Tech Firms Get Their MBA Talent From These Schools by: Marc Ethier on April 03, 2017 | | 59,441 Views April 3, 2017 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University sent more than a third of its 2016 MBAs into tech — including 45% of its graduating women. Courtesy photo We know where Amazon, Google, Apple, and Microsoft, along with Adobe Systems, Cisco, eBay, Facebook, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn, and a host of early-stage companies are finding their MBAs. But what are they paying? Where should you go if you want to make top dollar in the tech sector? A raft of schools (five, to be exact) pay a median base salary of $120,000; a few (three) pay a bit more at $125,000; and one leads the pack with a median base salary of $130,000. The leader: Stanford. But there’s a twist. Counting median sign-on bonuses, Stanford, at $15,000, doesn’t come out on top in terms of total compensation. That honor goes to two schools: Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, both of which boast a median base pay of $125,000 and a median bonus of $30,000. Columbia is a close third with a salary mark of $120,000 and a bonus of $33,840. The other school that can boast of a $125,000 median base salary for tech workers: Haas, which only reports a mean (not median) bonus of $25,555. ANOTHER TECH OPTION: EUROPEAN SCHOOLS The five European schools all have double-digit employment in the tech sector for their 2016 MBAs. Leading the way is London Business School’s 21%, up a tick from 20% last year, followed by INSEAD (19%, down 2 points), HEC Paris (17%, down 2 points), IESE (16%), and IE (10%). An MBA from INSEAD yields the highest base salary, US$99,500, with a median sign-on of US$21,100. Next is LBS, which reported a mean base salary of $93,408; and IESE, at median US$74,500 (and a median bonus of US$22,202). LBS, meanwhile, may be interested in going the extra mile to attract new students. Anticipating a possible “student brain drain” in the wake of Brexit, the UK’s referendum to leave the European Union, experts expect full-time MBA tuition at England’s top B-school to fall somewhat from the current $93,000. They also look at the school’s opening of the new Sammy Ofer Centre, which increases LBS’ classroom space by 70%, and sense a move in the offing to appeal to more U.S. students in the growing fields of tech and entrepreneurship/innovation. DON’T MISS TECH HIRES SURGE AT KELLOGG THIS YEAR and AT TEPPER, WOMEN FIND TECH MORE APPEALING Previous PagePage 2 of 2 1 2 Questions about this article? Email us or leave a comment below. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.