USC Marshall School of Business
CAREER OUTCOMES
Three metrics are used to calculate our Career Outcomes category, worth one third of the overall ranking. They are the employment rate of job-seeking graduates three months after graduation (50%), percentage of graduates who had a business-focused internship during their college experience (20%), and the average total first-year compensation for recent graduates (30%).
We use an average of data from the last two graduating classes for this category, so the Classes of 2023 and 2024.
Career Rank |
School |
Index score |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 100.0 |
| 2 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 92.1 |
| 3 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | 91.4 |
| 4 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 90.2 |
| 5 | New York University (Stern) | 87.6 |
| 6 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 87.1 |
| 7 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 86.7 |
| 8 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 86.2 |
| 9 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | 86.0 |
| 10 | Wake Forest University | 84.6 |
| 11 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 84.3 |
| 12 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 83.6 |
| 13 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 81.9 |
| 14 | Villanova University | 81.1 |
| 15 | University of Richmond (Robins) | 79.6 |
| 16 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 78.7 |
| 17 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | 77.8 |
| 18 | Boston University (Questrom) | 77.6 |
| 19 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 77.3 |
| 20 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 76.6 |
| 21 | University of Illinois (Gies) | 76.4 |
| 22 | University of Washington (Foster) | 75.5 |
| 23 | University of Miami (Herbert) | 75.0 |
| 24 | Elon University (Love) | 74.9 |
| 25 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 74.7 |
| 25 | Lehigh University | 74.7 |
| 27 | Binghamton University | 74.1 |
| 28 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 73.8 |
| 29 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 73.6 |
| 30 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 73.0 |
| 31 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 72.6 |
| 32 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | 72.5 |
| 33 | William & Mary (Mason) | 71.7 |
| 34 | University of Pittsburgh | 71.4 |
| 35 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 71.2 |
| 36 | Butler University (Lacy) | 71.1 |
| 37 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | 70.8 |
| 38 | Michigan State University (Broad) | 69.5 |
| 39 | Marian University (Indianapolis) | 69.4 |
| 40 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 68.9 |
| 41 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 68.4 |
| 41 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | 68.4 |
| 43 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 68.2 |
| 44 | University of Dayton | 68.1 |
| 45 | Providence College | 67.4 |
| 45 | Miami University (Farmer) | 67.4 |
| 47 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | 67.2 |
| 48 | Purdue University (Daniels) | 66.9 |
| 49 | Towson University | 66.5 |
| 49 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | 66.5 |
| 51 | Lipscomb University | 65.9 |
| 52 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 65.6 |
| 53 | Bryant University | 65.4 |
| 54 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 65.3 |
| 55 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | 64.7 |
| 56 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 64.6 |
| 57 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 64.5 |
| 58 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 64.3 |
| 59 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 63.9 |
| 60 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | 62.9 |
| 61 | Seattle University (Albers) | 61.7 |
| 62 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 61.6 |
| 63 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 61.5 |
| 64 | The College of New Jersey | 61.4 |
| 65 | Loyola Marymount University | 60.9 |
| 66 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 60.3 |
| 67 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 60.2 |
| 68 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | 60.0 |
| 69 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 58.6 |
| 70 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 58.2 |
| 71 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 57.7 |
| 72 | Tulane University (Freeman) | 57.6 |
| 73 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 57.5 |
| 74 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | 57.4 |
| 75 | University of Houston (Bauer) | 57.0 |
| 76 | Ohio University | 54.4 |
| 77 | Texas State University (McCoy) | 54.3 |
| 78 | Ithaca College | 54.2 |
| 79 | Iona University (LaPenta) | 54.1 |
| 80 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | 54.0 |
| 80 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 54.0 |
| 82 | University of Kansas | 52.6 |
| 83 | University of Akron | 52.2 |
| 84 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 51.6 |
| 85 | Oregon State University | 51.3 |
| 86 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 50.7 |
| 87 | Hult International Business School | 49.4 |
| 88 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 48.7 |
| 89 | Florida International University | 46.3 |
| 90 | Sacred Heart University | 45.4 |
| 91 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | 45.2 |
| 92 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 44.6 |
| 93 | University of Connecticut | 44.4 |
| 94 | American University (Kogod) | 42.5 |
| 95 | University of Mary Washington | 41.0 |
| 96 | Iowa State University (Ivy) | 38.0 |
| 96 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 38.0 |
| 98 | Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) | 37.6 |
| 99 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 37.4 |
| 100 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 29.0 |
| 101 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 22.7 |
| 102 | Northern Illinois University | 19.7 |
| 103 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | 0.3 |
| 104 | University of Texas at Arlington | 0.0 |
Page 3: Admission Standards rank
Page 4: Career Outcomes rank
Page 5: Academic Experience rank
Page 6: Final P&Q ranking of 2025
