AVERAGE TOTAL COMPENSATION AT 104 P&Q RANKED B-SCHOOLS
2025 Rank |
School |
2024 Salary |
2024 Signing Bonus |
2024 % Receiving Bonus |
2024 Adjusted Compensation |
2023 Adjusted Compensation |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $109,479 | $13,307 | 80.6% | $120,206 | $121,367 |
| 2 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | $96,394 | $11,896 | 79.1% | $105,804 | $108,241 |
| 3 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | $90,188 | $9,434 | 65.0% | $96,320 | $101,005 |
| 4 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | $100,733 | $10,952 | 70.4% | $108,445 | $108,167 |
| 4 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | $91,838 | $9,801 | 78.1% | $99,493 | $100,967 |
| 5 | New York University (Stern) | $99,119 | $12,004 | 67.0% | $107,162 | $99,885 |
| 6 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | $91,852 | $11,344 | 72.7% | $100,099 | $97,793 |
| 7 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | $91,440 | $9,981 | 38.0% | $95,233 | $92,059 |
| 8 | Emory University (Goizueta) | $87,719 | $9,815 | 49.0% | $92,528 | $90,780 |
| 9 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | $84,945 | $8,629 | 58.0% | $89,950 | $92,817 |
| 10 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | $94,200 | $10,402 | 78.0% | $102,314 | $103,955 |
| 11 | University of Michigan (Ross) | $94,418 | $10,019 | 82.2% | $102,654 | $102,646 |
| 12 | Villanova University | $85,394 | $7,817 | 39.0% | $88,443 | $85,472 |
| 13 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | $85,578 | $8,476 | 33.0% | $88,375 | $88,502 |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | $80,221 | $7,657 | 64.0% | $85,121 | $89,002 |
| 16 | Boston University (Questrom) | $73,827 | $6,675 | 41.3% | $76,584 | $81,098 |
| 17 | University of Richmond (Robins) | $78,553 | $8,175 | 21.9% | $80,340 | $80,977 |
| 18 | Wake Forest University | $88,203 | $8,353 | 79.0% | $94,802 | $91,621 |
| 19 | University of Illinois (Gies) | $76,742 | $6,003 | 71.0% | $81,004 | $84,297 |
| 20 | William & Mary (Mason) | $80,942 | $8,552 | 49.0% | $85,132 | $89,455 |
| 21 | University of Miami (Herbert) | $74,484 | $7,043 | 47.4% | $77,822 | $76,300 |
| 22 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | $73,896 | $6,687 | 31.0% | $75,971 | $76,377 |
| 23 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | $80,465 | $8,348 | 52.0% | $84,806 | $81,414 |
| 23 | Indiana University (Kelley) | $78,809 | $7,945 | 71.0% | $84,450 | $82,283 |
| 23 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | $70,750 | $6,064 | 53.5% | $73,994 | $72,975 |
| 26 | Lehigh University | $79,183 | $8,666 | 51.0% | $83,603 | $89,207 |
| 27 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | $81,364 | $3,182 | 30.8% | $82,344 | $66,898 |
| 28 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | $74,206 | $6,172 | 23.0% | $75,625 | $73,293 |
| 29 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | $81,776 | $8,111 | 26.0% | $83,885 | $81,677 |
| 30 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | $81,043 | $9,968 | 55.0% | $86,525 | $87,246 |
| 31 | Binghamton University | $86,678 | $9,427 | 24.0% | $88,940 | $86,247 |
| 32 | University of Washington (Foster) | $76,688 | $8,289 | 43.0% | $80,252 | $79,232 |
| 33 | University of Georgia (Terry) | $69,905 | $6,286 | 53.4% | $73,264 | $72,217 |
| 34 | University of Pittsburgh | $67,068 | $7,496 | 31.0% | $69,392 | $75,568 |
| 35 | Tulane University (Freeman) | $76,986 | $6,375 | 10.5% | $77,655 | $77,687 |
| 36 | Purdue University (Daniels) | $66,763 | $7,016 | 47.0% | $70,061 | $72,801 |
| 37 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | $73,922 | $3,601 | 16.3% | $74,509 | $74,722 |
| 38 | Elon University (Love) | $70,877 | $5,778 | 51.7% | $73,864 | $71,335 |
| 39 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | $72,525 | $6,623 | 34.0% | $74,777 | $72,631 |
| 40 | University of Houston (Bauer) | $70,037 | $6,707 | 19.9% | $71,372 | $71,199 |
| 41 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | $71,653 | $7,378 | 14.0% | $72,686 | $74,089 |
| 42 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | $92,518 | $0 | 0.0% | $92,518 | $86,523 |
| 43 | Providence College | $64,556 | $6,119 | 11.0% | $65,229 | $66,077 |
| 44 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | $78,747 | $10,302 | 48.0% | $83,692 | $83,768 |
| 45 | Miami University (Farmer) | $71,392 | $5,592 | 35.0% | $73,349 | $72,308 |
| 46 | Lipscomb University | $56,273 | $6,000 | 2.0% | $56,395 | $55,002 |
| 47 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | $72,770 | $7,811 | 24.0% | $74,645 | $73,544 |
| 48 | Butler University (Lacy) | $64,290 | $4,500 | 20.0% | $65,190 | $62,550 |
| 49 | University of Dayton | $66,689 | $5,473 | 38.0% | $68,769 | $62,921 |
| 50 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | $71,640 | $9,537 | 56.2% | $77,000 | $76,401 |
| 51 | Bryant University | $73,055 | $8,450 | 3.1% | $73,317 | $71,263 |
| 52 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | $70,300 | $8,573 | 41.0% | $73,815 | $70,893 |
| 53 | The College of New Jersey | $70,245 | $3,019 | 9.0% | $70,517 | $67,022 |
| 53 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | $61,507 | $5,619 | 31.0% | $63,249 | $61,529 |
| 55 | Loyola Marymount University | $68,744 | $0 | 0.0% | $68,744 | $71,047 |
| 56 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | $74,552 | $6,579 | 46.0% | $77,578 | $80,283 |
| 57 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | $67,625 | $6,614 | 58.4% | $71,490 | $72,303 |
| 58 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | $60,439 | $4,297 | 53.0% | $62,716 | $64,499 |
| 59 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | $86,827 | $14,167 | 11.0% | $88,385 | $64,656 |
| 59 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | $67,370 | $6,485 | 21.0% | $68,732 | $67,406 |
| 61 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | $59,074 | $0 | 0.0% | $59,074 | $54,654 |
| 62 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | $62,608 | $8,052 | 48.2% | $66,489 | $63,491 |
| 63 | University of Connecticut | $72,035 | $5,455 | 33.3% | $73,852 | $75,736 |
| 64 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | $70,136 | $10,000 | 1.0% | $70,236 | $70,360 |
| 65 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | $69,849 | $11,138 | 21.0% | $72,188 | $66,279 |
| 65 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | $62,503 | $2,683 | 9.0% | $62,744 | $72,295 |
| 67 | Michigan State University (Broad) | $68,442 | $5,723 | 52.0% | $71,418 | $73,842 |
| 67 | Drexel University (LeBow) | $70,100 | $6,953 | 18.0% | $71,352 | $70,673 |
| 67 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | $65,658 | $6,500 | 13.0% | $66,503 | $71,474 |
| 70 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | $71,700 | $7,800 | 20.0% | $73,260 | $74,833 |
| 71 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | $62,083 | $6,146 | 17.1% | $63,134 | $60,724 |
| 72 | Hult International Business School | $44,700 | $0 | 0.0% | $44,700 | $42,900 |
| 73 | Iona University (LaPenta) | $72,600 | $0 | 0.0% | $72,600 | $72,600 |
| 74 | Towson University | $60,500 | $3,900 | 25.4% | $61,491 | $58,958 |
| 75 | Texas State University (McCoy) | $62,455 | $9,667 | 23.0% | $64,678 | $64,395 |
| 76 | Marian University (Indianapolis) | $61,968 | $4,375 | 18.5% | $62,777 | $59,216 |
| 77 | Seattle University (Albers) | $71,437 | $0 | 0.0% | $71,437 | $63,145 |
| 78 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | $57,836 | $2,000 | 1.0% | $57,856 | $56,969 |
| 79 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | $74,404 | $5,667 | 33.6% | $76,308 | $72,661 |
| 79 | Ohio University | $57,206 | $3,248 | 16.0% | $57,726 | $57,354 |
| 81 | University of Denver (Daniels) | $63,861 | $0 | 0.0% | $63,861 | $68,423 |
| 82 | Ithaca College | $56,834 | $5,600 | 4.0% | $57,058 | $49,269 |
| 83 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | $59,065 | $5,009 | 18.0% | $59,967 | $60,616 |
| 84 | University of Mary Washington | $50,673 | $7,500 | 2.0% | $50,823 | $49,705 |
| 85 | Sacred Heart University | $62,777 | $6,338 | 15.0% | $63,728 | $62,177 |
| 86 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | $54,000 | $0 | 0.0% | $54,000 | $54,000 |
| 87 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | $54,085 | $4,875 | 6.3% | $54,392 | $59,014 |
| 88 | Florida International University | $62,905 | $7,128 | 22.0% | $64,473 | $62,417 |
| 89 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | $62,685 | $5,657 | 16.8% | $63,635 | $64,671 |
| 90 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | $60,333 | $4,000 | 4.0% | $60,493 | $53,410 |
| 91 | Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) | $62,959 | $2,231 | 11.0% | $63,204 | $62,983 |
| 92 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | $78,733 | $12,167 | 20.0% | $81,166 | $86,370 |
| 93 | American University (Kogod) | $68,389 | $4,209 | 17.7% | $69,132 | $73,079 |
| 94 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | $66,813 | $6,624 | 28.0% | $68,668 | $67,739 |
| 95 | University of Akron | $61,737 | $6,600 | 1.0% | $61,803 | $58,025 |
| 96 | Oregon State University | $56,535 | $3,800 | 5.0% | $56,725 | $57,140 |
| 97 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | $72,813 | $6,348 | 13.6% | $73,676 | $77,389 |
| 98 | Northern Illinois University | $60,249 | $371 | 9.1% | $60,283 | $59,917 |
| 99 | Iowa State University (Ivy) | $62,139 | $4,943 | 11.5% | $62,708 | $62,063 |
| 100 | University of Kansas | $63,811 | $5,594 | 36.0% | $65,825 | $64,556 |
| 101 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | $67,630 | $8,353 | 8.3% | $68,323 | $62,948 |
| 102 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | $80,272 | $0 | 0.0% | $80,272 | $80,272 |
| 103 | University of Texas at Arlington | $64,500 | $0 | 0.0% | $64,500 | $64,500 |
| 104 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | $58,866 | $0 | 0.0% | $58,866 | $58,866 |
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