UVA Darden Highlighted by Poets & Quants as School Where Graduates Get the Highest Pay
As the gap for MBA graduate pay widens among top business schools, Poets & Quants notes that compensation for Darden graduates is more than keeping pace with the lead pack.
After U.S. News & World Report released its Best Business Schools 2020 ranking, placing the University of Virginia Darden School of Business No. 3 for highest compensation among all U.S. business school 2018 graduating classes, online B-school news site Poets & Quants broke down the pay rankings with an in-depth look at compensation trends for graduates from MBA programs.
The publication noted that the gap in compensation between “elite schools” and the pack is getting broader by the year.
It’s the big question: Which school confers an MBA with the greatest money-making power? Even those who go to business school wanting to change the world for the better would prefer to be well-compensated while they go about it.
It will surprise exactly no one that the best bang for your B-school buck comes at the elite schools. In 2018, according to data reported to U.S. News & World Report, The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania had the top average pay (salary plus bonus), at $165,528. (Wharton also saw the biggest five-year increase in average pay among the top 10 ranked schools, at 16.1%.) Wharton unseats Stanford Graduate School of Business, which was the top school in 2017; a year later, Stanford is No. 2 in the pay sweepstakes, at $162,704, followed by the University of Virginia Darden School of Business ($160,711), Harvard Business School ($159,314), and MIT’s Sloan School of Management ($159,245). The average for the 10 highest-ranked schools: $156,837.
Read the full Poets & Quants report on MBA graduate compensation trends.
About UVA Darden School of Business
The University of Virginia Darden School of Business prepares responsible global leaders through unparalleled transformational learning experiences.
Darden's graduate degree programs and Executive Education & Lifelong Learning programs offered by the Darden School Foundation set the stage for a lifetime of career advancement and impact.
