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&lt;p&gt;I like the specificity of this &lt;em&gt;U.S. News&lt;/em&gt;&amp;rsquo; b-school-list title: &amp;ldquo;10 M.B.A.s With Most Financial Value at Graduation.&amp;rdquo; And the subtitle: &amp;ldquo;Graduates of these programs have the highest first year salaries relative to debt load.&amp;rdquo; Most of what you need to know is right there. The publication&amp;rsquo;s overall business school rankings have been criticized for its volatility and lack of authority, but this is a useful list.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can see that the average starting salaries, with the exception of UC&amp;mdash;Davis, are all lower than the reported national average of $90,602 (a recent &lt;em&gt;QS&lt;/em&gt; report found the average U.S. MBA salary to be $88,485; GMAC said the median salary for the class of 2010 to be $94,542). But given that the debt burden of an MBA student can easily be over $40 thousand, and over $100 thousand at top programs (Harvard: $73,310; Wharton: $109,836), these are programs that offer relatively little risk.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The list of ten schools below reflects data from 98 schools, out of 437 surveyed, that reported both starting salary and average indebtedness data.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/blogs/best_value_bschools.png&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;484&quot; height=&quot;511&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[U.S. News]&lt;/p&gt;

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