Using sorted FT.com data from their 2011 annual Business School Rankings the below 20 business schools have the highest average alumni salaries. No surprise Stanford in the middle of Silicon Valley has seen significantly high alumni salaries, IIM’s second place seems curious, but perhaps as a result of IIM grads being cherry picked to lead India’s expansion.
Alumni
Income
Ranking |
Current
FT MBA rank |
School name |
Country |
Weighted
salary (US$) |
| 1 |
4 |
Stanford University GSB |
U.S.A. |
183260 |
| 2 |
11 |
Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) |
India |
174440 |
| 3 |
1 |
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton |
U.S.A. |
171551 |
| 4 |
3 |
Harvard Business School |
U.S.A. |
170238 |
| 5 |
7 |
Columbia Business School |
U.S.A. |
163407 |
| 6 |
9 |
MIT Sloan School of Management |
U.S.A. |
158387 |
| 7 |
18 |
Dartmouth College: Tuck |
U.S.A. |
155020 |
| 8 |
12 |
University of Chicago: Booth |
U.S.A |
151373 |
| 9 |
8 |
IE Business School |
Spain |
149584 |
| 10 |
4 |
Insead |
France / Singapore |
147883 |
| 11 |
15 |
Yale School of Management |
U.S.A. |
146959 |
| 12 |
14 |
IMD |
Switzerland |
145846 |
| 13 |
1 |
London Business School |
U.K. |
145776 |
| 14 |
25 |
University of California at Berkeley: Haas |
U.S.A. |
144790 |
| 15 |
21 |
Northwestern University: Kellogg |
U.S.A. |
143365 |
| 16 |
60 |
University of Cape Town GSB |
South Africa |
140896 |
| 17 |
30 |
Cornell University: Johnson |
U.S.A. |
140273 |
| 18 |
15 |
New York University: Stern |
U.S.A. |
138865 |
| 19 |
31 |
UCLA: Anderson |
U.S.A. |
137726 |
| 20 |
26 |
University of Cambridge: Judge |
U.K. |
137199 |
Top 10 MBA – Top 10 Business Schools
According to the Financial Times list of top full time business schools the US has for the first time conceeded more than half of the positions in the top 50 business schools list to non US establishments. The US still dominates with 24 of the top 50 places, followed by the UK with 12 schools in the top 50. China now has 3 business prestigious business schools and Spain maintains 3. Cambridge and LBS are within the Top 10 MBA programmes.
Top Business Schools: Source FT.
| Ranking |
Top MBA Business Schools in World |
Country |
| 1 |
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton |
US |
| 2 |
London Business School |
UK |
| 3 |
Columbia Business School |
US |
| 4 |
Stanford University GSB |
US |
| 5 |
Harvard Business School |
US |
| 6 |
Insead |
France/Singapore |
| 7 |
MIT: Sloan US |
US |
| 8 |
IE Business School Spain |
Spain |
| 9 |
University of Chicago GSB |
US |
| 10 |
University of Cambridge: Judge |
UK |
| 11 = |
Ceibs China |
China |
| 11 = |
Iese Business School Spain |
Spain |
| 13 |
New York University: Stern |
US |
| 14 |
IMD Switzerland |
Switzerland |
| 15 |
Dartmouth College: Tuck |
US |
| 16 |
Yale School of Management |
US |
| 17 |
Hong Kong UST Business School |
China |
| 18 |
HEC Paris France |
France |
| 19 |
University of Oxford: Saïd |
UK |
| 20 |
Indian School of Business |
India |
| 21 |
Esade Business School |
Spain |
| 22 = |
Lancaster University Management School |
UK |
| 22 = |
Manchester Business School |
UK |
| 24 |
Northwestern University: Kellogg |
US |
| 25 |
UCLA: Anderson |
US |
| 26 |
Emory University: Goizueta |
US |
| 27 |
University of Michigan: Ross |
US |
| 28 |
Duke University: Fuqua |
US |
| 29 |
Warwick Business School |
UK |
| 30 = |
Cranfield School of Management |
UK |
| 30 = |
University of Strathclyde Business School |
UK |
| 32 |
UC Berkeley: Haas |
US |
| 33 |
University of Virginia: Darden |
US |
| 34 |
RSM Erasmus University |
Netherlands |
| 35 |
Imperial College London: Tanaka |
UK |
| 36 |
Cornell University: Johnson |
US |
| 37 |
University of Maryland: Smith |
US |
| 38 |
Georgetown University: McDonough |
US |
| 39 |
Australian Graduate School of Management |
Australia |
| 40 |
University of Toronto: Rotman |
Canada |
| 41 |
City University: Cass |
UK |
| 41 |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ACEM |
China |
| 41 |
University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler |
US |
| 44= |
Edinburgh University Management School |
UK |
| 44= |
University of Washington Business School |
US |
| 46 |
Nanyang Business School |
Singapore |
| 47 |
University of Rochester: Simon |
US |
| 48 = |
Carnegie Mellon: Tepper |
US |
| 48 = |
Leeds University Business School |
UK |
| 48 = |
Michigan State University: Broad |
US |
