AVERAGE FIRST-YEAR SALARIES AT 104 P&Q RANKED B-SCHOOLS
Average Salaries At Ranked B-Schools |
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2025 Rank |
School |
2024 Salary |
2023 Salary |
% Change |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $109,479.00 | $107,215.00 | 2.11% |
| 2 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | $96,394.00 | $98,066.00 | -1.70% |
| 3 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | $90,188.00 | $93,247.00 | -3.28% |
| 4 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | $100,732.94 | $100,859.15 | -0.13% |
| 4 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | $91,838.00 | $93,180.00 | -1.44% |
| 5 | New York University (Stern) | $99,119.00 | $92,066.00 | 7.66% |
| 6 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | $91,852.00 | $90,371.00 | 1.64% |
| 7 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | $91,440.00 | $89,037.00 | 2.70% |
| 8 | Emory University (Goizueta) | $87,719.00 | $85,315.00 | 2.82% |
| 9 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | $84,945.14 | $86,433.61 | -1.72% |
| 10 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | $94,200.00 | $94,341.00 | -0.15% |
| 11 | University of Michigan (Ross) | $94,418.00 | $94,294.00 | 0.13% |
| 12 | Villanova University | $85,394.00 | $83,008.00 | 2.87% |
| 13 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | $85,578.00 | $85,510.00 | 0.08% |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | $80,221.00 | $82,884.00 | -3.21% |
| 16 | Boston University (Questrom) | $73,827.00 | $77,079.00 | -4.22% |
| 17 | University of Richmond (Robins) | $78,553.00 | $78,671.00 | -0.15% |
| 18 | Wake Forest University | $88,203.00 | $85,783.00 | 2.82% |
| 19 | University of Illinois (Gies) | $76,742.00 | $79,798.00 | -3.83% |
| 20 | William & Mary (Mason) | $80,942.00 | $85,287.00 | -5.09% |
| 21 | University of Miami (Herbert) | $74,484.00 | $72,368.00 | 2.92% |
| 22 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | $73,896.00 | $73,301.00 | 0.81% |
| 23 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | $80,465.00 | $79,295.00 | 1.48% |
| 23 | Indiana University (Kelley) | $78,809.00 | $76,705.00 | 2.74% |
| 23 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | $70,750.00 | $69,911.00 | 1.20% |
| 26 | Lehigh University | $79,183.00 | $83,595.00 | -5.28% |
| 27 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | $81,364.00 | $66,040.00 | 23.20% |
| 28 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | $74,206.00 | $71,151.00 | 4.29% |
| 29 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | $81,776.00 | $78,749.00 | 3.84% |
| 30 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | $81,043.00 | $81,543.00 | -0.61% |
| 31 | Binghamton University | $86,678.00 | $82,683.00 | 4.83% |
| 32 | University of Washington (Foster) | $76,688.00 | $77,005.00 | -0.41% |
| 33 | University of Georgia (Terry) | $69,905.00 | $68,828.00 | 1.56% |
| 34 | University of Pittsburgh | $67,068.00 | $72,100.00 | -6.98% |
| 35 | Tulane University (Freeman) | $76,986.00 | $74,468.00 | 3.38% |
| 36 | Purdue University (Daniels) | $66,763.00 | $68,857.00 | -3.04% |
| 37 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | $73,922.00 | $73,934.00 | -0.02% |
| 38 | Elon University (Love) | $70,877.00 | $69,012.00 | 2.70% |
| 39 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | $72,525.00 | $69,151.00 | 4.88% |
| 40 | University of Houston (Bauer) | $70,037.00 | $69,576.00 | 0.66% |
| 41 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | $71,653.00 | $72,580.00 | -1.28% |
| 42 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $92,518.00 | $86,523.00 | 6.93% |
| 43 | Providence College | $64,556.00 | $65,441.00 | -1.35% |
| 44 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | $78,746.87 | $78,854.91 | -0.14% |
| 45 | Miami University (Farmer) | $71,392.00 | $69,824.00 | 2.25% |
| 46 | Lipscomb University | $56,273.00 | $55,002.00 | 2.31% |
| 47 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | $72,770.00 | $71,796.00 | 1.36% |
| 48 | Butler University (Lacy) | $64,290.00 | $61,630.00 | 4.32% |
| 49 | University of Dayton | $66,689.00 | $61,430.00 | 8.56% |
| 50 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | $71,640.00 | $71,321.00 | 0.45% |
| 51 | Bryant University | $73,055.00 | $70,775.00 | 3.22% |
| 52 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | $70,300.00 | $67,470.00 | 4.19% |
| 53 | The College of New Jersey | $70,245.00 | $65,922.00 | 6.56% |
| 53 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | $61,507.00 | $59,787.00 | 2.88% |
| 55 | Loyola Marymount University | $68,744.00 | $71,047.00 | -3.24% |
| 56 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | $74,552.00 | $77,242.00 | -3.48% |
| 57 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | $67,624.91 | $68,564.91 | -1.37% |
| 58 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | $60,439.00 | $62,149.00 | -2.75% |
| 59 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | $86,827.00 | $64,108.00 | 35.44% |
| 59 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | $67,370.00 | $66,200.00 | 1.77% |
| 61 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | $59,074.00 | $54,501.00 | 8.39% |
| 62 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | $62,608.00 | $62,268.00 | 0.55% |
| 63 | University of Connecticut | $72,035.00 | $71,754.00 | 0.39% |
| 64 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | $70,136.00 | $70,310.00 | -0.25% |
| 65 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | $62,502.76 | $72,000.00 | -13.19% |
| 65 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | $69,849.00 | $65,255.00 | 7.04% |
| 67 | Drexel University (LeBow) | $70,100.47 | $69,083.33 | 1.47% |
| 67 | Michigan State University (Broad) | $68,442.00 | $70,379.00 | -2.75% |
| 67 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | $65,658.00 | $70,432.00 | -6.78% |
| 70 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | $71,700.00 | $72,900.00 | -1.65% |
| 71 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | $62,083.00 | $59,900.00 | 3.64% |
| 72 | Hult International Business School | $44,700.00 | $42,900.00 | 4.20% |
| 73 | Iona University (LaPenta) | $72,600.00 | $72,600.00 | 0.00% |
| 74 | Towson University | $60,500.00 | $58,300.00 | 3.77% |
| 75 | Texas State University (McCoy) | $62,455.00 | $63,275.00 | -1.30% |
| 76 | Marian University (Indianapolis) | $61,968.00 | $58,144.00 | 6.58% |
| 77 | Seattle University (Albers) | $71,437.00 | $63,145.00 | 13.13% |
| 78 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | $57,836.00 | $56,697.00 | 2.01% |
| 79 | Ohio University | $57,206.30 | $56,470.09 | 1.30% |
| 79 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | $74,404.00 | $70,311.00 | 5.82% |
| 81 | University of Denver (Daniels) | $63,860.50 | $67,113.00 | -4.85% |
| 82 | Ithaca College | $56,834.00 | $49,139.00 | 15.66% |
| 83 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | $59,065.00 | $58,353.00 | 1.22% |
| 84 | University of Mary Washington | $50,673.00 | $49,705.00 | 1.95% |
| 85 | Sacred Heart University | $62,777.00 | $61,145.00 | 2.67% |
| 86 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | $54,000.00 | $54,000.00 | 0.00% |
| 87 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | $54,085.00 | $57,570.00 | -6.05% |
| 88 | Florida International University | $62,905.00 | $61,667.00 | 2.01% |
| 89 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | $62,685.00 | $64,048.00 | -2.13% |
| 90 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | $60,333.00 | $53,333.00 | 13.13% |
| 91 | Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) | $62,959.00 | $62,700.00 | 0.41% |
| 92 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | $78,733.00 | $83,500.00 | -5.71% |
| 93 | American University (Kogod) | $68,389.00 | $71,900.00 | -4.88% |
| 94 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | $66,813.00 | $66,022.00 | 1.20% |
| 95 | University of Akron | $61,736.81 | $57,672.91 | 7.05% |
| 96 | Oregon State University | $56,535.00 | $56,930.00 | -0.69% |
| 97 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | $72,813.00 | $77,091.00 | -5.55% |
| 98 | Northern Illinois University | $60,249.00 | $59,787.00 | 0.77% |
| 99 | Iowa State University (Ivy) | $62,138.92 | $61,409.68 | 1.19% |
| 100 | University of Kansas | $63,811.00 | $63,000.00 | 1.29% |
| 101 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | $67,630.00 | $62,286.00 | 8.58% |
| 102 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | $80,272.00 | $80,272.00 | 0.00% |
| 103 | University of Texas at Arlington | $64,500.00 | $64,500.00 | 0.00% |
| 104 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | $58,866.00 | $58,866.00 | 0.00% |
PAGE 4: Average signing bonuses for Class of 2024
PAGE 5: Average first-year adjusted total compensation for Class of 2024
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