Earning a master’s of business administration can help unlock competitive job offers and salaries for graduates.
The average starting salary and bonus was $121,324 for MBA grads in 2024, according to U.S. News and World Report. And getting your MBA from a top-ranked program can make you stand out even more to companies, hiring managers or investors in your own future venture.
LinkedIn just released its 2025 rankings of the top MBA programs in the world, and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University took the No. 1 spot for the second year in a row.
The professional networking platform used exclusive data from its site to determine which MBA programs deliver the best outcomes for students across a range of factors, including job placement, promotion rates, alumni network strength, leadership potential and program diversity, including gender ratios.
Several Ivy League schools, like Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, join Stanford among the top 10 best MBA programs in the world, LinkedIn reports.
