Is this the golden age for MBA graduates? Not if you believe SoFi's pay statistics, where 14 of 19 top business schools showed lower pay, headlined by Stanford, Wharton, and MIT. In fact, just one program (Cornell) had graduates earning $4,000 or more over the previous year.
Business School | 2016 Average Salary | 2015 Average Salary | Difference |
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Stanford GSB | $160,916 | $177,590 | ($16,674) |
Harvard | $149,925 | $158,372 | ($8,447) |
MIT (Sloan) | $151,424 | $161,760 | ($10,336) |
U.C.-Berkeley (Haas) | $151,201 | $152,439 | ($1,238) |
Dartmouth College (Tuck) | $150,433 | $156,446 | ($6,013) |
UCLA (Anderson) | $141,033 | $138,733 | $2,300 |
Columbia University | $173,888 | $183,472 | ($9,584) |
Wharton | $171,671 | $182,214 | ($10,543) |
University of Chicago (Booth) | $154,434 | $157,408 | ($2,974) |
Northwestern (Kellogg) | $146,728 | $153,061 | ($6,333) |
New York University (Stern) | $145,999 | $149,365 | ($3,366) |
University of Virginia (Darden) | $145,565 | $144,927 | $638 |
Cornell University (Johnson) | $143,364 | $138,751 | $4,613 |
Yale University | $141,552 | $140,508 | $1,044 |
Duke (Fuqua) | $139,545 | $139,227 | $318 |
University of Michigan (Ross) | $137,346 | $139,909 | ($2,563) |
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | $131,443 | $134,536 | ($3,093) |
USC (Marshall) | $134,639 | $137,123 | ($2,484) |
Georgetown (McDonough) | $133,622 | $137,464 | ($3,842) |