‘Business School Is A Waste…If You Want To Blow $100K, Go To Vegas’ by: John A. Byrne on October 10, 2013 | 21,473 Views October 10, 2013 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Many In The Class of 2008 Made Less Than The Class of 2006 School Class of 2008 Median Salary Class of 2006 Median Salary Change Stanford GSB $221,000 $205,000 +$16,000 London Business School $214,000 $197,000 +$17,000 IMD $211,000 $247,000 -$36,000 Harvard Business School $205,000 $230,000 -$25,000 UPenn (Wharton) $205,000 $225,000 -$20,000 Chicago (Booth) $200,000 $205,000 -$5,000 Columbia $192,000 $198,000 -$6,000 Dartmouth (Tuck) $189,000 $200,000 -$19,000 MIT (Sloan) $185,000 $200,000 -$15,000 Northwestern (Kellogg) $176,000 $183,000 -$7,000 UC-Berkeley (Haas) $175,000 $171,000 +$4,000 INSEAD $175,000 $193,000 -$21,000 UCLA (Anderson) $165,000 $159,000 +$6,000 New York (Stern) $165,000 $160,000 +$5,000 SDA Bocconi $165,000 $152,000 +$13,000 Australian GSM $163,000 $181,000 -$18,000 Virginia (Darden) $158,000 $178,000 -$20,000 Cornell (Johnson) $155,000 $180,000 -$25,000 Michigan (Ross) $153,000 $146,000 +$7,000 Duke (Fuqua) $152,000 $162,000 -$10,000 Georgetown (McDonough) $150,000 $138,000 +$12,000 Texas-Austin (McCombs) $150,000 $144,000 +$6,000 Cambridge (Judge) $146,000 $155,000 -$9,000 IESE $146,000 $161,000 -$15,000 Yale SOM $144,000 $150,000 -$6,000 IE Business School $144,000 $141,000 +$3,000 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) $141,000 $135,000 +$6,000 Manchester $141,000 $155,000 -$14,000 Emory (Goizueta) $140,000 $128,000 +$12,000 HEC Paris $140,000 $161,000 -$21,000 Vanderbilt (Owen) $138,000 $140,000 -$2,000 Carnegie (Tepper) $135,000 $147,000 -$12,000 Oxford (Said) $135,000 $156,000 -$21,000 USC (Marshall) $135,000 $144,000 -$9,000 Source: Forbes’ surveys of business school alumni for its 2013 & 2011 MBA rankings Previous PagePage 2 of 2 1 2