The Most Lucrative Seven-Figure MBA Degrees

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What MBAs From The Top Schools Make Over 20 Years

 

School 20-Year Earnings 2013 Starting Pay & Bonus P&Q Rank
 26. Southern Methodist (Cox) $2,243,000 $100,748 39
 27. Texas-Austin (McCombs) $2,235,000 $123,868 19
 28. Georgia (Terry) $2,217,000 $86,096 49
 29. Washington University (Olin) $2,180,000 $110,533 23
 30. Georgia Tech (Scheller) $2,166,000 $108,055 31
 31. Georgetown (McDonough) $2,162,000 $118,620 22
 32. Minnesota (Carlson) $2,137,000 $117,972 36
 33. Purdue (Krannert) $2,101,000 $100,609 41
 33. Wake Forest (Babcock) $2,101,000 $93,957 46
 35. Arizona State (Carey) $2,083,000 $103,903 42
 36. Maryland (Smith) $2,080,000 $98,723 29
 37. Brigham Young (Marriott) $2,068,000 $110,216 43
 38. George Washington University $2,067,000 $87,198 50
 39. Indiana (Kelley) $2,065,000 $113,898 20
 40. Illinois-Urbana-Champaign $2,053,000 $94,751 44
 41. South Carolina (Moore) $2,042,000 $84,771 51
 42. Penn State (Smeal) $2,028,000 $108,961 33
 43. Rochester (Simon) $2,016,000 $92,262 37
 44. Florida (Hough) $1,994,000 $84,281 48
 45. Wisconsin-Madison $1,969,000 $109,293 30
 46. Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) $1,960,000 $79,129 52
 47. Michigan State (Broad) $1,865,000 $102,806 38
 48. Iowa (Tippie) $1,856,000 $95,058 35
 49. Ohio State (Fisher) $1,783,000 $108,510 26
 50. Texas A&M (Mays) $1,781,820 $97,480 34

Source: Payscale Inc. for 20-year estimate, business schools reporting to U.S. News for 2013 starting pay and bonus

Notes: Poets&Quants asked Payscale to make these 20-year estimates for schools ranked in the top 50 by P&Q. Payscale was unable to come up with reliable estimates for two schools–Rice University’s Jones School and Boston College’s Carroll School of Business–so those schools were not included in the analysis. Instead, the schools rated 51st and 52nd, the University of South Carolina’s Moore School and Case Western Reserve’s Weatherhead School, were added to the list because PayScale had sufficient data to create an estimate for the MBAs of those schools.

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