AVERAGE TOTAL COMPENSATION AT 110 P&Q RANKED B-SCHOOLS
2026 Rank |
School |
2025 Average Salary |
2025 Average Signing Bonus |
2025 % received signing bonus |
2025 Adjusted Compensation |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $112,030 | $14,641 | 85.6% | $124,558.3 |
| 2 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | $94,747 | $9,746 | 78.7% | $102,417.1 |
| 3 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | $98,943 | $12,974 | 79.2% | $109,218.4 |
| 4 | University of Michigan (Ross) | $94,909 | $9,871 | 74.9% | $102,302.4 |
| 5 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | $91,340 | $9,597 | 60.0% | $97,098.2 |
| 6 | New York University (Stern) | $99,555 | $11,186 | 70.3% | $107,418.8 |
| 7 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | $102,780 | $9,996 | 73.6% | $110,133.4 |
| 8 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | $87,212 | $8,728 | 78.0% | $94,019.8 |
| 9 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | $89,972 | $9,173 | 55.0% | $95,017.2 |
| 10 | Emory University (Goizueta) | $87,749 | $9,921 | 51.3% | $92,833.5 |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | $93,536 | $9,583 | 68.3% | $100,080.2 |
| 12 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | $92,170 | $14,000 | 73.0% | $102,390.0 |
| 13 | Wake Forest University | $85,806 | $8,245 | 62.0% | $90,917.9 |
| 14 | Villanova University | $86,083 | $8,330 | 44.8% | $89,814.8 |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | $82,722 | $9,003 | 66.0% | $88,664.0 |
| 15 | University of Illinois (Gies) | $81,498 | $7,242 | 66.0% | $86,277.7 |
| 17 | University of Richmond (Robins) | $81,263 | $7,540 | 25.4% | $83,178.2 |
| 18 | Boston University (Questrom) | $78,026 | $8,374 | 41.7% | $81,518.0 |
| 19 | University of Washington (Foster) | $82,357 | $10,768 | 48.0% | $87,525.6 |
| 20 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | $82,064 | $10,526 | 23.0% | $84,485.0 |
| 21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | $74,458 | $6,416 | 36.0% | $76,769.0 |
| 22 | University of Miami (Herbert) | $79,161 | $8,267 | 39.1% | $82,393.4 |
| 23 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | $73,149 | $6,736 | 46.6% | $76,288.0 |
| 24 | William & Mary (Mason) | $84,963 | $8,293 | 39.0% | $88,197.3 |
| 25 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | $85,463 | $9,621 | 59.6% | $91,197.1 |
| 26 | University of Pittsburgh | $72,152 | $7,622 | 11.0% | $72,990.4 |
| 27 | Binghamton University | $79,395 | $7,205 | 24.0% | $81,124.2 |
| 28 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | $81,049 | $8,505 | 59.0% | $86,067.2 |
| 29 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | $82,568 | $7,937 | 30.0% | $84,949.1 |
| 30 | Tulane University (Freeman) | $77,484 | $7,614 | 10.3% | $78,264.4 |
| 31 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | $69,000 | $7,500 | 11.0% | $69,825.0 |
| 32 | Purdue University (Daniels) | $69,212 | $7,149 | 51.0% | $72,858.0 |
| 33 | Elon University (Love) | $72,720 | $6,486 | 44.6% | $75,612.8 |
| 34 | Lehigh University | $83,495 | $8,327 | 53.0% | $87,908.3 |
| 35 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | $72,808 | $8,662 | 31.0% | $75,493.2 |
| 36 | University of Georgia (Terry) | $71,927 | $6,900 | 51.0% | $75,448.8 |
| 37 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | $70,863 | $6,408 | 21.0% | $72,208.7 |
| 38 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | $80,576 | $7,723 | 43.0% | $83,896.9 |
| 39 | Miami University (Farmer) | $70,987 | $6,160 | 38.8% | $73,376.6 |
| 40 | University of Colorado Boulder (Leeds) | $71,650 | $6,600 | 44.6% | $74,593.6 |
| 41 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | $73,828 | $3,788 | 18.0% | $74,509.8 |
| 42 | University of Rochester (Simon) | $82,958 | $11,284 | 52.8% | $88,916.0 |
| 43 | Providence College | $71,542 | $10,500 | 7.0% | $72,277.0 |
| 44 | Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) | $70,000 | $8,637.04 | 33.45% | $72,889.1 |
| 45 | Marquette University | $67,857 | NA | NA | $67,857 |
| 46 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | $70,957 | $7,529 | 9.0% | $71,634.6 |
| 47 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | $61,564 | $5,677 | 31.0% | $63,323.9 |
| 48 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) | $78,494 | $5,950 | 29.0% | $80,219.5 |
| 49 | University of Dayton | $62,738 | $4,657 | 22.4% | $63,783.0 |
| 50 | Loyola Marymount University | $72,605 | $8,790 | 12.6% | $73,712.5 |
| 51 | Butler University (Lacy) | $64,213 | $4,007 | 10.6% | $64,637.7 |
| 52 | University of Houston (Bauer) | $70,162 | $6,531 | 17.2% | $71,285.3 |
| 53 | The Catholic University of America (Busch) | $79,677 | $4,333 | 15.0% | $80,327.0 |
| 54 | Lipscomb University | $60,044 | $6,000 | 2.0% | $60,166.4 |
| 55 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | $76,802 | $9,981 | 51.0% | $81,892.1 |
| 56 | Susquehanna University (Weis) | $62,907 | $4,308 | 10.8% | $63,372.3 |
| 57 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | $74,150 | $6,752 | 34.0% | $76,445.7 |
| 58 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | $69,175 | $8,371 | 20.4% | $70,882.5 |
| 59 | Bryant University | $73,401 | $5,062 | 4.9% | $73,649.0 |
| 60 | North Carolina State University (Poole) | $67,508 | $7,026 | 26.0% | $69,334.8 |
| 61 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | $62,602 | $1,500 | 1.0% | $62,617.0 |
| 61 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | $61,700 | $4,300 | 17.0% | $62,431.0 |
| 63 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | $61,042 | $4,215 | 38.0% | $62,643.7 |
| 64 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | $68,950 | $7,190 | 51.0% | $72,616.9 |
| 65 | University of Evansville (Schroeder) | $62,000 | NA | NA | $62,000 |
| 66 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | $64,565 | $6,500 | 37.0% | $66,970.0 |
| 67 | The College of New Jersey | $68,038 | $4,583 | 5.0% | $68,267.2 |
| 68 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | $67,225 | $7,123 | 51.2% | $70,869.1 |
| 69 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | $84,145 | $9,885 | 41.0% | $88,197.9 |
| 70 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | $73,099 | $10,000 | 1.0% | $73,199.0 |
| 71 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | $64,070 | $9,683 | 8.0% | $64,844.6 |
| 72 | Towson University | $62,156 | $6,142 | 26.0% | $63,752.9 |
| 73 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | $73,104 | $6,329 | 29.6% | $74,977.4 |
| 74 | Marian University | $61,502 | $4,667 | 24.7% | $62,654.7 |
| 75 | Seattle University (Albers) | $79,472 | $5,280 | 4.0% | $79,683.2 |
| 76 | Christopher Newport University (Luter) | $60,915 | $5,041 | 10.0% | $61,419.1 |
| 77 | University of Connecticut | $72,472 | $8,242 | 41.1% | $75,857.0 |
| 78 | Drexel University (LeBow) | $71,573 | $9,469 | 18.0% | $73,277.4 |
| 79 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | $66,124 | $5,875 | 7.0% | $66,535.3 |
| 80 | Hult International Business School | $62,100 | NA | NA | $62,100 |
| 81 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | $57,761 | $1,590 | 5.0% | $57,840.5 |
| 82 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | $65,576 | $3,750 | 15.0% | $66,138.8 |
| 83 | Ohio University | $57,358 | $6,098 | 16.0% | $58,333.7 |
| 84 | University of Denver (Daniels) | $67,110 | $5,250 | 11.5% | $67,713.8 |
| 85 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | $77,437 | $2,182 | 1.6% | $77,471.9 |
| 86 | University of Oregon (Lundquist) | $64,364 | $9,231 | 19.5% | $66,164.1 |
| 87 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | $71,285 | $12,636 | 12.0% | $72,801.3 |
| 88 | Longwood University | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 89 | Texas State University (McCoy) | $63,327 | $3,821 | 18.7% | $64,040.0 |
| 90 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | $67,209 | $4,852 | 17.5% | $68,058.1 |
| 91 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | $64,509 | $5,672 | 11.8% | $65,178.3 |
| 92 | University of Mary Washington | $57,230 | $7,500 | 2.0% | $57,380.0 |
| 93 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | $61,728 | $4,714 | 23.7% | $62,845.2 |
| 94 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | $73,430 | $7,736 | 47.0% | $77,065.9 |
| 95 | Ithaca College | $56,834 | $6,500 | 4.1% | $57,100.5 |
| 96 | American University (Kogod) | $72,272 | $5,979 | 25.9% | $73,822.4 |
| 97 | Iona University (LaPenta) | $64,455 | NA | NA | $64,455 |
| 98 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | $56,190 | $4,666 | 2.4% | $56,302.0 |
| 99 | Sacred Heart University (Jack Welch) | $59,416 | $3,944 | 11.0% | $59,849.8 |
| 100 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | $71,578 | $7,700 | 30.0% | $73,888.0 |
| 101 | University of Kansas | $60,431 | $5,378 | 26.0% | $61,829.3 |
| 102 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | $54,000 | NA | NA | $54,000 |
| 103 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | $69,549 | $5,970 | 18.9% | $70,677.3 |
| 104 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | $73,274 | $6,348 | 13.6% | $74,136.8 |
| 105 | Florida International University | $68,719 | $14,209 | 16.9% | $71,120.3 |
| 106 | Oregon State University | $59,400 | $4,870 | 5.0% | $59,643.5 |
| 107 | Stony Brook University | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 108 | Northern Illinois University | $67,943 | $4,732 | 29.9% | $69,357.9 |
| 109 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 110 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | $68,777 | NA | NA | $68,777 |
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