February 10, 2006

Study Examines Pay of M.B.A.'s

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Companies pay higher salaries to graduates of the most prominent business schools, even when they believe that lesser-known schools offer better educations, according to a study described in the December/January issue of the Academy of Management Journal.

The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business, found that those two variables do not always go hand in hand.

In their analysis of data from a poll of 1,600 professional

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