Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.
SDA Bocconi graduates who went into the retail industry right after graduation earned $139,284, highest of any school in the 2019-20 Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA students. At $132,500, graduates of Harvard posted the second-highest compensation. HEC Paris, Harvard, and Yale all sent 16 graduates into the retail industry, most of any schools. The highest percentage of graduates who took jobs at retail companies of any school in the ranking came from Shanghai University MBA Centre, 20.0%.
| school | number of hires | percentage of hires | median salary (U.S. dollars) | median salary (local currency) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SDA Bocconi | 4 | 5.6% | $139,284 | €122,912 |
| | Harvard | 16 | 2.6% | $132,500 | Not applicable |
| | Yale | 16 | 6.3% | $130,000 | Not applicable |
| | HEC Paris | 16 | 8.3% | $126,000 | Not applicable |
| | MIT (Sloan) | 8 | 2.8% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Virginia (Darden) | 14 | 4.7% | $120,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington (Foster) | 5 | 4.5% | $118,000 | Not applicable |
| | USC (Marshall) | 4 | 2.5% | $117,500 | Not applicable |
| | Duke (Fuqua) | 9 | 2.5% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Texas at Austin (McCombs) | 9 | 4.2% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Washington in St. Louis (Olin) | 4 | 4.6% | $115,000 | Not applicable |
| | Penn State (Smeal) | 4 | 9.3% | $113,750 | Not applicable |
| | North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 9 | 3.7% | $112,500 | Not applicable |
| | Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 9 | 5.2% | $112,000 | Not applicable |
| | Michigan (Ross) | 5 | 1.5% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | NYU (Stern) | 7 | 2.1% | $110,000 | Not applicable |
| | Northwestern (Kellogg) | 10 | 2.6% | $108,000 | Not applicable |
| | Columbia | 10 | 2.1% | $105,000 | Not applicable |
| | ESADE | 5 | 3.8% | $103,631 | €91,450 |
| | UCLA (Anderson) | 4 | 1.5% | $100,000 | Not applicable |
| | IE | 13 | 5.3% | $99,972 | €88,221 |
| | Vanderbilt (Owen) | 3 | 2.4% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | William and Mary (Mason) | 4 | 7.3% | $95,000 | Not applicable |
| | INSEAD | 10 | 1.5% | $92,500 | Not applicable |
| | Ohio State (Fisher) | 4 | 5.4% | $90,000 | Not applicable |
| | Hult | 3 | 1.8% | $88,000 | Not applicable |
| | Southern Methodist (Cox) | 4 | 5.4% | $85,000 | Not applicable |
| | IESE Business School | 10 | 3.8% | $84,990 | €75,000 |
| | London Business School | 4 | 1.3% | $83,888 | £65,435 |
| | Pittsburgh (Katz) | 3 | 5.9% | $80,000 | Not applicable |
| | Georgia (Terry) | 3 | 8.1% | $77,000 | Not applicable |
| | ESMT Berlin | 5 | 12.5% | $71,392 | €63,000 |
| | Imperial College London | 3 | 5.8% | $70,510 | £55,000 |
| | Tennessee (Haslam) | 8 | 19.5% | $69,000 | Not applicable |
| | Western (Ivey) | 3 | 2.5% | $67,884 | CA$90,000 |
| | Toronto (Rotman) | 3 | 1.1% | $60,341 | CA$80,000 |
| | Mississippi | 5 | 17.9% | $59,448 | Not applicable |
| | CEIBS | 4 | 2.7% | $58,335 | CN¥400,000 |
| | Politecnico di Milano | 3 | 7.9% | $50,994 | €45,000 |
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| | EAE | 5 | 2.2% | $46,747 | €41,252 |
| | Shanghai University MBA Centre | 3 | 20.0% | $43,752 | CN¥300,000 |
| | Chicago (Booth) | 4 | 0.9% | Not available | Not applicable |
| | Rochester (Simon) | 3 | 3.5% | Not available | Not applicable |
Schools with fewer than 3 hires are excluded from the list.