The 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs finds that the manufacturing industry hires the sixth-highest number of graduates. The difference in hiring between the fifth-highest industry, health care, and manufacturing, is sizeable. Total hired in manufacturing: 695 B-School graduates.
| School | Number of hires | Share of hires | Median salary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| INSEAD | 46 | 6% | $108,100 | |
| IE | 28 | 9% | $92,072 | |
| Harvard | 23 | 4% | $127,500 | |
| CEIBS | 23 | 15% | $71,030 | |
| Michigan (Ross) | 21 | 7% | $113,000 | |
| Brigham Young (Marriott) | 17 | 13% | $94,000 | |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 17 | 29% | $100,000 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 16 | 3% | $109,000 | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 16 | 6% | $113,500 | |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 16 | 3% | $130,000 | |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 16 | 11% | $105,000 | |
| Hult | 14 | 6% | $68,648 | |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 13 | 6% | $111,500 | |
| IMD | 13 | 21% | $112,949 | |
| Rochester (Simon) | 12 | 16% | $99,000 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 12 | 14% | $95,000 | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 12 | 24% | $85,000 | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 12 | 5% | $110,000 | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 12 | 3% | $119,000 | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 12 | 5% | $120,000 | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 11 | 20% | $95,000 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 11 | 15% | $100,006 | |
| Manchester | 10 | 16% | $56,278 | |
| SUNY University at Buffalo | 10 | 14% | $66,450 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 10 | 11% | $75,000 | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 10 | 29% | $55,000 | |
| ESADE | 10 | 11% | $70,887 | |
| Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 10 | 23% | $63,500 | |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 9 | 20% | $85,500 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 8 | 2% | $107,500 | |
| ESMT Berlin | 8 | 21% | $70,000 | |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 8 | 15% | $91,750 | |
| London Business School | 7 | 2% | $102,764 | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 7 | 5% | $103,300 | |
| SDA Bocconi | 7 | 10% | $110,680 | |
| USC (Marshall) | 7 | 4% | $115,000 | |
| South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 7 | 28% | $80,000 | |
| Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim) | 7 | 17% | $86,000 | |
| Columbia | 6 | 1% | $134,000 | |
| Mannheim | 6 | 16% | $97,918 | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 6 | 9% | $108,000 | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 6 | 17% | $51,000 | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 6 | 16% | $62,725 | |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 5 | 4% | $114,000 | |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 5 | 15% | $100,000 | |
| National University of Singapore | 5 | 8% | $61,449 | |
| IESE Business School | 5 | 2% | $104,439 | |
| UT at Austin (McCombs) | 5 | 2% | $110,000 | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 5 | 5% | $90,888 | |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 5 | 3% | $110,000 | |
| Wisconsin | 5 | 6% | $95,000 | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 5 | 2% | $125,000 | |
| EAE (Madrid) | 4 | 2% | $32,532 | |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 4 | 4% | $112,500 | |
| San Diego State (Fowler) | 4 | 13% | $46,000 | |
| Rice (Jones) | 4 | 4% | $95,000 | |
| Yale | 4 | 2% | $117,500 | |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 4 | 4% | $102,500 | |
| HEC Montreal | 4 | 13% | $66,107 | |
| Denver (Daniels) | 4 | 9% | $82,000 | |
| ESIC | 4 | 11% | $96,743 | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 4 | 8% | $88,750 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 3 | 2% | Not available | |
| Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 3 | 3% | Not available | |
| Miami | 3 | 7% | $78,000 | |
| North Carolina State (Poole) | 3 | 10% | $82,160 | |
| Colorado at Boulder (Leeds) | 3 | 6% | $90,000 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 3 | 3% | Not available | |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 3 | 5% | Not available | |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 3 | 2% | $85,000 | |
| Pepperdine (Graziadio) | 3 | 9% | $65,000 | |
| Mississippi | 3 | 9% | $59,000 | |
| Texas Christian (Neeley) | 3 | 9% | Not available | |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 2 | 5% | Not available | |
| NYU (Stern) | 2 | 1% | Not available | |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 2 | 4% | Not available | |
| Bentley | 2 | 5% | Not available | |
| Texas Tech (Rawls) | 2 | 5% | Not available | |
| Howard | 2 | 9% | $100,000 | |
| Arizona (Eller) | 2 | 10% | Not available | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 2 | 10% | Not available | |
| Willamette (Atkinson) | 2 | 5% | Not available | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 2 | 1% | Not available | |
| Western (Ivey) | 2 | 2% | Not available | |
| Cranfield | 1 | 3% | $87,730 | |
| Concordia (Molson) | 1 | 4% | Not available | |
| HKUST | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| Alberta | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| UT at Dallas (Jindal) | 1 | 4% | Not available | |
| UC at San Diego (Rady) | 1 | 6% | Not available | |
| UC at Irvine (Merage) | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| Imperial College of London | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| Copenhagen | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Stanford | 1 | 0% | Not available | |
| Oregon (Lundquist) | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| Florida (Hough) | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| Connecticut | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 1 | 4% | Not available | |
| Auburn (Harbert) | 1 | 4% | $65,000 | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 1 | 1% | Not available | |