $83,500 | |
| Maryland (Smith) | 16 | 26% | $90,000 | |
| Fordham (Gabelli) | 16 | 50% | $80,000 | |
| McGill (Desautels) | 16 | 30% | $72,186 | |
| Queen's (Smith) | 15 | 29% | $89,000 | |
| SDA Bocconi | 14 | 19% | $97,315 | |
| SUNY University at Buffalo | 13 | 18% | $56,000 | |
| Wisconsin | 13 | 17% | $90,000 | |
| National University of Singapore | 13 | 20% | $66,297 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 13 | 18% | $100,000 | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 12 | 8% | $100,000 | |
| Alberta | 11 | 18% | $65,000 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 11 | 13% | $88,000 | |
| City, University of London (Cass) | 11 | 32% | $84,663 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 11 | 10% | $81,000 | |
| George Washington | 10 | 19% | $73,000 | |
| HEC Montreal | 10 | 33% | $64,905 | |
| Baruch (Zicklin) | 10 | 38% | $85,000 | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 10 | 22% | $70,000 | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 9 | 24% | $100,000 | |
| Missouri (Trulaske) | 9 | 25% | $70,000 | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 9 | 7% | $122,500 | |
| Cranfield | 8 | 24% | $62,488 | |
| Tampa (Sykes) | 8 | 16% | $55,000 | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 8 | 20% | $85,000 | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 8 | 20% | $51,500 | |
| USC (Marshall) | 8 | 5% | $125,000 | |
| William and Mary (Mason) | 8 | 15% | $91,000 | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 7 | 21% | $83,500 | |
| Tulane (Freeman) | 7 | 37% | $125,000 | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 7 | 16% | $100,000 | |
| Mississippi | 7 | 20% | $65,000 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 7 | 18% | $50,000 | |
| Manchester | 7 | 11% | $72,845 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 7 | 25% | $67,000 | |
| Miami | 7 | 17% | $72,000 | |
| North Carolina State (Poole) | 7 | 23% | $90,000 | |
| Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 7 | 16% | $100,000 | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 6 | 13% | $95,000 | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 6 | 11% | $60,000 | |
| South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 6 | 24% | $100,000 | |
| Oregon (Lundquist) | 6 | 27% | $70,000 | |
| Bentley | 6 | 15% | $60,000 | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 5 | 15% | $83,000 | |
| Imperial College of London | 5 | 14% | $75,002 | |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 5 | 9% | $95,000 | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 5 | 15% | $87,500 | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 5 | 11% | Not available | |
| Washington (Foster) | 5 | 5% | $125,000 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 5 | 19% | $64,000 | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 4 | 8% | $80,000 | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 4 | 6% | Not available | |
| IMD | 4 | 6% | $131,888 | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 4 | 8% | $110,000 | |
| UC at San Diego (Rady) | 4 | 22% | $79,119 | |
| Auburn (Harbert) | 4 | 17% | $59,000 | |
| Connecticut | 4 | 20% | $85,000 | |
| Ryerson (Rogers) | 4 | 11% | $73,750 | |
| Houston (Bauer) | 3 | 14% | $64,000 | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 3 | 14% | $82,000 | |
| UT at Dallas (Jindal) | 3 | 11% | Not available | |
| Utah (Eccles) | 3 | 6% | $85,000 | |
| Hofstra (Zarb) | 3 | 38% | Not available | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 3 | 15% | $80,000 | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 3 | 5% | $110,000 | |
| Chapman (Argyros) | 3 | 16% | $59,000 | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 3 | 6% | Not available | |
| Florida (Hough) | 3 | 7% | Not available | |
| ESIC | 3 | 9% | $99,750 | |
| ESMT Berlin | 3 | 8% | $65,000 | |
| UC at Davis | 3 | 9% | $85,000 | |
| American (Kogod) | 2 | 13% | Not available | |
| Mannheim | 2 | 5% | Not available | |
| Arizona (Eller) | 2 | 10% | Not available | |
| Melbourne | 2 | 5% | $89,984 | |
| Copenhagen | 2 | 11% | Not available | |
| San Diego State (Fowler) | 2 | 6% | Not available | |
| Texas Tech (Rawls) | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| San Diego | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Howard | 1 | 5% | $105,000 | |
| Florida International (Chapman) | 1 | 50% | $60,000 | |