5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology &mdash Sloan

Location: Cambridge, Mass.

Average salary of alumni: $155,316

Salary increase post-MBA: 133 percent

Employed within three months: 95 percent

Prominent alumni: Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the United Nations; Benjamin Netanyahu, former Israeli prime minister; and Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard.

Website: mitsloan.mit.edu/mba