A cohort of fifty-two produces one of the two highest weighted three-year salaries in the FT 2025 Masters in Management table — US $139,921, behind only HEC Paris, with 98% of the class employed within three months. Consulting is the dominant destination at roughly 42% of first roles (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Accenture, Roland Berger), ahead of financial services at 22% (UBS, the Swiss private banks, European investment banks), technology at 12%, industrials at 10% and consumer and retail at 8%. Placement concentrates in the German-speaking economies — Switzerland, Germany and Austria absorb about 60% of the class — helped by Switzerland's relatively friendly post-study work rules for non-EU graduates of Swiss universities. Our guide to who recruits European MiM graduates sets that pipeline against the rest of the field.
Graduates of the University of St. Gallen MiM report $140k on the Financial Times' weighted measure — pay about three years after graduation, not a starting salary. The employment rate within three months of graduation is 98%.
That places it #2 of 51 programs we track on graduate salary, above the cohort median.
Compare this against every Master in Management in Switzerland on our MiM salary & careers in Switzerland guide.
Top industries
| Consulting | 42% |
|---|---|
| Financial Services | 22% |
| Technology | 12% |
| Industrials | 10% |
| Consumer & Retail | 8% |
Top recruiters
McKinsey & Company · Boston Consulting Group · Bain & Company · Accenture · Roland Berger · UBS · Adidas · Amazon · Microsoft · Nestlé
Frequently asked questions
What does the FT number-one ranking actually measure?
Where do SIM-HSG graduates work?
Sources
- University of St. Gallen — SIM-HSG program overview ↗ — University of St. Gallen
- St. Gallen SIM — Admission. Re-read 2026-09-03 (browser user agent): the SIM Admission Committee runs four admission rounds between October and April — applications by 4 Nov 2026 / 31 Jan / 31 Mar / 30 Apr 2027, decisions by 8 Dec 2026 / 28 Feb / 30 Apr / 31 May 2027 — described as a "selection process for all applicants", with NO nationality-specific deadline anywhere on the page (the strings "non-EU", "EU/EEA" and "nationality" do not appear). Selection weighting published: GMAT or GRE 20%, undergraduate average 20%, extracurriculars and work experience 25%, SIM video interview 35%. The video interview is compulsory ("your application will only be processed once we have received your video interview"). Application fee CHF 250; application period 1 Oct – 30 Apr; alternative programme (MiMM, MGM, MACFin) may be named only if you apply before 31 January. The word "essay" does not appear on this page ↗ — University of St. Gallen
- St. Gallen — university-wide application deadlines. Re-read 2026-09-03: this page publishes NO rounds. It is a per-programme table of application WINDOWS, in which SIM reads "1 Oct - 30 Apr" for the autumn semester while MBI, MiMM, MGM, MACFin and MEcon read "1 Oct - 31 Mar". The four dated SIM rounds come from the SIM admission page above, not from here — this profile's earlier label attributed them to this page ↗ — University of St. Gallen
- St. Gallen — Registration & tuition fees (international Master rate CHF 3,557.50/semester from autumn 2026; CHF 10,673 over three billable semesters) ↗ — University of St. Gallen
- St. Gallen — Cantonal Council ~7% tuition increase (first since 2014); IN FORCE since 1 Aug 2026 — foreign Master rate CHF 3,557.50/semester, up from CHF 3,329 ↗ — University of St. Gallen
- swissuniversities — Tuition fees at universities (HSG foreign Master CHF 3,100 tuition + CHF 229 fees per semester, pre-increase basis) ↗ — swissuniversities
- St. Gallen — SIM double degrees ↗ — University of St. Gallen
- CEMS — University of St. Gallen (founding member) ↗ — CEMS
- Financial Times — Masters in Management 2025 ↗ — Financial Times
- St. Gallen — SIM Essay Question and Guidelines (PDF, 2 pages, sha256:cb98017143d6150a, read 2026-09-03). The most recent edition HSG publishes is headed "September 2025 Intake": an original essay is required as part of the application documents, 600–800 words in English excluding cover page and bibliography, mandatory separate cover page, Word or PDF only, numbered pages; all essays are checked by plagiarism software and "use of artificial intelligence" without indication of source counts as plagiarism and leads to rejection of the application ↗ — University of St. Gallen