1 Harvard Business School
20-Year Income: $3,233,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $138,346
Top Five Industry Choices:
- Financial Services: 27%
- Consulting: 22%
- Technology: 18%
- Manufacturing: 7%
- Consumer Products: 6%
Data courtesy of Payscale.
2 Stanford Graduate School of Business
20-Year Income: $3,011,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $137,525
Top Five Industry Choices:
Technology: 32%
Financial Services: 26%
Consulting: 19%
Healthcare: 6%
Non-Profit: 5%
3 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
20-Year Income: $2,989,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $141,243
Top Five Industry Choices:
Financial Services: 39%
Consulting: 29%
Technology: 11%
Consumer Products & Retail: 7%
Healthcare: 4%
4 UC-Berkeley (Haas)
20-Year Income: $2,858,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $134,078
Top Five Industry Choices:
Technology: 33%
Consulting: 17%
Financial Services: 11%
Healthcare: 11%
Consumer Products & Retail: 7%
5 Columbia Business School
Columbia University
With a staggering breadth of course offerings and a New York location, Columbia has a faculty of young rising superstars and practiced and accomplished veterans. Though the school has a reputation as a "corporate law firm factory," public interest law is still a strong suit.20-Year Income: $2,796,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $137,654
Top Five Industry Choices:
Financial Services: 38%
Consulting: 30%
Technology: 12%
Consumer Products & Retail: 8%
Real Estate: 3%
6 MIT (Sloan)
20-Year Income: $2,858,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $137,057
Top Five Industry Choices:
Consulting: 32%
Technology: 19%
Financial Services: 16%
Consumer Products & Retail: 14%
Healthcare: 5%
7 University of Virginia (Darden)
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia School of Law has a solid academic reputation, but another factor convinces many prospective students to enroll: current students don't want to leave. "They all typically wish they could be here forever, which is unheard of among people who go to law school," says Anne Richard, senior assistant dean for admissions. In fact, UVA has the highest rate of alumni giving among law schools—a sign of happy graduates, if there ever was one.20-Year Income: $2,705,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $136,102
Top Five Industry Choices:
Consulting: 27%
Financial Services: 26%
Technology: 14%
Manufacturing: 12%
Consumer Products & Retail: 13%
8 Dartmouth College (Tuck)
20-Year Income: 2,703,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $139,036
Top Five Industry Choices:
Financial Services: 30%
Consulting: 27%
Technology: 13%
Consumer Products & Retail: 10%
Manufacturing: 6%
9 New York University (Stern)
Stern - NYU
Index: 90.4 2012 rank: 5 Total program cost: $157,000 Format: Alternating Friday-Saturday classes, with two global study tours Length of program: 22 months Class of 2014: 60 students Average age: 38 Average years of work experience: 1420-Year Income: $2,639,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $131,975
Top Five Industry Choices:
Financial Services: 42%
Consulting: 23%
Consumer Products & Retail: 13%
Entertainment/Media/Technology: 10%
Non-Profits: 6%
10 UCLA (Anderson)
UCLA - Anderson
Index: 88.8 2012 rank: 6 Total program cost: $129,500 Format: Alternating Friday-Saturday classes, with five residential sessions Length of program: 22 months Class of 2014: 75 students Acceptance rate: 57% Average age: 36 Average years of work experience: 13 Average undergraduate GPA: 3.33 Average GMAT: 66820-Year Income: $2,593,000
2013 Starting Salary & Bonus: $123,353
Top Five Industry Choices:
Technology: 26%
Financial Services: 20%
Consulting: 14%
Consumer Products & Retail: 14%
Entertainment/Media/Technology: 9%
Healhcare: 6%