Every year, the FT ranks the world’s best MBA programmes using multiple criteria. Although not used in the ranking, "Salary today" seems to be the most important driver for an honest pragmatic CEO-wannabe. This is the average alumni salary three years after graduation, US$ PPP equivalent. The 2017 ranking surveyed the MBA class that graduated in 2013.
25th Percentile: 113,196
Median: 123,599
75th Percentile: 147,361
Max: 193,534
| Rank in 2017 | School name | Country | Salary today (US$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Insead | France / Singapore | 167,305 |
| 2 | Stanford Graduate School of Business | US | 193,534 |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | US | 180,512 |
| 4 | Harvard Business School | US | 177,541 |
| 5 | University of Cambridge: Judge | UK | 164,714 |
| 6 | London Business School | UK | 155,183 |
| 7 | Columbia Business School | US | 172,678 |
| 8 | IE Business School | Spain | 168,920 |
| 9 | University of Chicago: Booth | US | 171,094 |
| 10 | Iese Business School | Spain | 146,108 |
| 11 | Ceibs | China | 156,023 |
| 12 | Northwestern University: Kellogg | US | 165,038 |
| 13 | MIT: Sloan | US | 165,365 |
| 13 | University of California at Berkeley: Haas | US | 167,458 |
| 15 | HKUST Business School | China | 149,496 |
| 15 | Yale School of Management | US | 159,149 |
| 17 | Esade Business School | Spain | 144,768 |
| 18 | Dartmouth College: Tuck | US | 166,722 |
| 19 | New York University: Stern | US | 151,067 |
| 20 | HEC Paris | France | 132,188 |
| 21 | IMD | Switzerland | 156,648 |
| 22 | SDA Bocconi | Italy | 129,064 |
| 23 | University of Michigan: Ross | US | 151,941 |
| 24 | Duke University: Fuqua | US | 149,738 |
| 24 | Nanyang Business School | Singapore | 126,218 |
| 26 | National University of Singapore Business School | Singapore | 133,152 |
| 27 | Cornell University: Johnson | US | 151,103 |
| 27 | Indian School of Business | India | 145,100 |
| 29 | Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad | India | 182,736 |
| 30 | Alliance Manchester Business School | UK | 128,436 |
| 31 | Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University | Netherlands | 121,776 |
| 32 | UCLA: Anderson | US | 147,778 |
| 33 | University of Oxford: Saïd | UK | 140,552 |
| 34 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai | China | 123,330 |
| 35 | University of Virginia: Darden | US | 148,336 |
| 36 | CUHK Business School | China | 121,193 |
| 37 | City University: Cass | UK | 127,110 |
| 38 | Carnegie Mellon: Tepper | US | 137,068 |
| 39 | University of Hong Kong | China | 123,546 |
| 40 | Georgetown University: McDonough | US | 135,950 |
| 41 | University of Washington: Foster | US | 130,042 |
| 42 | Lancaster University Management School | UK | 114,220 |
| 43 | University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler | US | 130,910 |
| 44 | Warwick Business School | UK | 112,702 |
| 45 | Imperial College Business School | UK | 112,865 |
| 46 | University of Texas at Austin: McCombs | US | 138,570 |
| 47 | Indiana University: Kelley | US | 124,822 |
| 48 | University of Southern California: Marshall | US | 135,916 |
| 49 | Macquarie Graduate School of Management | Australia | 131,488 |
| 49 | Indian Institute of Management Bangalore | India | 152,000 |
| 51 | Emory University: Goizueta | US | 134,370 |
| 52 | University of Maryland: Smith | US | 114,142 |
| 53 | Cranfield School of Management | UK | 125,106 |
| 54 | Mannheim Business School | Germany | 113,829 |
| 54 | Sungkyunkwan University GSB | South Korea | 114,479 |
| 54 | AGSM at UNSW Business School | Australia | 121,794 |
| 57 | Arizona State University: Carey | US | 113,707 |
| 58 | Michigan State University: Broad | US | 106,517 |
| 59 | University of St Gallen | Switzerland | 119,861 |
| 60 | University of Notre Dame: Mendoza | US | 128,222 |
| 61 | Georgia Institute of Technology: Scheller | US | 123,651 |
| 62 | University of California at Irvine: Merage | US | 114,748 |
| 63 | Ohio State University: Fisher | US | 114,120 |
| 64 | Rice University: Jones | US | 128,920 |
| 65 | Brigham Young University: Marriott | US | 127,420 |
| 65 | University of Toronto: Rotman | Canada | 98,076 |
| 65 | Wisconsin School of Business | US | 117,781 |
| 68 | Washington University: Olin | US | 114,781 |
| 69 | Purdue University: Krannert | US | 114,732 |
| 70 | Rutgers Business School | US | 108,479 |
| 70 | The Lisbon MBA | Portugal | 118,442 |
| 70 | ESMT Berlin | Germany | 108,360 |
| 70 | University College Dublin: Smurfit | Ireland | 113,094 |
| 74 | Edhec Business School | France | 113,502 |
| 75 | Durham University Business School | UK | 104,321 |
| 76 | Melbourne Business School | Australia | 100,598 |
| 77 | University of South Carolina: Moore | US | 106,404 |
| 77 | University of Rochester: Simon | US | 115,725 |
| 79 | Vanderbilt University: Owen | US | 121,893 |
| 80 | University of Strathclyde Business School | UK | 98,105 |
| 80 | Boston College: Carroll | US | 116,433 |
| 82 | Boston University: Questrom | US | 119,706 |
| 83 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | US | 105,430 |
| 84 | University of Iowa: Tippie | US | 103,916 |
| 85 | University of Pittsburgh: Katz | US | 104,274 |
| 86 | George Washington University | US | 114,340 |
| 87 | Babson College: Olin | US | 121,130 |
| 88 | University of Minnesota: Carlson | US | 117,567 |
| 89 | Incae Business School | Costa Rica | 89,071 |
| 89 | Pennsylvania State University: Smeal | US | 109,799 |
| 91 | University of Edinburgh Business School | UK | 102,804 |
| 92 | Grenoble Ecole de Management | France | 101,596 |
| 93 | University of Texas at Dallas: Jindal | US | 96,900 |
| 94 | Western University: Ivey | Canada | 98,402 |
| 95 | Indian Institute of Management Calcutta | India | 131,519 |
| 95 | Temple University: Fox | US | 98,464 |
| 97 | Ipade Business School | Mexico | 100,924 |
| 97 | Birmingham Business School | UK | 99,765 |
| 99 | Vlerick Business School | Belgium | 97,960 |
| 100 | Queen's University: Smith | Canada | 93,728 |
