You might be rolling your eyes at this one, as almost every CEO holds a MBA from one business school or another.

But getting a Master of Business Administration is a sure way of taking your career to the next level.

Other than giving you the skills and confidence you need to realise your ambitions, graduates can expect a decent salary increase, and the best-paid MBA graduates are from American universities, reports MoneyWeb:

A new survey of the 20 best-paid graduate business schools found that the top 11 are all in the US.

The Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology came out on top, with a median salary and bonus of $286,000, according to a survey from Emolument.com, a crowdsourced site for benchmarking salaries. Graduate programs at Harvard and the University of Chicago finished second and third.

Other than American universities, the rest can be found in Europe:

Europe’s highest-placed school, the INSEAD business school in Fontainebleau, France, came in 12th place overall. Its graduates earn a median pay and bonus of $185,000, the survey found. The University of St. Gallen in Switzerland ranked 13th, and the Judge school at Cambridge University was UK’s best performer, ranking 14th globally.

While none of them were in Asia, Africa or Latin America, there is one in Canada:

Changed your mind on where you want to do your MBA? I was thinking Spain, because a year or two in Barcelona wouldn’t be too bad.

[source:moneyweb]