Forbes
The Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) was the only Australian business school to appear on Forbes’ 2013 list of Best International Business Schools outside of the United States.
The Forbes ranking is undertaken every two years and measures the financial return on investment gained by completing an MBA. Forbes magazine sent surveys to 17,000 MBA graduates from 2008 and arrived at the ranking by comparing their earnings in their first five years out of business school to their opportunity cost (two years of forgone compensation, tuition and required fees). The schools are then ranked according to their t “5-year M.B.A. gain”.
AGSM was 24th on the list with a total 5-Year MBA Gain of $US24,700. AGSM students had an average pre-MBA salary of $US56,000 and an average 2012 salary of $US163,000.The AGSM MBA costs $72,512.