3. Stanford Graduate School of Business

Location: Stanford, Calif.

Average salary of alumni: $175,766

Salary increase post-MBA: 119 percent

Employed within three months: 94 percent

Prominent alumni: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke; Charles Schwab, CEO of Charles Schwab Corp.; and Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, though he dropped out.

Website: www.gsb.stanford.edu