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Returns on Careers
JOB TOTAL SALARY YEARS TO
CATEGORY INVESTMENT* INCREASE, PAY BACK
POST-MBA
CONSULTING
FASTEST Pittsburgh $78,300 64% 3.3
SLOWEST Rochester 152,200 85 6.5
AVERAGE 128,800 96 4.6
FINANCE
FASTEST BYU** 72,900 148 3.5
SLOWEST Babson 144,600 67 8.1
AVERAGE 130,600 71 5.1
MARKETING
FASTEST Pittsburgh 75,300 80 3.3
SLOWEST Columbia 177,400 40 7.8
AVERAGE 127,600 84 5.5
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
FASTEST Emory $109,500 250% 4.0
SLOWEST Stanford 211,800 9 9.0
AVERAGE 139,900 54 6.0
INFO TECH
FASTEST Arizona
State 89,877 120 4.0
SLOWEST Harvard 206,900 35 7.4
AVERAGE 129,800 67 5.9
OPERATIONS
FASTEST Pittsburgh 68,300 125 2.5
SLOWEST Yale 135,200 128 8.1
AVERAGE 133,200 76 5.6
* Two years of lost earnings plus pretax income needed for tuition. Calculated
from student survey respondents within each job track.
Averages are from BW student surveys of 61 schools.
** Same payback time as Iowa, but higher salary increase.
DATA: BUSINESS WEEK, JENS STEPHAN, UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI
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Updated Oct. 8, 1998 by bwwebmaster
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