| Rank in 2012 | School name | Country | Weighted salary (US$) |
| 1 | Stanford Graduate School of Business | US | 192179 |
| 2 | Harvard Business School | US | 178249 |
| 3 | University of Pennsylvania: Wharton | US | 172353 |
| 4 | London Business School | UK | 152981 |
| 5 | Columbia Business School | US | 166497 |
| 6 | Insead | France / Singapore | 144355 |
| 7 | MIT: Sloan | US | 157337 |
| 8 | IE Business School | Spain | 156658 |
| 9 | Iese Business School | Spain | 133888 |
| 10 | Hong Kong UST Business School | China | 127600 |
| 11 | Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) | India | 175076 |
| 12 | University of Chicago: Booth | US | 152585 |
| 13 | IMD | Switzerland | 144045 |
| 14 | University of California at Berkeley: Haas | US | 146811 |
| 15 | Duke University: Fuqua | US | 139405 |
| 16 | Northwestern University: Kellogg | US | 145834 |
| 17 | New York University: Stern | US | 134093 |
| 18 | HEC Paris | France | 121061 |
| 19 | Dartmouth College: Tuck | US | 151182 |
| 20 | Indian School of Business | India | 129512 |
| 20 | Yale School of Management | US | 142455 |
| 20 | University of Oxford: Saïd | UK | 134805 |
| 23 | National University of Singapore School of Business | Singapore | 97625 |
| 24 | Ceibs | China | 123058 |
| 24 | Cornell University: Johnson | US | 141727 |