4. Harvard Business School
Location: Boston, Mass.
Average salary of alumni: $163,493
Salary increase post-MBA: 112 percent
Employed within three months: 94 percent
Prominent alumni: President George W. Bush; Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson Jr.; and Abigail Johnson of Fidelity Investments.
Website: www.hbs.edu
(The Financial Times ranks the top US business schools)


