<p>Of course there is something wrong with this study. They are based entirely on a tiny fraction of the entire alumni base. In other words, they are not at all accurate. To a certain degree, I suppose you can look at starting salaries, but even then, without taking cost of living adjustment into account, the results are very hard to interpret. According to the most recent stats released by undergraduate business programs, below are the top earning schools (median starting salaries):</p>
<ol>
<li>Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) $70,000</li>
<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) $70,000</li>
<li>University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) $70,000</li>
<li>University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Ross) $65,000</li>
<li>Georgetown University (McDonough) $63,000</li>
<li>New York University (Stern) $63,000</li>
<li>Worcester Polytechnic Institute $63,000</li>
<li>Washington University-St Louis (Olin) $62,000</li>
<li>Boston College (Carroll) $60,000</li>
<li>Cornell University (Dyson) $60,000</li>
<li>Emory University (Goizueta) $60,000</li>
<li>University of California-Berkeley (Haas) $60,000</li>
<li>University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (Kenan Flagler) $60,000</li>
<li>University of Virginia (McIntire) $60,000</li>
</ol>
<p>Notre Dame (Mendoza) has a starting median salary of $57,000.</p>
<p>As far as Michigan’s CoE, I did not have a chance to look at the figures lately, but last time I checked (2011), it was among the top 10 in every single speciality. </p>
<p>Beyond starting salaries, it is pointless to look at those salary reports. Do you honestly think that more than a dozen alums (out of hundreds of thousands) will accurately list they annual earnings?</p>