No. 1 YALE UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Students without job offers three months after graduation
in 2009: 8%
in 2007: 6%

Median starting salary
in 2009: $96,000
in 2007: $95,000

Yale grads emerged almost shockingly unscathed by the financial turmoil, hardly registering a blip in the placement rate. At the same time signing bonuses, actually increased from 2008 by 15 percentage points, with 76% of the students who found jobs also getting a bonus.

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