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Top MBAs for finance 2018

	Rank 2018	Rank 2017	School	Country	Salary ($)	Salary increase (%)	Value for money rank	Career progress rank	Careers service rank	Aims achieved (%)	Work in finance (%)	Stayed in finance (%)	Moved to finance (%)	International students (%)	Female students (%)	International mobility rank	Research rank
	1	1	Stanford Graduate School of Business	US	252,00014,000	12420	1016	32	2316	870	3811	606	237	326	302	3110	62
	2	7	University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	227,00026,000	11120	3017	1011	910	873	341	7918	132	4310	2214	1715	83
	3	5	University of Chicago: Booth	US	211,00032,000	12518	262	2016	21	884	371	4512	296	2611	1317	303	31
	4	2	Harvard Business School	US	245,00013,000	9617	255	192	153	884	284	4816	196	3410	1520	212	74
	5	4	New York University: Stern	US	177,0006,000	13926	392	159	31	891	380	662	231	406	247	324	10
	6	-	MIT: Sloan	US	218,000	102	45	6	24	90	25	63	13	53	24	40	12
	7	6	Insead	France / Singapore	198,0006,000	1081	22	232	405	870	245	5513	143	884	237	20	254
	8	3	University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	184,00025,000	10620	32	1317	205	901	274	601	147	9211	246	113	390
	9	23	Ceibs	China	189,00029,000	17668	74	3016	194	883	263	5324	162	2926	66	1911	435
	10	15	Columbia Business School	US	182,0003,000	1068	441	327	116	883	354	652	210	325	2612	238	113
	11	24	UCLA: Anderson	US	186,00026,000	13530	247	258	14	881	271	560	187	310	97	438	144
	12	11	London Business School	UK	170,0001,000	1038	348	96	333	894	354	506	269	893	275	52	1711
	13	12	University of Hong Kong	China	165,00040,000	13016	135	443	279	871	4126	6323	1914	6313	3621	104	262
	14	16	HKUST Business School	China	165,00011,000	1130	82	523	463	873	357	4619	254	6219	329	93	216
	15	-	Shanghai Jiao Tong University: Antai	China	141,000	265	1	34	38	82	37	50	25	0	30	50	46
	16	21	Iese Business School	Spain	168,00022,000	11727	4614	110	298	871	264	6316	151	833	2517	62	422
	17	9	Dartmouth College: Tuck	US	193,0004,000	1092	389	408	130	894	249	638	139	299	1323	224	186
	18	20	Cornell University: Johnson	US	169,00015,000	1259	335	248	145	881	380	703	169	221	94	423	1310
	19	10	Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	187,0009,000	8530	411	1710	171	881	189	7410	77	3911	192	257	104
	20	28	Yale School of Management	US	180,00014,000	12326	361	4331	1014	883	240	3713	197	1913	227	204	2014
	21	27	Duke University: Fuqua	US	180,00015,000	12125	401	186	225	862	212	503	144	361	1222	331	155
	22	25	City, University of London: Cass	UK	146,00018,000	9918	1412	2214	353	863	322	807	92	800	329	72	192
	23	34	University of Southern California: Marshall	US	164,00021,000	13920	472	1133	3616	862	148	3612	95	91	4019	442	58
	24	-	Imperial College Business School	UK	157,000	123	16	46	41	84	29	67	14	58	45	15	32
	25	8	University of Oxford: Saïd	UK	155,0000	10410	52	2826	4315	871	310	5329	191	874	715	120	242
	26	-	Renmin University of China Business School (RMBS)	China	109,000	205	15	2	12	89	53	11	50	5	26	49	46
	27	37	University of North Carolina: Kenan-Flagler	US	159,00034,000	13341	2718	818	59	873	259	3144	210	170	152	470	151
	28	32	Georgetown University: McDonough	US	160,00020,000	15246	359	274	261	883	2210	569	165	3815	2010	393	368
	29	30	Rice University: Jones	US	189,00030,000	14322	1111	500	3228	863	240	3133	207	3114	202	462	322
	30	-	Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian	Singapore	111,000	200	9	16	49	91	21	70	8	80	30	27	26
	31	14	CUHK Business School	China	137,0002,000	14412	1710	3530	347	853	377	4654	2817	6214	2319	161	382
	32	47	Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	US	164,00034,000	13550	1830	459	719	884	235	382	195	310	141	376	353
	33	-	Boston College: Carroll	US	131,000	69	32	21	25	86	53	53	30	26	27	35	2
	34	22	National University of Singapore Business School	Singapore	133,0001,000	12217	217	394	485	860	330	806	1014	876	2914	83	3011
	35	36	Babson College: Olin	US	154,0005,000	1260	311	72	399	851	3114	6737	121	605	152	363	450
	36	-	IMD Business School	Switzerland	175,000	72	4	33	47	82	14	60	5	100	20	1	48
	37	13	University of Michigan: Ross	US	166,0003,000	11519	4225	361	60	901	145	4718	97	325	013	4112	2313
	38	33	University of California at Berkeley: Haas	US	161,0006,000	8213	5014	474	82	851	2612	4710	189	2716	209	245	92
	39	48	Esade Business School	Spain	146,00016,000	11150	379	2611	375	857	224	5915	135	8812	3813	134	490
	40	26	HEC Paris	France	151,00018,000	1014	1211	4819	5017	840	234	631	102	795	2221	43	224
	41	17	University of Virginia: Darden	US	167,0005,000	8863	4827	4122	1810	861	233	6526	1110	232	276	341	285
	42	29	Alliance Manchester Business School	UK	131,00016,000	1101	4328	144	286	834	266	587	166	845	328	142	411
	43	-	Emory University: Goizueta	US	143,000	106	22	4	4	89	22	46	15	23	0	45	37
	44	46	Indian School of Business	India	152,00010,000	17843	204	378	428	820	135	468	84	31	3120	380	493
	45	35	University of Rochester: Simon	US	123,0004,000	14628	281	2919	317	870	315	1931	292	5025	134	2915	298
	46	-	Brigham Young University: Marriott	US	127,000	118	6	31	21	87	21	47	15	0	7	28	40
	47	-	SMU: Cox	US	123,000	95	29	42	30	83	43	35	36	10	15	48	31
	48	45	University of Toronto: Rotman	Canada	100,00014,000	6520	491	497	458	841	481	4533	381	292	2213	182	45
	49	44	Western University: Ivey	Canada	109,0006,000	8718	237	387	1615	873	366	5531	200	3218	1413	261	443
	50	-	Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University	Netherlands	103,000	50	19	12	44	79	17	27	14	73	18	3	34
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Table notesResearch ranks is based on articles published in the following journals: Journal of Finance Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis Journal of Financial Economics Review of Finance Review of Financial Studies

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