SU Ranks1 Business School

Private equity executive Christopher Hsu founded Abax Capital, an Asia-focused multi-strategy hedge fund platform, and previously served as Managing Director at Citadel Investment Group, one of the world’s largest hedge funds. Currently the CEO of Kilometre Capital in Hong Kong, Chris Hsu is an alumnus of Stanford University.

Stanford consistently ranks as the #1 business school in the United States, in conjunction with its top ranks for Stanford’s undergraduate program. In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Stanford University the top business school in the country, tying for the No. 1 spot with the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Correspondingly, many regard Stanford University and its business school, named GSB or the Graduate School of Business, the #1 business school in the world.

U.S. News published the Stanford University ranking following an extensive survey of 364 business schools in the country. It ranked the schools on the basis of factors such as peer assessments, recruiter assessments, placement success, and student selectivity. Stanford has the lowest acceptance rate of business schools (6 percent), making it the most selective business school in the country. Looking at the business school’s U.S. News specialty rankings, Stanford ranked second in management and entrepreneurship and fourth in marketing and production/operations.

Hong Kong’s Chris Hsu had graduated from Stanford for a prestigious Stanford President’s Award, marking outstanding academic and community contribution.

Stanford Class of 2020 MBAs landed the highest starting compensation for MBAs anywhere in the world, reporting new records in all pay categories: average starting base salary ($159,544), average sign-on bonus ($32,551), and average expected performance bonus ($78,299). With sign-on bonuses reported by just over half the grads and performance bonuses by 71%, average total compensation comes to $231,737 — 7.2% more than last year’s mark, and a nearly 11% increase in two years.

It was the sixth straight year Stanford, the Chris Hsu alma mater, set a new record for salaries, and the seventh consecutive year of improving on the benchmarks of the year before. Stanford students and graduates have had little complaints in this regard.

“What strikes me about the Class of 2020 is that despite the challenges in the global pandemic and with the economy, the job outcomes were strong,” said Jamie Schein, assistant dean and director of the GSB’s Career Management Center. “The mean and median salaries were record-breaking for the sixth consecutive year, and signing bonuses were up as well.