| 2011 Forbes Rank & School | 2009 Rank | Pre-MBA (2006) Salary | 2010 Salary | Years tobreak even |
| 1. Harvard Business School | 3 | $79,000 | $230,000 | 3.6 |
| 2. Stanford | 1 | $77,000 | $205,000 | 3.5 |
| 3. Chicago (Booth) | 4 | $72,000 | $205,000 | 3.5 |
| 4. Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 5 | $79,000 | $225,000 | 3.7 |
| 5. Columbia Business School | 6 | $76,000 | $198,000 | 3.6 |
| 6. Dartmouth (Tuck) | 2 | $74,000 | $200,000 | 3.6 |
| 7. Northwestern (Kellogg) | 8 | $68,000 | $183.000 | 3.5 |
| 8. Cornell (Johnson) | 7 | $65,000 | $180.000 | 3.5 |
| 9. Virginia (Darden) | 9 | $68,000 | $178,000 | 3.5 |
| 10. MIT (Sloan) | 14 | $77,000 | $200,000 | 3.7 |
| 11. Yale School of Management | 10 | $57,000 | $150,000 | 3.3 |
| 12. Duke (Fuqua) | 13 | $63,000 | $162,000 | 3.6 |
| 13. UC-Berkeley (Haas) | 12 | $68,000 | $171,000 | 3.7 |
| 14. Michigan (Ross) | 18 | $62,000 | $146,000 | 3.6 |
| 15. Brigham Young (Marriott) | 16 | $47,000 | $108,000 | 3.1 |
| 16. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 15 | $55,000 | $136,000 | 3.6 |
| 17. Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 11 | $59,000 | $144,000 | 3.6 |
| 18. NYU (Stern) | 17 | $61,000 | $160,000 | 3.7 |
| 19. Michigan State (Broad) | 21 | $45,000 | $109,000 | 3.1 |
| 20. UCLA (Anderson) | 19 | $63,000 | $159,000 | 3.7 |
| 21. Iowa (Tippie) | 20 | $36,000 | $96,000 | 3.1 |
| 22. Emory (Goizueta) | 22 | $55,000 | $128,000 | 3.5 |
| 23. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 23 | $55,000 | $147,000 | 3.8 |
| 24. Texas A&M (Mays) | 24 | $46,000 | $116,000 | 3.3 |
| 25. SMU (Cox) | 33 | $45,000 | $112,000 | 3.4 |
Source: Forbes 2011 Best Business School ranking
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