<p>i know this question has been asked numerous times but what business major can get you highest salary, right after you get bachelors? I'm not talking about 5 years later or 10 years later. I asking right after a person gets his bachelors which major can get highest pay????</p>
<p>Salary depends more on the school you graduated from.
But as for your question, Consulting and I-Banking are among the most well paid job in the field of Business (and Economics). The starting salary may be as high as 70, 80k if you've graduated from a top university. Finance is a high earner, along with Accounting and Economics.</p>
<p>what are considered "top" universities.. top 20?</p>
<p>If you're going into finance for higer salaries, **** off! You won't make it if that's what you're doing it for...</p>
<p>90% of people go into finance for salary possibility Dan ..... not too many people dream their whole life of working in finance</p>
<p>Well me too, but I just want to make the conpetition a "little" smaller. lol</p>
<p>Well me too, but I just want to make the competition a "little" smaller. lol</p>
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<p>more like 150k including bonus, 65-70k base</p>
<p>^^^^ if u went to wharton.</p>
<p>atleast I think thats the way it works</p>
<p>school does not determine salary, company and position does.</p>
<p>ns347 it depends on the job not the graduate, it is just that graduates of schools like wharton are more likely to fill the top positions that get the highest salary. you can get the good job @ 150k out of undergrad if ur not from wharton, just takes more work</p>
<p>School plays a large part in salary upon undergrad completion recruitment. Top schools include top companies that recruit at these schools. So for the most part, going to a top school is a bigger chance of landing a top salary as compared to a middle/bottom tier school.</p>
<p>so in essence, you are still saying school doesnt determine salary, company does</p>
<p>Southpasadena: School can only do so much for you. HYSP attracts firms from around the world. Going to a school that has strong brand value will also correlate with the amount of recruitment for its students. Just because of the very fact that Harvard is synonomous with excellence is enough reason for some firms to go to Harvard to recruit and compete with higher salaries. A 4.0 GPA at some state school may in fact be very good but if the school makes little effort to say "Hey JP Morgan Chase, Hey Boeing, Hey Lockheed Martin, Hey Microsoft, come offer my students jobs." Then you won't make much upon graduation. Notice that I used the term "upon graduation." 10 years down the line, the 4.0 kid from a bottom rung college could very well perform better. Because, afterall, we all study out of the same "kinds" of books. Business is rehashed over and over. Very little NEW material is made up.</p>
<p>you really dont seem to understand do you? School may determine recruitment, but recruitment in no way determines the salary when offered a job at that company. If a kid from cal state gets the same job as a kid from harvard with the same company with comparative negotiating skills and end of the year review, then their salaries will technically be the same, will they not? You seem to be misunderstanding this concept. If i got hired at a big 4 doing tax, they are not going to pay a premium for the harvard grad over me, premium will be determined rather by the col of the area</p>
<p>this all is very general but it is the norm, obviously school can determine pay when including start up business, etc</p>
<p>and these links are for?</p>
<p>Southpasadena: I understand your point. But upon comparing career centers at HYPS and general 2nd tier schools. There's absolutely no doubt in my mind the reasoning why school actually does help determine the "average" salary compensation. Some students here and there will get breaks and intern with large companies prior to graduation and those students may have strong recs. Therefore, earning an equivalent salary. But when you actually go into career centers at HYPS, you'll definitely see 10 times more analyst/associate postings than any 2nd tier school. Compensation for many of these jobs range from 40-70k base with nearly 50k per year in bonus and even 5-15k signing bonuses.</p>
<p>Companies such as JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch etc. The first place they go is HYPS to recruit for all the high paying positions. HYPS schools are generally known as "target" schools. Its the target for all the large corporations that have high paying jobs.</p>
<p>Your argument is very logical. But I must fill you in on what actually goes on in the business world. I have done my research and weighed the job opportunities. You'll get a comparable education at a state school but HYPS have worked their tails off to build up a brand. A brand of excellence.</p>
<p>We are not talking about the marketability of a prestigious degree, thats what you do not understand, you are arguing about one thing, i another. Look back at the original post that started these comparisons, you have gone off tangent. The poster believed only a student at Wharton would receive such a salary (150K) in ibanking. Rather i and MK noted that a student hired, school withheld, would have the same pay regardless because the jobs will be the same. Getting a job from school, recruitment has nothing to do with the original problem that developed into what we are bickering about now. Go back and read</p>