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THE MBA INSIDER
MBA Guidance · Rome Thorndike, Berkeley Haas MBA
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5,728
Live MBA roles
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$184K
Avg M7 pay
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150
Schools tracked
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Weekly admissions and outcomes intel · Week of 2026-08-03
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MBA news this week | | What is moving in admissions right now, via Poets&Quants. | |
Who’s hiring post-MBA right now | | Salaried, MBA-track roles posted in the latest scrape. Pay is the posted midpoint, a directional signal, not a guaranteed offer. | |
Pay watch, by function | | Median disclosed comp across all posted seniorities in each function this week. Treat as the shape of the market, not a starting-salary quote. |
| Consulting |
$117K
(1661 live)
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| Finance |
$155K
(294 live)
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| Product |
$161K
(1206 live)
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| Marketing |
$127K
(798 live)
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| Strategy/Ops |
$135K
(1769 live)
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The numbers, right now |
| Where the medians actually sit at the M7. Straight from our database, no rounding for the brochure. |
| School | GMAT | Accept | Avg pay | Placed |
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| Stanford GSB |
738 |
6.9% |
$192K |
95% |
| Harvard Business School |
740 |
11% |
$195K |
94% |
| Wharton |
733 |
18% |
$185K |
96% |
| Booth |
730 |
21% |
$180K |
95% |
| Kellogg |
727 |
20% |
$175K |
94% |
| Columbia Business School |
729 |
15% |
$180K |
93% |
| MIT Sloan |
730 |
12% |
$178K |
94% |
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School spotlight | | This week: Wharton. 733 median GMAT, 18% acceptance (the more reachable end of the top tier), $185K median starting pay, 96% employed within three months. Full profile. |
Deadline radar | | Each row shows that school’s most recently published round deadlines. Rows marked * are the prior (2025-26) cycle, shown for timing reference; we update each school the moment its 2026-2027 dates post. |
| School | Cycle | R1 | R2 | R3 |
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| Stanford GSB * |
2025-26 |
Sep 9, 2025 |
Jan 7, 2026 |
Apr 7, 2026 |
| Wharton |
2026-27 |
Sep 8, 2026 |
Jan 5, 2027 |
Mar 31, 2027 |
| Booth * |
2025-26 |
Sep 16, 2025 |
Jan 6, 2026 |
Apr 2, 2026 |
| Kellogg * |
2025-26 |
Sep 10, 2025 |
Jan 7, 2026 |
Apr 1, 2026 |
| Columbia Business School |
2026-27 |
Sep 9, 2026 |
Jan 5, 2027 |
Mar 29, 2027 |
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One honest take |
| Look at the pay-watch bars against the live counts next to them. Strategy, operations, and consulting post the most roles, but product, with far fewer openings, pays the most per seat. The best-paying post-MBA lanes are the narrow ones, not the wide ones. So if your plan is “get into a top program, then figure out recruiting,” you have the order backwards. Pick the lane first, then pick the school that actually feeds it. |
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