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MBA Sign On Bonus

Below are the average and median sign-on bonuses at top business schools:

SchoolAverage Sign-on BonusMedian Sign-on Bonus
IMD$23,000$20,250
London Business School$23,054$23,745
Harvard (HBS)$17,385$15,000
INSEAD$15,000
Stanford (GSB)$16,400$15,000
MIT (Sloan)$14,451$10,000
Pennsylvania (Wharton)$16,803$15,000
Northwestern (Kellogg)$14,380$15,000
UC Berkeley (Haas)$12,824$13,000
Dartmouth (Tuck)$17,000$15,000
Duke (Fuqua)$15,183$15,000
Columbia$17,363$20,000
UCLA (Anderson)$15,621$15,000
NYU (Stern)$19,767$20,000
Yale (SOM)$16,061$15,000
Chicago (GSB)$15,832$15,000
Michigan (Ross)$16,466$15,000
Carnegie Melon (Tepper)$12,550$10,000
Virginia (Darden)$10,936$10,000
Cornell (Johnson)$15,500$15,000
UNC Chapel-Hill (Kenan-Flagler)$14,163$12,500
Emory (Goizueta)$12,886$10,000
Texas (McCombs)$12,281$10,000
Georgetown (McDonough)$12,638$11,500
Notre Dame (Mendoza)$10,081$10,000
Washington U (Olin)$9,444$10,000
Indiana (Kelley)$12,068$10,500
Purdue (Krannert)$12,552$12,000
USC (Marshall)$12,388$10,000
Washington$13,327$10,831
Maryland (Smith)$11,261$10,000
Babson (Olin)$11,460$10,000
Vanderbilt$11,301$10,000