The experts may peg Northwestern Kellogg as the top MBA program in Marketing, but the marketplace has other ideas. In terms of pay, Kellogg grads averaged the 10th-best base salaries in 2019 at $122,930. That’s nearly $20K less than the industry’s top performer: Stanford GSB. Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Wharton, and Berkeley Haas MBAs also topped the $130K mark in 2019. In addition, UCLA Anderson ranked among the Top 10 MBA programs at $126,202, with Carnegie Mellon Tepper, USC Marshall, Georgia Tech Scheller, Vanderbilt Owen, and Rochester Scheller also punching above their overall ranking weight in Marketing. Compared to 2015, USC Marshall MBAs have made the biggest strides, improving their pay by $26,623. Over those same four years, eight schools have seen their marketing grads improve their pay by over $20K, including Vanderbilt Owen, NYU Stern, Wharton, Stanford GSB, Columbia Business School, Cornell Johnson, and UCLA Anderson. Overall, a HBS grad nabbed the highest marketing starting paycheck at $315K, with grads from Wharton, MIT Sloan, and USC Marshall each boasting a 2019 MBA who pulled down $200K in base.