AVERAGE FIRST-YEAR SALARIES AT 110 P&Q RANKED B-SCHOOLS
2026 Rank |
School |
2024 average salary |
2025 Average Salary |
2-year % Change |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $109,479 | $112,030 | 2.3% |
| 2 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | $91,838 | $94,747 | 3.2% |
| 3 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | $96,394 | $98,943 | 2.6% |
| 4 | University of Michigan (Ross) | $94,418 | $94,909 | 0.5% |
| 5 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | $90,188 | $91,340 | 1.3% |
| 6 | New York University (Stern) | $99,119 | $99,555 | 0.4% |
| 7 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | $100,733 | $102,780 | 2.0% |
| 8 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | $84,945 | $87,212 | 2.7% |
| 9 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | $91,440 | $89,972 | -1.6% |
| 10 | Emory University (Goizueta) | $87,719 | $87,749 | 0.0% |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | $91,852 | $93,536 | 1.8% |
| 12 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | $94,200 | $92,170 | -2.2% |
| 13 | Wake Forest University | $88,203 | $85,806 | -2.7% |
| 14 | Villanova University | $85,394 | $86,083 | 0.8% |
| 15 | University of Illinois (Gies) | $76,742 | $81,498 | 6.2% |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | $80,064 | $82,722 | 3.3% |
| 17 | University of Richmond (Robins) | $78,553 | $81,263 | 3.4% |
| 18 | Boston University (Questrom) | $73,827 | $78,026 | 5.7% |
| 19 | University of Washington (Foster) | $76,688 | $82,357 | 7.4% |
| 20 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | $85,578 | $82,064 | -4.1% |
| 21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | $73,896 | $74,458 | 0.8% |
| 22 | University of Miami (Herbert) | $74,484 | $79,161 | 6.3% |
| 23 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | $70,750 | $73,149 | 3.4% |
| 24 | William & Mary (Mason) | $85,287 | $84,963 | -0.4% |
| 25 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | $81,043 | $85,463 | 5.5% |
| 26 | University of Pittsburgh | $67,068 | $72,152 | 7.6% |
| 27 | Binghamton University | $86,678 | $79,395 | -8.4% |
| 28 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | $74,206 | $81,049 | 9.2% |
| 29 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | $81,776 | $82,568 | 1.0% |
| 30 | Tulane University (Freeman) | $76,986 | $77,484 | 0.6% |
| 31 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | $81,364 | $69,000 | -15.2% |
| 32 | Purdue University (Daniels) | $66,763 | $69,212 | 3.7% |
| 33 | Elon University (Love) | $70,877 | $72,720 | 2.6% |
| 34 | Lehigh University | $79,183 | $83,495 | 5.4% |
| 35 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | $72,770 | $72,808 | 0.1% |
| 36 | University of Georgia (Terry) | $69,905 | $71,927 | 2.9% |
| 37 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | $72,525 | $70,863 | -2.3% |
| 38 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | $80,606 | $80,576 | 0.0% |
| 39 | Miami University (Farmer) | $71,392 | $70,987 | -0.6% |
| 40 | University of Colorado Boulder (Leeds) | $71,650 | $71,650 | 0.0% |
| 41 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | $73,922 | $73,828 | -0.1% |
| 42 | University of Rochester (Simon) | $80,714 | $82,958 | 2.8% |
| 43 | Providence College | $64,556 | $71,542 | 10.8% |
| 44 | Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) | $70,000 | $70,000 | 0.0% |
| 45 | Marquette University | $60,561 | $67,857 | 12.0% |
| 46 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | $71,653 | $70,957 | -1.0% |
| 47 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | $61,507 | $61,564 | 0.1% |
| 48 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) | $92,518 | $78,494 | -15.2% |
| 49 | University of Dayton | $66,689 | $62,738 | -5.9% |
| 50 | Loyola Marymount University | $68,744 | $72,605 | 5.6% |
| 51 | Butler University (Lacy) | $63,789 | $64,213 | 0.7% |
| 52 | University of Houston (Bauer) | $70,037 | $70,162 | 0.2% |
| 53 | The Catholic University of America (Busch) | $72,762 | $79,677 | 9.5% |
| 54 | Lipscomb University | $56,273 | $60,044 | 6.7% |
| 55 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | $78,746 | $76,802 | -2.5% |
| 56 | Susquehanna University (Weis) | $69,978 | $62,907 | -10.1% |
| 57 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | $71,640 | $74,150 | 3.5% |
| 58 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | $69,849 | $69,175 | -1.0% |
| 59 | Bryant University | $73,055 | $73,401 | 0.5% |
| 60 | North Carolina State University (Poole) | $65,124 | $67,508 | 3.7% |
| 61 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | $54,459 | $62,602 | 15.0% |
| 61 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | $63,000 | $61,700 | -2.1% |
| 63 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | $60,439 | $61,042 | 1.0% |
| 64 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | $70,300 | $68,950 | -1.9% |
| 65 | University of Evansville (Schroeder) | $58,694 | $62,000 | 5.6% |
| 66 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | $62,608 | $64,565 | 3.1% |
| 67 | The College of New Jersey | $70,246 | $68,038 | -3.1% |
| 68 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | $67,625 | $67,225 | -0.6% |
| 69 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | $74,552 | $84,145 | 12.9% |
| 70 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | $70,136 | $73,099 | 4.2% |
| 71 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | $67,370 | $64,070 | -4.9% |
| 72 | Towson University | $60,500 | $62,156 | 2.7% |
| 73 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | $74,404 | $73,104 | -1.7% |
| 74 | Marian University | $61,968 | $61,502 | -0.8% |
| 75 | Seattle University (Albers) | $71,437 | $79,472 | 11.2% |
| 76 | Christopher Newport University (Luter) | $62,817 | $60,915 | -3.0% |
| 77 | University of Connecticut | $72,035 | $72,472 | 0.6% |
| 78 | Drexel University (LeBow) | $70,100 | $71,573 | 2.1% |
| 79 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | $65,658 | $66,124 | 0.7% |
| 80 | Hult International Business School | $44,700 | $62,100 | 38.9% |
| 81 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | $62,503 | $57,761 | -7.6% |
| 82 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | $59,258 | $65,576 | 10.7% |
| 83 | Ohio University | $57,206 | $57,358 | 0.3% |
| 84 | University of Denver (Daniels) | $63,861 | $67,110 | 5.1% |
| 85 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | $77,437 | $77,437 | 0.0% |
| 86 | University of Oregon (Lundquist) | $63,356 | $64,364 | 1.6% |
| 87 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | $74,011 | $71,285 | -3.7% |
| 88 | Longwood University | NA | NA | NA |
| 89 | Texas State University (McCoy) | $62,455 | $63,327 | 1.4% |
| 90 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | $59,065 | $67,209 | 13.8% |
| 91 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | $62,685 | $64,509 | 2.9% |
| 92 | University of Mary Washington | $50,673 | $57,230 | 12.9% |
| 93 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | $54,085 | $61,728 | 14.1% |
| 94 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | $69,128 | $73,430 | 6.2% |
| 95 | Ithaca College | $56,834 | $56,834 | 0.0% |
| 96 | American University (Kogod) | $68,389 | $72,272 | 5.7% |
| 97 | Iona University (LaPenta) | $64,455 | $64,455 | 0.0% |
| 98 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | $60,333 | $56,190 | -6.9% |
| 99 | Sacred Heart University (Jack Welch) | $62,976 | $59,416 | -5.7% |
| 100 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | $78,733 | $71,578 | -9.1% |
| 101 | University of Kansas | $63,811 | $60,431 | -5.3% |
| 102 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | $54,000 | $54,000 | 0.0% |
| 103 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | $67,630 | $69,549 | 2.8% |
| 104 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | $68,000 | $73,274 | 7.8% |
| 105 | Florida International University | $62,905 | $68,719 | 9.2% |
| 106 | Oregon State University | $56,535 | $59,400 | 5.1% |
| 107 | Stony Brook University | NA | NA | NA |
| 108 | Northern Illinois University | $60,141 | $67,943 | 13.0% |
| 109 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | $66,907 | NA | NA |
| 110 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | $64,332 | $68,777 | 6.9% |
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