AVERAGE FIRST-YEAR SALARIES AT 91 P&Q RANKED B-SCHOOLS
| 2024 Rank | School | 2022 Salary | 2023 Salary | % Change |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $100,655.00 | $107,215.00 | 6.52% |
| 2 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | $83,777.00 | $93,247.00 | 11.30% |
| 3 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | $96,916.00 | $100,859.15 | 4.07% |
| 4 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | $87,116.00 | $93,180.00 | 6.96% |
| 5 | University of Michigan (Ross) | $88,479.00 | $94,294.00 | 6.57% |
| 6 | Cornell University (Dyson SC John) | $88,897.00 | $98,066.00 | 10.31% |
| 7 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | $84,500.00 | $87,000.00 | 2.96% |
| 8 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | $83,525.00 | $86,443.61 | 3.49% |
| 9 | New York University (Stern) | $91,572.00 | $92,066.00 | 0.54% |
| 10 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | $75,219.00 | $82,884.00 | 10.19% |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | $84,328.00 | $90,371.00 | 7.17% |
| 12 | Villanova University School of Business | $77,868.00 | $83,008.00 | 6.60% |
| 13 | Emory University (Goizueta) | $80,973.00 | $85,315.00 | 5.36% |
| 14 | Indiana University (Kelley) | $74,015.00 | $76,705.00 | 3.63% |
| 15 | University of Illinois (Gies) | $73,436.00 | $79,798.00 | 8.66% |
| 16 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | $76,735.00 | $83,640.00 | 9.00% |
| 17 | Boston University (Questrom) | $70,991.00 | $77,079.00 | 8.58% |
| 18 | University of Richmond (Robins) | $78,403.00 | $78,671.00 | 0.34% |
| 19 | University of Washington (Foster) | $72,262.00 | $77,005.00 | 6.56% |
| 20 | Bucknell University | $78,079.00 | $80,886.00 | 3.60% |
| 21 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | $78,561.00 | $78,749.00 | 0.24% |
| 22 | University of Miami (Herbert) | $72,368.00 | $81,796.00 | 13.03% |
| 23 | Lehigh University | $81,065.00 | $83,595.00 | 3.12% |
| 24 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | $66,498.00 | $69,911.00 | 5.13% |
| 25 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | $72,985.00 | $71,151.00 | -2.51% |
| 26 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | $76,651.00 | $81,543.00 | 6.38% |
| 27 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | $68,488.00 | $73,301.00 | 7.03% |
| 28 | Binghamton University | $81,048.00 | $82,683.00 | 2.02% |
| 29 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | $93,019.00 | $94,341.00 | 1.42% |
| 30 | University of Pittsburgh | $63,889.00 | $72,100.00 | 12.85% |
| 31 | Tulane University (Freeman) | $72,121.00 | $74,468.00 | 3.25% |
| 32 | Purdue University (Daniels) | $63,107.00 | $68,857.00 | 9.11% |
| 33 | Wake Forest University | $79,688.00 | $85,783.00 | 7.65% |
| 34 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | $65,183.00 | $71,321.00 | 9.42% |
| 35 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | $59,363.00 | $59,787.00 | 0.71% |
| 36 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | $68,405.00 | $69,151.00 | 1.09% |
| 37 | Providence College | $66,729.00 | $65,441.00 | -1.93% |
| 38 | Hult International Business School | $40,500.00 | $42,900.00 | 5.93% |
| 39 | Loyola Marymount University | $71,047.00 | $71,047.00 | 0.00% |
| 40 | Elon University (Love) | $64,242.00 | $69,012.00 | 7.43% |
| 41 | University of Houston (Bauer) | $64,258.00 | $69,576.00 | 8.28% |
| 42 | Florida Southern College | $58,083.00 | $54,328.00 | -6.46% |
| 43 | Lipscomb University | $52,992.00 | $55,002.00 | 3.79% |
| 44 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | $73,776.00 | $78,854.91 | 6.88% |
| 45 | University of Denver (Daniels) | $64,305.00 | $67,113.00 | 4.37% |
| 46 | Miami University (Farmer) | $67,400.00 | $69,824.00 | 3.60% |
| 47 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | $66,146.00 | $68,564.91 | 3.66% |
| 48 | William & Mary (Mason) | $79,172.00 | $85,287.00 | 7.72% |
| 49 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | $66,988.00 | $70,432.00 | 5.14% |
| 50 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | $65,266.00 | $70,310.00 | 7.73% |
| 51 | University of Arizona (Eller) | $63,440.00 | $66,650.00 | 5.06% |
| 52 | University of San Diego | $68,173.00 | $77,242.00 | 13.30% |
| 53 | University of Evansville (Schroeder) | $53,440.00 | $56,325.00 | 5.40% |
| 54 | University of Dayton School of Business Administration | $60,604.00 | $61,430.00 | 1.36% |
| 55 | Michigan State University (Broad) | $65,379.00 | $70,379.00 | 7.65% |
| 56 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $73,173.00 | $79,619.00 | 8.81% |
| 57 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | $61,416.00 | $64,108.00 | 4.38% |
| 58 | College of New Jersey | $65,000.00 | $65,922.00 | 1.42% |
| 59 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | $65,945.00 | $66,200.00 | 0.39% |
| 60 | Marian University (Byrum) | $56,492.00 | $58,144.00 | 2.92% |
| 61 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | $61,089.00 | $65,255.00 | 6.82% |
| 62 | Drexel University (LeBow) | $68,129.00 | $72,104.00 | 5.83% |
| 63 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | $59,025.00 | $63,159.00 | 7.00% |
| 64 | University of Georgia (Terry) | $68,378.00 | $68,828.00 | 0.66% |
| 65 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | $64,022.00 | $64,582.00 | 0.87% |
| 66 | Ithaca College | $62,961.00 | $49,330.00 | -21.65% |
| 67 | Seattle University (Albers) | $67,314.00 | $63,145.00 | -6.19% |
| 68 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | $58,008.00 | $57,128.00 | -1.52% |
| 69 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | $67,100.00 | $72,900.00 | 8.64% |
| 70 | Towson University | $58,000.00 | $58,000 | 0.00% |
| 71 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | $57,700.00 | $53,333.00 | -7.57% |
| 72 | Ohio University | $54,152.00 | $56,470.09 | 4.28% |
| 73 | University of Oklahoma (Price) | $62,860.00 | $63,193.00 | 0.53% |
| 74 | Christopher Newport University | $56,613.00 | $58,593.00 | 3.50% |
| 75 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | $56,590.00 | $58,353.00 | 3.12% |
| 76 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | $53,187.00 | $57,570.00 | 8.24% |
| 77 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | $66,867.00 | $70,311.00 | 5.15% |
| 78 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | $59,474.00 | $66,022.00 | 11.01% |
| 79 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | $56,697.00 | $56,697.00 | 0.00% |
| 80 | American University (Kogod) | $62,157.00 | $71,900.00 | 15.67% |
| 81 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | $62,728.00 | $62,728.00 | 0.00% |
| 82 | Sacred Heart University | $52,949.00 | $76,303.00 | 44.11% |
| 83 | Oregon State University | $57,282.00 | $57,282.00 | 0.00% |
| 84 | University of Utah (Eccles) | $61,961.00 | $64,500.00 | 4.10% |
| 85 | Florida International University | $61,922.00 | $61,667.00 | -0.41% |
| 86 | Northern Illinois University | $56,963.00 | $59,786.00 | 4.96% |
| 87 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | $58,315.00 | $60,076.00 | 3.02% |
| 88 | San Diego State University | $62,376.00 | $62,286.00 | -0.14% |
| 89 | University of Akron | $51,027.00 | $57,672.91 | 13.02% |
| 90 | University of Texas at Arlington | NR | $60,676.00 | NA |
| 91 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | $55,943.00 | $55,943.00 | 0.00% |
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