CAREER OUTCOMES
Career Outcomes also accounts for one third of the overall ranking score. The category includes three metrics that are collected from schools via our institutional survey.
- Percent of Class of 2022 and 2023 job-seeking students who secured full-time employment within 90 days of graduation (50%).
- Average adjusted first year-compensation (as calculated by average salary, average signing bonus, and percent of students getting a signing bonus) for Class of 2022 and 2023 (30%).
- Percent of Class of 2022 and 2023 students who had internships before their senior year (20%).
We use an average of two years’ worth of employment data in our methodology, and those averages are presented below.
Career Rank |
School |
Internship Average |
Employment Rate Average |
Adjusted First-Year Income Average |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 99.50% | 98.47% | $116,600 |
| 2 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 97.00% | 97.43% | $106,019 |
| 3 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 97.50% | 94.58% | $103,170 |
| 4 | Cornell University (Dyson SC John) | 95.10% | 96.40% | $99,722 |
| 5 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 97.95% | 99.33% | $99,169 |
| 6 | New York University (Stern) | 93.40% | 94.44% | $99,122 |
| 7 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | 93.50% | 96.67% | $97,879 |
| 8 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 96.10% | 96.61% | $96,149 |
| 9 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 99.50% | 96.02% | $95,092 |
| 10 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 95.50% | 97.96% | $91,406 |
| 11 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 92.50% | 97.66% | $89,890 |
| 12 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 95.53% | 94.94% | $88,398 |
| 13 | Lehigh University | 86.50% | 93.62% | $88,394 |
| 14 | William & Mary (Mason) | 86.00% | 83.43% | $87,453 |
| 15 | Wake Forest University | 97.50% | 93.11% | $86,772 |
| 16 | Binghamton University | 94.60% | 82.28% | $86,038 |
| 17 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 90.00% | 91.38% | $84,727 |
| 18 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 93.40% | 92.64% | $84,693 |
| 19 | Bucknell University | 91.50% | 95.19% | $83,634 |
| 20 | Villanova University School of Business | 97.73% | 98.23% | $83,337 |
| 21 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 98.35% | 92.60% | $83,098 |
| 22 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 71.85% | 87.45% | $82,539 |
| 23 | University of Richmond (Robins) | 95.50% | 99.40% | $81,230 |
| 24 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | 97.45% | 96.17% | $81,155 |
| 25 | University of Illinois (Gies) | 92.00% | 96.10% | $81,138 |
| 26 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 91.00% | 98.24% | $81,009 |
| 27 | University of Miami (Herbert) | 79.35% | 98.79% | $80,586 |
| 28 | Boston University (Questrom) | 96.84% | 98.19% | $77,862 |
| 29 | University of Washington (Foster) | 97.00% | 96.29% | $77,099 |
| 30 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 78.50% | 78.02% | $76,396 |
| 31 | Tulane University (Freeman) | 44.25% | 86.86% | $76,124 |
| 32 | University of San Diego | 71.50% | 88.48% | $75,164 |
| 33 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 94.91% | 97.74% | $74,285 |
| 34 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 85.50% | 94.46% | $73,765 |
| 35 | Loyola Marymount University | 73.00% | 93.19% | $73,440 |
| 36 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 94.20% | 70.97% | $73,259 |
| 37 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | 71.00% | 81.65% | $72,236 |
| 38 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 100.00% | 87.04% | $72,170 |
| 39 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 93.00% | 66.07% | $71,897 |
| 40 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 78.00% | 94.83% | $71,481 |
| 41 | University of Pittsburgh | 91.50% | 95.70% | $71,424 |
| 42 | Miami University (Farmer) | 85.85% | 88.27% | $71,366 |
| 43 | Michigan State University (Broad) | 80.50% | 95.90% | $71,251 |
| 44 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 90.04% | 96.67% | $70,953 |
| 45 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 67.47% | 94.84% | $70,897 |
| 46 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | 41.80% | 86.18% | $70,575 |
| 47 | Purdue University (Daniels) | 89.00% | 93.02% | $69,868 |
| 48 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 70.00% | 93.84% | $69,553 |
| 49 | Elon University (Love) | 100.00% | 97.45% | $68,852 |
| 50 | University of Arizona (Eller) | 85.50% | 83.93% | $68,478 |
| 51 | University of Houston (Bauer) | 59.55% | 89.96% | $68,477 |
| 52 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 93.00% | 70.64% | $68,004 |
| 53 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | 81.00% | 86.33% | $67,846 |
| 54 | American University (Kogod) | 55.00% | 82.68% | $67,665 |
| 55 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 100.00% | 95.09% | $67,455 |
| 56 | Providence College | 92.50% | 95.97% | $66,875 |
| 57 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 87.00% | 86.71% | $66,655 |
| 58 | College of New Jersey | 70.50% | 87.25% | $66,262 |
| 59 | University of Oklahoma (Price) | 60.90% | 84.67% | $65,644 |
| 60 | Sacred Heart University | 47.49% | 54.10% | $65,501 |
| 61 | Seattle University (Albers) | 62.50% | 89.52% | $65,230 |
| 62 | University of Utah (Eccles) | 63.50% | 86.92% | $64,333 |
| 63 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 68.50% | 70.29% | $64,327 |
| 64 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 70.00% | 90.63% | $64,118 |
| 65 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 67.50% | 94.97% | $63,849 |
| 66 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 36.95% | 67.19% | $63,725 |
| 67 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 82.75% | 96.62% | $63,350 |
| 68 | San Diego State University | 53.00% | 80.91% | $63,128 |
| 69 | Florida International University | 19.35% | 87.26% | $62,794 |
| 70 | University of Dayton School of Business Administration | 91.00% | 94.62% | $62,707 |
| 71 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 83.00% | 92.95% | $61,132 |
| 72 | University of Texas at Arlington | 0.00% | 35.83% | $60,676 |
| 73 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 45.70% | 93.88% | $59,604 |
| 74 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 72.50% | 66.17% | $59,560 |
| 75 | Northern Illinois University | 45.10% | 39.57% | $59,404 |
| 76 | Marian University (Byrum) | 100.00% | 98.10% | $59,228 |
| 77 | Towson University | 92.00% | 97.34% | $58,929 |
| 78 | Christopher Newport University | 57.50% | 67.00% | $58,041 |
| 79 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 82.00% | 91.36% | $57,958 |
| 80 | Oregon State University | 80.00% | 72.09% | $57,796 |
| 81 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 85.10% | 76.90% | $56,969 |
| 82 | Ithaca College | 94.50% | 91.38% | $56,424 |
| 83 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 54.30% | 87.24% | $56,346 |
| 84 | Florida Southern College | 90.50% | 99.29% | $56,206 |
| 85 | Ohio University | 81.25% | 90.71% | $56,083 |
| 86 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | 0.00% | 49.51% | $55,943 |
| 87 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 58.50% | 87.52% | $55,608 |
| 88 | University of Evansville (Schroeder) | 97.00% | 93.65% | $55,126 |
| 89 | University of Akron | 64.50% | 90.60% | $54,629 |
| 90 | Lipscomb University | 96.00% | 98.70% | $53,997 |
| 91 | Hult International Business School | 69.50% | 95.38% | $41,700 |
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