B-Schools That Churn Out Consultants

Leading B-Schools For Applicants Who Want To Go Into Consulting

School	Percentage of Class of 2011 In Consulting	Conversion To Consulting*	Average Starting Salary	Average Sign-On Bonus
1, Northwestern (Kellogg)	39.0%	70%	$124,262	$24,406
1, INSEAD	39.0%	50%	$115,424	$21,539**
3. London Business School	36.0%	33%	$121,050	$26,044
4. MIT (Sloan)	33.7%	47%	$125,709	$22,304
5. Dartmouth (Tuck)	33.0%	50%	$126,000	$27,000
6. Emory (Goizueta)	31.0%	68%	$115,200	$23,121
6. Oxford (Said)	31.0%	63%	$109,198	NA
8. Duke (Fuqua)	30.0%	NA	$124,150	$23,750
9. Pennsylvania (Wharton)	29.1%	53%	$125,000**	$20.000**
10. Cornell (Johnson)	28.0%	NA	$115,100	$21,800
11. Chicago (Booth)	27.8%	62%	$125,000**	$20,000**
12. Michigan (Ross)	27.6%	NA	$124,355	$20,000**
13. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	27.1%	4%	$126,853	$25,872
14. Stanford GSB	27.0%	59%	$123,289	$24,216
15. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	24.6%	NA	$112,215	$20,516
16. Harvard Business School	24.0%	20%	$125,000**	$20.000**
17. Yale School of Management	23.0%	NA	$121,189	NA
18. Columbia Business School	22.3%	-20%	$125,000**	$23,608**
19. Virginia (Darden)	20.0%	25%	$123,652	$25,745
19. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	20.0%	NA	$118,900	$23,085
21. New York (Stern)	19.0%	58%	$122,996	$26,010
22. Indiana (Kelley)	16.0%	NA	$102,660	NA
23. UCLA (Anderson)	15.3%	18%	NA	NA
24. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	14.0%	NA	$117,266	$26,724

Source: School employment reports for the Class of 2011

Notes: All statistics for consulting industry, not consulting function which tends to be slightly higher. Conversion to consulting shows the percentage increase of students becoming consultants over the students who enter with consulting industry background ** Only median numbers available

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