Highest Salary MBA Programs (2026)

MBA programs ranked by average starting salary. Where the paychecks are biggest.

1

Harvard Business School Boston, MA

GMAT 740 Salary $195K Accept 11%

2

Stanford GSB Stanford, CA

GMAT 738 Salary $192K Accept 6.9%

3

Wharton Philadelphia, PA

GMAT 733 Salary $185K Accept 18%

4

Booth Chicago, IL

GMAT 730 Salary $180K Accept 21%

5

Columbia Business School New York, NY

GMAT 729 Salary $180K Accept 15%

6

MIT Sloan Cambridge, MA

GMAT 730 Salary $178K Accept 12%

7

Kellogg Evanston, IL

GMAT 727 Salary $175K Accept 20%

8

Berkeley Haas Berkeley, CA

GMAT 726 Salary $175K Accept 12%

9

Dartmouth Tuck Hanover, NH

GMAT 722 Salary $172K Accept 22%

10

NYU Stern New York, NY

GMAT 723 Salary $170K Accept 23%

11

Michigan Ross Ann Arbor, MI

GMAT 720 Salary $170K Accept 24%

12

Duke Fuqua Durham, NC

GMAT 720 Salary $168K Accept 22%

13

Virginia Darden Charlottesville, VA

GMAT 718 Salary $168K Accept 24%

14

Yale SOM New Haven, CT

GMAT 720 Salary $165K Accept 17%

15

Cornell Johnson Ithaca, NY

GMAT 710 Salary $165K Accept 27%

16

UCLA Anderson Los Angeles, CA

GMAT 714 Salary $160K Accept 25%

17

Carnegie Mellon Tepper Pittsburgh, PA

GMAT 710 Salary $158K Accept 28%

18

USC Marshall Los Angeles, CA

GMAT 710 Salary $155K Accept 27%

19

Georgetown McDonough Washington, DC

GMAT 700 Salary $155K Accept 35%

20

Texas McCombs Austin, TX

GMAT 705 Salary $155K Accept 30%

21

UNC Kenan-Flagler Chapel Hill, NC

GMAT 705 Salary $152K Accept 30%

22

Washington Foster Seattle, WA

GMAT 710 Salary $152K Accept 28%

23

Emory Goizueta Atlanta, GA

GMAT 705 Salary $150K Accept 28%

24

Vanderbilt Owen Nashville, TN

GMAT 700 Salary $148K Accept 32%

25

WashU Olin St. Louis, MO

GMAT 700 Salary $148K Accept 30%