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Rank Business School Pre MBA
Salaries*
Median Total
Pay Package
Percent
Increase
1 U. of Pennsylvania (Wharton) $60,000 $156,000 160%
2 Northwestern (Kellogg) $56,000 $142,000 154%
3 Stanford $65,000 $165,500 155%
4 Harvard $65,000 $160,000 146%
5 Columbia $50,000 $142,500 185%
6 Duke (Fuqua) $49,000 $128,500 162%
7 MIT (Sloan) $55,000 $149,000 171%
8 Chicago $55,000 $140,000 155%
9 Cornell (Johnson) $50,000 $135,000 170%
10 Dartmouth (Tuck) $50,000 $149,500 199%
11 Michigan $50,000 $131,000 162%
12 NYU (Stern) $45,000 $140,000 211%
13 UC -- Berkeley (Haas) $50,000 $135,000 170%
14 Virginia (Darden) $50,000 $135,000 170%
15 Yale $45,000 $130,000 189%
16 UCLA (Anderson) $55,000 $136,500 148%
17 Carnegie Mellon $45,000 $125,000 178%
18 UNC -- Chapel Hill $48,000 $125,000 160%
19 Texas -- Austin (McCombs) $45,000 $107,000 138%
20 Indiana (Kelley) $42,000 $114,000 171%
21 USC (Marshall) $45,000 $112,000 149%
22 Purdue (Krannert) $35,000 $101,500 190%
23 Rochester (Simon) $40,000 $110,000 175%
24 Georgetown (McDonough) $45,000 $116,000 158%
25 Washington U. (Olin) $42,000 $109,000 160%

The average salary increases shown above range from 138% at UT Austin to 211% at NYU (Stern). Not a bad return at all!

Before you take this table too seriously, we want to clearly state that these numbers are simply averages. If you decide upon graduation that you would like to work for a small start up with a nice (longer-term) options package (we concede those days are probably gone until the business cycle comes full circle again) or if you decide to work for a large Fortune 500 with good job benefits and security, then you are NOT going to make the these 6 figure salaries your first year out of your MBA program.

* Pre MBA salaries are estimates as certain MBA programs do not collect this information from their incoming students. Those schools that do report these salaries use self-reported information anyway and, hence, may not be slightly inflated.

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