Data Dive: 2024 MBA Salaries, Bonuses & Job Placement Rates At 30 Top-Ranked B-Schools by: Marc Ethier on March 21, 2025 | 16,727 Views March 21, 2025 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit MBA JOB OFFERS 3 MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION AT 30 TOP U.S. B-SCHOOLS 2020-2024 2025 P&Q Rank School 2024 Job Offers After 3 Months 2023 Job Offers After 3 Months 2-Year Trend 2022 Job Offers After 3 Months 2021 Job Offers After 3 Months 2020 Job Offers After 3 Months 5-Year Trend 1 Northwestern (Kellogg) 90.0% 94.5% -4.5 99.0% 97.1% 95.0% -5.0 2 Stanford GSB 88.0% 89.0% -1.0 93.0% 96.0% 91.0% -3.0 3 Chicago (Booth) 86.8% 95.6% -8.8 96.8% 97.7% 92.8% -6.0 4 Harvard Business School 85.0% 86.0% -1.0 95.0% 96.0% 90.0% -5.0 5 Virginia (Darden) 93.0% 95.7% -2.7 97.0% 97.0% 93.0% Even 6 Dartmouth (Tuck) 91.0% 96.0% -5.0 98.0% 98.0% 94.0% -3.0 7 Columbia 89.0% 84.0% +5.0 95.0% 94.0% 90.0% -1.0 8 Yale SOM 84.8% 91.5% -6.7 96.1% 95.7% 90.2% -5.4 9 Cornell (Johnson) 81.0% 94.0% -13.0 97.0% 97.0% 93.0% -12.0 10 Duke (Fuqua) 85.0% 93.0% -8.0 98.0% 98.0% 93.0% -8.0 11 NYU (Stern) 86.1% 94.3% -8.2 94.1% 95.8% 92.0% -5.9 12 Penn (Wharton) 93.1% 97.2% -4.1 98.7% 99.0% 93.5% -0.4 13 MIT (Sloan) 85.1% 90.2% -5.1 96.6% 95.9% 95.5% -10.4 14 UCLA (Anderson) 78.0% 86.8% -8.8 93.9% 93.1% 83.3% -5.3 15 CMU (Tepper) 81.4% 93.6% -12.2 97.0% 96.0% 89.0% -7.6 16 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 86.0% 90.0% -4.0 95.0% 93.8% 88.0% -2.0 17 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 86.0% 89.9% -3.9 93.8% 89.9% 89.1% -3.1 18 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 83.0% 89.0% -6.0 96.0% 93.0% 86.0% -3.0 19 Washington (Foster) 89.0% 94.0% -5.0 NA NA NA NA 19 Georgia Tech (Scheller) 88.4% 97.0% -8.6 100.0% 97.0% 90.0% -1.6 21 Washington (Olin) 81.0% 86.0% -5.0 95.0% 94.0% 74.0% +7.0 22 USC (Marshall) NA NA NA 97.0% 95.0% NA NA 23 Emory (Goizueta) 81.8% 96.0% -14.2 98.0% 99.0% 92.0% -10.2 24 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 74.0% 91.0% -17.0 96.0% 96.0% 79.0% -5.0 25 Georgetown (McDonough) 88.8% 93.3% -4.5 96.0% 96.0% 93.0% -4.2 26 Rice (Jones) 72.2% 90.0% -17.8 96.0% 97.0% 90.0% -17.8 28 Rochester (Simon) NA NA NA 95.0% 95.1% 90.6% NA 29 Michigan (Ross) 84.6% 95.9% -11.3 99.0% 97.5% 90.3% -5.7 30 Vanderbilt (Owen) 91.0% 97.0% -6.0 97.0% 97.0% 96.0% -5.0 34 Indiana (Kelley) 93.0% 94.2% -1.2 96.2% 95.7% 94.8% -1.8 Source: Business school employment reports MBA JOB ACCEPTS 3 MONTHS AFTER GRADUATION AT 30 TOP U.S. B-SCHOOLS 2020-2024 2025 P&Q Rank School 2023 Job Acceptance After 3 Months 2023 Job Acceptance After 3 Months 2-Year Trend 2022 Job Acceptance After 3 Months 2021 Job Acceptance After 3 Months 2020 Job Acceptance After 3 Months 5-Year Trend 1 Northwestern (Kellogg) 87.0% 91.9% -4.9 97.0% 96.1% 93.0% -6.0 2 Stanford GSB 80.0% 82.0% -2.0 85.0% 91.0% 85.0% -5.0 3 Chicago (Booth) 84.1% 94.3% -10.2 95.6% 96.4% 91.4% -7.3 4 Harvard Business School 77.0% 80.0% -3.0 90.0% 92.0% 83.0% -6.0 5 Virginia (Darden) 90.0% 94.5% -4.5 93.0% 95.0% 91.0% -1.0 6 Dartmouth (Tuck) 89.0% 93.0% -4.0 96.0% 97.0% 92.0% -3.0 7 Columbia 86.4% 81.0% +5.4 92.0% 92.0% 87.0% -0.6 8 Yale SOM 81.2% 88.4% -7.2 93.3% 94.1% 85.9% -4.7 9 Cornell (Johnson) 79.0% 93.0% -14.0 96.0% 95.0% 90.0% -11.0 10 Duke (Fuqua) 82.0% 92.0% -10.0 97.0% 96.0% 91.0% -9.0 11 NYU (Stern) 84.6% 94.0% -9.4 94.1% 95.2% 89.0% -4.4 12 Penn (Wharton) 88.2% 92.3% -4.1 96.2% 96.8% 91.6% -3.4 13 MIT (Sloan) 77.2% 86.9% -9.7 94.4% 94.8% 91.1% -13.9 14 UCLA (Anderson) 77.0% 85.6% -8.6 91.9% 92.7% 78.3% -1.3 15 CMU (Tepper) 79.0% 91.5% -12.5 96.2% 95.0% 87.0% -8.0 16 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 85.0% 89.0% -4.0 93.0% 92.9% 85.6% -0.6 17 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 84.0% 88.7% -3.7 92.8% 88.3% 86.9% -2.9 18 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 82.0% 87.5% -5.5 95.0% 91.0% 85.0% -3.0 19 Washington (Foster) 89.0% 88.8% +0.2 99.0% 97.2% 94.2% -5.2 19 Georgia Tech (Scheller) 88.4% 96.0% -7.6 100.0% 97.0% 90.4% -2.0 21 Washington (Olin) 78.0% 86.0% -8.0 95.0% 94.0% 73.0% +5.0 22 USC (Marshall) 80.0% 86.1% -6.1 95.6% 94.2% 91.0% -11.0 23 Emory (Goizueta) 79.6% 96.0% -16.4 98.0% 99.0% 90.0% -10.0 24 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 72.0% 90.0% -18.0 96.0% 94.0% 78.0% -6.0 25 Georgetown (McDonough) 84.3% 92.5% -8.2 95.0% 95.0% 90.0% -5.7 26 Rice (Jones) 72.3% 87.0% -14.7 94.0% 92.0% 89.0% -16.7 28 Rochester (Simon) 87.0% 91.0% -4.0 95.0% 93.2% 90.6% -3.6 29 Michigan (Ross) 83.7% 93.7% -10.0 98.4% 96.1% 88.4% -4.7 30 Vanderbilt (Owen) 90.0% 96.0% -6.0 95.0% 96.0% 90.0% Even 34 Indiana (Kelley) 89.0% 92.1% -3.1 96.2% 87.6% 85.7% +3.3 Source: Business school employment reports DON’T MISS 2024 MBA CLASS PROFILES & EMPLOYMENT REPORTS and LAST YEAR’S P&Q REPORT ON MBA SALARIES & BONUSES AT THE TOP U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOLS Previous PagePage 3 of 3 1 2 3