Spent some time going through a lot of the employment reports. I find most of the official rankings directionally OK, but only just as a starter. For buyside (which is where most of us want to end up), directionally again M7 is probably the best bet. However, breaking that out: H/S/W dominate, which shouldn’t be that much of a surprise. It even looks like H/S are in a tier of their own, which again directionaly that has been the case with the rankings I’d say.
Chicago and CBS are next. LBS (not in M7) trails slightly, but is about on par. One note for CBS and Chicago, the IM/HF side includes “research and other,” meaning that also bundles in sell-side and other non-true buyside so it’s inflated. That doesn’t seem to be the case for LBS based on conv. I’ve had with students/career services (other is PWM). I can’t find per industry salaries, so for LBS I just use the class average, thus the salaries would likely be higher.
NYU and UCLA trail those. UCLA actually does fairly well in IM, surprisingly.
I was really surprised with how poorly MIT does though.
I didn’t look across the rest of the schools, but for buyside I have a hard time imagining the other schools (aside from say INSEAD and maybe NUS) would be able to share a slot in this list consistently (for buyside). I did look at Berkely; I didn’t see a breakdown, but with finance at just around 10-11% of hires I doubt buyside is a meaningful number once you weed out banking, SS ER, etc…
Also note that I did the %'s by industry rather than by function b/c some schools only report the former. As such, the true %'s might be inflated slightly b/c it probably includes MO and BO. I found the difference to be anywhere from 0-150bps with most about 50bps (the school with the largest difference was UCLA, which to me makes sense).
2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Stanford 25.00% 22.00% 27.00% 32.00% 23.00% IM/HF/Other 8.00% 7.00% 7.00% 11.00% 9.00% PE/VC 17.00% 15.00% 20.00% 21.00% 14.00% Avg. Salary $154,047 $146,250 $160,463 $144,453 $143,043 HBS 25.00% 19.00% 24.00% 28.00% 21.00% IM/HF/Other 10.00% 9.00% 8.00% 12.00% 9.00% PE/VC 15.00% 10.00% 16.00% 16.00% 12.00% Avg. Salary $146,000 N/A N/A N/A N/A Wharton 20.30% 22.80% 22.20% 17.04% 18.60% IM/HF/Other 10.10% 9.70% 10.40% 9.39% 10.80% PE/VC 10.20% 13.10% 11.80% 7.65% 7.80% Avg. Salary $135,049 $137,697 $134,739 $127,510 $125,484 C. Booth 15.20% 14.40% 16.50% N/A N/A IM/HF/Other 7.30% 8.30% 9.40% N/A N/A PE/VC 7.90% 6.10% 7.10% N/A N/A Avg. Salary $128,125 $106,823 N/A N/A N/A CBS 13.00% 12.70% 15.30% 12.60% 14.60% IM/HF/Other 10.60% 9.50% 11.00% 6.90% 10.90% PE/VC 2.40% 3.20% 4.30% 5.70% 3.70% Avg. Salary $127,292 $125,827 $121,830 $122,222 $108,134 LBS 13.00% 14.00% 12.00% 14.00% 10.00% IM/HF/Other 6.00% 8.00% 5.00% 7.00% 6.00% PE/VC 7.00% 6.00% 7.00% 7.00% 4.00% Avg. Salary $119,225 $113,737 $113,779 $121,206 $113,316 NYU 5.00% 7.00% 9.00% 7.00% 7.00% IM/HF/Other 4.00% 4.00% 6.00% 4.00% 4.00% PE/VC 1.00% 3.00% 3.00% 3.00% 3.00% Avg. Salary $121,429 N/A N/A N/A N/A UCLA 8.10% N/A N/A N/A N/A IM/HF/Other 5.80% N/A N/A N/A N/A PE/VC 2.30% N/A N/A N/A N/A Avg. Salary $110,265 N/A N/A N/A N/A MIT 3.90% 7.50% 7.90% 7.00% N/A IM/HF/Other 2.30% 1.50% 6.20% 4.40% N/A PE/VC 1.60% 6.00% 1.70% 2.60% N/A Avg. Salary $122,833 $126,305 $123,015 $118,659 N/A