I just read an MBA jobs trends report, and found some salary information that might be useful for those looking at schools in Asia. Here is the breakdown of average salaries of MBA grads working in Asia for multinational companies broken down by country (in US$):

China: $59,700
Hong Kong: $87,500
Japan: $92,000
Malaysia: $75,500
Thailand: $42,500
Vietnam: $48,000

Not much is really surprising, except for that fact that salaries in Malaysia are generally higher than China. That makes University of Malaya, the only internationally-accredited university in the country, look very good.

Of course, salaries in Hong Kong are high but the city is notoriously expensive. If I was looking at Hong Kong, I'd check out HKU, CUHK, HKUST, etc. No shortage of great , accredited schools there.

Japan is harder. It's generally pretty expensive there and there isn't as much of a b-school scene as in Hong Kong. Keio Business School and Temple come to mind as good places to go in Japan.

I just read an MBA jobs trends report, and found some salary information that might be useful for those looking at schools in Asia. Here is the breakdown of average salaries of MBA grads working in Asia for multinational companies broken down by country (in US$):

China: $59,700
Hong Kong: $87,500
Japan: $92,000
Malaysia: $75,500
Thailand: $42,500
Vietnam: $48,000

Not much is really surprising, except for that fact that salaries in Malaysia are generally higher than China. That makes University of Malaya, the only internationally-accredited university in the country, look very good.

Of course, salaries in Hong Kong are high but the city is notoriously expensive. If I was looking at Hong Kong, I'd check out HKU, CUHK, HKUST, etc. No shortage of great , accredited schools there.

Japan is harder. It's generally pretty expensive there and there isn't as much of a b-school scene as in Hong Kong. Keio Business School and Temple come to mind as good places to go in Japan.

Perhaps the best paid MBAs in Malaysia studied elsewhere?

is malaysian economy is so good that they can afford MBA grad. at high salaries.
mostly in which field.... they hire MBA grad.

1) Japan: $92,000
2)Hong Kong: $87,500
3)Malaysia: $75,500
4)China: $59,700


I would have expected Singapore in third position.. (And the 75500$ would make sense there)

Singapore will be above Malaysia. Perhaps it is not in that article?

The major multinationals hiring MBAs in Malaysia are in technology, energy, finance and consulting: especially Intel, Dell, HP IBM, Accenture, Shell, Standard Chartered and Frost & Sullivan. Ericsson and Citi hire fewer MBAs, but at a more senior level.

They have very often studied at international universities with presence in Singapore: University of South Australia; University of Southern Queensland; Manchester Business School; Charles Sturt University and the University of Strathclyde. Generally, the senior people have all studied at Australian or UK universities (Imperial and also Nottingham stands out: it has a large campus in Malaysia), or at INSEAD.

The three big Malaysian MBA recruiters (Telekom, Mazis and Petronas) recruit mostly from local universities, especially Multimedia University, Universiti Utara Malaysia and Universiti Putra Malaysia, but Strathclyde, RMIT and Melbourne also feed in there.

Singapore will be above Malaysia. Perhaps it is not in that article?

Considering the low cost of living in Malaysia, that is a nice salary.

Indeed - in Kuala Lumpur you can find apartments for a fraction of the cost of similar ones in Singapore - along the lines of what you'd see in a city like Berlin. I think Penang in the northwest is where the growth is at - a lot of big tech firms like Motorola, Dell and Seagate have plants or other infrastructure there.

Indeed - in Kuala Lumpur you can find apartments for a fraction of the cost of similar ones in Singapore - along the lines of what you'd see in a city like Berlin.

sir you had been taking about salary in asian countries. What are your views about india?

thank you Duncan for your reply

Do you have a more specific question in mind? I'm sure you are not actually asking what I think of India.

sir i wanted to ask about salary in india??

What is your question about salaries in India?

Take a look at https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=average+MBA+salary+India&aq=f&sugexp=chrome,mod=10&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The major multinationals hiring MBAs in Malaysia are in technology, energy, finance and consulting: especially Intel, Dell, HP IBM, Accenture, Shell, Standard Chartered and Frost & Sullivan. Ericsson and Citi hire fewer MBAs, but at a more senior level.

They have very often studied at international universities with presence in Singapore: University of South Australia; University of Southern Queensland; Manchester Business School; Charles Sturt University and the University of Strathclyde. Generally, the senior people have all studied at Australian or UK universities (Imperial and also Nottingham stands out: it has a large campus in Malaysia), or at INSEAD.

The three big Malaysian MBA recruiters (Telekom, Mazis and Petronas) recruit mostly from local universities, especially Multimedia University, Universiti Utara Malaysia and Universiti Putra Malaysia, but Strathclyde, RMIT and Melbourne also feed in there.

Take a look at: How to use LinkedIn to find the best school www.find-mba.com/board/33571

Something's really off on the Malaysia figures here that were posted 10 years ago. 

Malaysia's #1 MBA program is ASB (an affiliate of MIT), so that should represent the top end of Malaysian MBA salaries. 

ASB's median MBA salary in adjusted PPP $ according to ASB's career report is $113,899.  But that's PPP, which takes into account the local country's average expenditure basket of goods.  An MBA will have a different type of consumption (new cars, higher end housing, etc).  The actual US$ salary of ASB (adjusted back from PPP) is roughly $43,000.  That's a good salary in Malaysia, but that represents the top end.  The average is likely much lower.  So I can't believe an MBA averages US$75.5K in Malaysia back in 2011.  Just too hard to believe.  It's possible the average stated by ezra is PPP adjusted and not real dollars. 

[Edited by MKennedy on Dec 29, 2021]

Ezra cited the report's description of the average salaries of MBAs in multinationals, not those of all MBAs. See table 21 at https://content.qs.com/pr/TopMBA.com_Jobs_&_Salary_Report_2011-12.pdf and perhaps read the methodology and sample employers. 

Malaysia's #1 MBA program is ASB (an affiliate of MIT),

If you think that brand-new business schools normally fill their campuses after a few years, you should reset your expectations. Most new business schools don't even have campuses! Oxford's business school was in a hospital corridor. and either EDHEC or ESSEC started in part of a Singapore library. These schools take years to build. The founding deans take on a perilous job and are often people at the end of their careers: certainly that was the case with the deans who set up ESMT and HHL. 

Indeed, the idea that the MISCI failed is a bit weird. It was founded in 2011, and it's now a full university. The students have excellent salary growth. The partnership with MIT is still running. If that's failure, then I wonder what success would look like?  

PS UM certainly graduates more MBA students, but I don't think there's any data to suggest that its average salaries and cohort quality come close to ASB. 

[Edited by Duncan on Mar 09, 2023]