The 2018 Bloomberg Businessweek Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programs finds that the retail industry hires the ninth-highest number of graduates. The difference between the retail industry and no. 10, media and entertainment, is sizable. Total hired in retail: 273 B-School graduates.
| School | Number of hires | Share of hires | Median salary | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard | 18 | 3% | $120,000 | |
| Yale | 15 | 6% | $120,000 | |
| Virginia (Darden) | 14 | 5% | $110,000 | |
| SDA Bocconi | 12 | 17% | $107,111 | |
| UT at Austin (McCombs) | 11 | 5% | $105,000 | |
| Manchester | 11 | 18% | $75,471 | |
| NYU (Stern) | 10 | 3% | $92,500 | |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 10 | 19% | $123,000 | |
| Tennessee (Haslam) | 9 | 18% | $92,750 | |
| Chicago (Booth) | 9 | 2% | $105,000 | |
| INSEAD | 8 | 1% | $83,300 | |
| IESE Business School | 8 | 4% | $83,370 | |
| MIT (Sloan) | 8 | 2% | $120,000 | |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 7 | 2% | $115,000 | |
| Stanford | 5 | 2% | $118,000 | |
| Wisconsin | 5 | 6% | $90,000 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 5 | 1% | $105,000 | |
| Mannheim | 5 | 13% | $115,161 | |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 5 | 4% | $110,000 | |
| Western (Ivey) | 4 | 3% | $91,295 | |
| Babson (Olin) | 4 | 4% | Not available | |
| CEIBS | 4 | 3% | $59,379 | |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 4 | 2% | $107,500 | |
| USC (Marshall) | 4 | 3% | $110,000 | |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 4 | 2% | $105,000 | |
| Columbia | 3 | 1% | $95,000 | |
| EAE (Madrid) | 3 | 2% | $41,405 | |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 3 | 2% | Not available | |
| London Business School | 3 | 1% | $92,043 | |
| Kentucky (Gatton) | 3 | 9% | $60,000 | |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 3 | 1% | $100,000 | |
| Mississippi | 3 | 9% | $55,000 | |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 3 | 4% | $105,000 | |
| Baylor (Hankamer) | 3 | 11% | $70,000 | |
| UT at Dallas (Jindal) | 3 | 11% | $100,000 | |
| Politecnico di Milano | 3 | 9% | $39,000 | |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 3 | 4% | $70,000 | |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 3 | 6% | Not available | |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 2 | 1% | Not available | |
| Washington (Foster) | 2 | 2% | Not available | |
| Southern Methodist (Cox) | 2 | 2% | Not available | |
| San Diego | 2 | 10% | Not available | |
| Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 2 | 4% | Not available | |
| Hofstra (Zarb) | 2 | 25% | Not available | |
| Georgia (Terry) | 2 | 5% | Not available | |
| Connecticut | 2 | 10% | Not available | |
| Chapman (Argyros) | 2 | 11% | Not available | |
| UC at Berkeley (Haas) | 1 | 1% | Not available | |
| ESADE | 1 | 1% | Not available | |
| ESIC | 1 | 3% | $96,000 | |
| HEC Montreal | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| UC at San Diego (Rady) | 1 | 6% | Not available | |
| Oklahoma (Price) | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| IMD | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| Imperial College of London | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| Syracuse (Whitman) | 1 | 5% | Not available | |
| Auburn (Harbert) | 1 | 4% | $55,000 | |
| Alberta | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| National University of Singapore | 1 | 2% | Not available | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 1 | 1% | Not available | |
| Cincinnati (Lindner) | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| San Diego State (Fowler) | 1 | 3% | Not available | |
| HKUST | 1 | 2% | Not available | |