Of the 24 Master in Management programs we track in the UK, 4 publish a salary comparable across schools, and the median across those 4 is $78,921 (from $67,402 to $122,909). It is the Financial Times Masters in Management weighted salary — alumni pay reported roughly three years after graduation, adjusted for purchasing power and expressed in US dollars — not the salary a graduate starts on. For the starting number, the national data further down this page puts a first job at £33,900 (median earnings, year one).
Salary by school
Salary is the FT weighted figure measured about three years after graduation (USD, PPP-adjusted) — not a starting salary. A school not in the FT table shows its own reported figure in its own currency, which is why it is named separately above. Click any school for its full salary and career-outcomes breakdown.
Where graduates work
| Industry | Typical share |
|---|---|
| Consulting | 12–30% |
| Technology | 11–13% |
| Consulting or Finance | 59% |
| Financial Services | 34% |
| Finance | 28% |
| Consumer goods & retail | 10% |
| Manufacturing | 9% |
| Consultancy | at 1 of 24 schools |
Top recruiters across UK
Amazon · Deloitte · EY · Goldman Sachs · PwC · KPMG · Accenture · Bain & Company · Boston Consulting Group · Google · Microsoft · Morgan Stanley · UBS · AECOM · BNP Paribas
What the national data shows
Two official UK datasets sit behind any business school's placement numbers: the government's LEO release, which reads graduates' actual earnings from tax records, and HESA's Graduate Outcomes survey 15 months out. LEO breaks out Level 7 (master's) Business & management — the closest official match to a MiM.
UK salaries are gross/year, read from HMRC tax records (LEO), so they reflect real pay rather than survey self-reports. The UK publishes no permanent-contract figure for graduates. Horizons differ: LEO measures 1 year out, HESA 15 months.
Read the full breakdown: what a MiM pays in the UK →Working in the UK after your MiM
Master in Management graduates from a UK school can apply for the Graduate Route before their Student visa expires, then work for any employer — or none — for two years while moving toward a sponsored Skilled Worker visa. The route cannot be extended, but time on it gives you room to line up longer-term sponsorship.
Watch the timetable: the Graduate Route lasts two years for applications made up to 31 December 2026, but drops to 18 months for applications from 1 January 2027 — so a one-year MiM starting in September 2027 should plan around the 18-month window.
Tuition vs. salary
Tuition across these programs runs from £22,000 to £52,950, against a median FT weighted salary of $78,921 at the 4 programmes that publish one.
Tuition is shown in GBP and salary in US dollars (the FT's reporting currency), and the salary is measured about three years after graduation while the tuition is paid up front — so treat this as a rough orientation, not a precise return-on-investment ratio. Living costs, scholarships and exchange rates all move the real number.
Frequently asked questions
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Sources
- Graduate visa ↗ — GOV.UK
- LEO graduate and postgraduate outcomes, tax year 2022-23 ↗ — Department for Education
- Higher Education Graduate Outcomes Statistics 2022/23 (SB272) ↗ — HESA / Jisc
- Salary, employment and recruiter figures are drawn from each school's own reported outcomes — see the individual program pages linked above.