Rank School Location

1 Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL

2 Stanford Palo Alto, CA
3 Northwestern (Kellogg) Evanston, IL
4 Harvard Boston, MA
5 Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA
6 Dartmouth (Tuck) Hanover, NH
7 Columbia New York, NY
8 MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, MA
9 Cornell (Johnson) Ithaca, NY
10 Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
11 UC Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
12 Yale New Haven, CT
13 Virginia (Darden) Charlottesville, VA
14 Duke (Fuqua) Durham, NC
15 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) Chapel Hill, NC
16 UCLA (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA
17 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA
18 Texas-Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX
19 Indiana (Kelley) Bloomington, IN
20 NYU (Stern) New York, NY
21 USC (Marshall) Los Angeles, CA
22 Emory (Goizueta) Atlanta, GA
23 Washington (Foster) Seattle, WA
24 Brigham Young (Marriott) Provo, UT
25 Notre Dame (Mendoza) South Bend, IN
26 Rice (Jones) Houston, TX
27 Michigan State (Broad) East Lansing, MI
28 Georgia Tech (Scheller) Atlanta, GA
29 Washington U-St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO
30 Vanderbilt (Owen) Nashville, TN
31 Georgetown (McDonough) Washington, DC
32 Minnesota (Carlson) Minneapolis, MN
33 Texas A&M (Mays) College Station, TX
34 Penn State (Smeal) University Park, PA
35 Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI
36 Utah (Eccles) Salt Lake City, UT
37 Pittsburgh (Katz) Pittsburgh, PA
38 Arizona State (Carey) Tempe, AZ
39 Boston (Questrom) Boston, MA
40 Purdue (Krannert) West Lafayette, IN
41 Ohio State (Fisher) Columbus, OH
42 Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY
 43 UC Irvine (Merage) Irvine, CA
44 William & Mary (Mason) Williamsburg, VA
45 SMU (Cox) Dallas, TX
46 Texas-Dallas (Jindal) Dallas, TX
47 Maryland (Smith) College Park, MD
48 Georgia (Terry) Athens, GA
49 Buffalo Buffalo, NY
50 Alabama (Manderson) Tuscaloosa, AL
51 Rollins (Crummer) Winter Park, FL
52 Case Western (Weatherhead) Cleveland, OH
53 Missouri (Trulaske) Columbia, MO
54 Tennessee (Haslam) Knoxville, TN
55 Miami Coral Gables, FL
56 UC Davis Davis, CA
57 Willamette (Atkinson) Salem, OR
58 Fordham (Gabelli) New York, NY
59 Tulane (Freeman) New Orleans, LA
60 Colorado (Leeds) Boulder, CO
61 Pepperdine (Graziadio) Los Angeles, CA

SOURCE: https://www.forbes.com/business-schools/list/2/
5-Year MBA Gain Years to Payback Pre-MBA Salary (2013) 2018 Salary Tuition
$94.4 K 3.9 $83 K $245 K $149 K
$90.8 K 4.2 $86 K $250 K $144 K
$89.6 K 3.9 $76 K $215 K $150 K
$86.5 K 4.1 $88 K $230 K $161 K
$84.7 K 4.1 $92 K $230 K $158 K
$82.7 K 4 $84 K $233 K $153 K
$80.9 K 4.1 $82 K $230 K $160 K
$80.9 K 4.1 $80 K $215 K $154 K
$78.3 K 4 $68 K $195 K $142 K
$78 K 3.9 $72 K $180 K $140 K
$74.9 K 4.1 $88 K $205 K $126 K
$74.9 K 3.9 $68 K $198 K $146 K
$72.6 K 4 $70 K $185 K $142 K
$71.1 K 4 $70 K $184 K $144 K
$70.1 K 3.8 $65 K $161 K $131 K
$67.3 K 4 $73 K $190 K $131 K
$65.7 K 3.9 $70 K $185 K $134 K
$65.2 K 4.1 $68 K $184 K $109 K
$63.5 K 3.7 $55 K $145 K $104 K
$61 K 4.1 $71 K $190 K $153 K
$60.4 K 4 $64 K $165 K $133 K
$60.1 K 3.8 $58 K $145 K $132 K
$60 K 3.8 $70 K $165 K $100 K
$59.6 K 3.9 $58 K $145 K $53 K
$59.4 K 3.9 $58 K $151 K $112 K
$58.1 K 3.8 $60 K $153 K $125 K
$57.7 K 3.6 $49 K $125 K $103 K
$56.7 K 3.8 $59 K $143 K $42 K
$56.5 K 3.8 $55 K $125 K $119 K
$55.3 K 3.9 $64 K $160 K $117 K
$54.7 K 4.1 $64 K $170 K $119 K
$54.4 K 3.8 $62 K $143 K $104 K
$52.7 K 3.8 $59 K $142 K $77 K
$52.5 K 3.7 $50 K $130 K $88 K
$52.4 K 4 $65 K $155 K $84 K
$52.2 K 3.8 $48 K $125 K $60 K
$52.1 K 3.6 $40 K $115 K $67 K
$50.8 K 4.1 $50 K $125 K $97 K
$50.3 K 4.1 $55 K $134 K $111 K
$49.4 K 4.1 $47 K $127 K $85 K
$49.1 K 4.1 $55 K $137 K $107 K
$45.7 K 4 $46 K $126 K $94 K
$45.6 K 4.1 $50 K $130 K $107 K
$45.3 K 3.9 $44 K $120 K $93 K
$45.2 K 4.1 $58 K $142 K $106 K
$44.6 K 3.9 $43 K $123 K $62 K
$42.8 K 4.2 $47 K $138 K $110 K
$42.7 K 3.9 $48 K $108 K $69 K
$40.5 K 3.7 $25 K $86 K $57 K
$39 K 3.9 $30 K $93 K $66 K
$38.3 K 3.8 $27 K $84 K $75 K
$38.1 K 4 $46 K $117 K $83 K
$33.7 K 3.9 $33 K $85 K $68 K
$28.5 K 4.3 $41 K $112 K $63 K
$27.2 K 4.3 $40 K $116 K $100 K
$24.1 K 4.5 $50 K $120 K $114 K
$20.9 K 4.3 $27 K $85 K $86 K
$19.3 K 4.7 $50 K $141 K $103 K
$15.6 K 4.6 $54 K $120 K $117 K
$6.5 K 4.8 $47 K $100 K $63 K
$5.2 K 4.9 $45 K $105 K $101 K
GMAT Pre-MBA Salary (2013)
730 $ 83,000 677.0655738
732 $ 86,000
740 $ 76,000 727.4
730 $ 88,000
732 $ 92,000 711
720 $ 84,000
740 $ 82,000
730 $ 80,000
700 $ 68,000 $ 81,100
720 $ 72,000
730 $ 88,000
730 $ 68,000
720 $ 70,000
710 $ 70,000
700 $ 65,000
710 $ 73,000
700 $ 70,000
710 $ 68,000
680 $ 55,000
720 $ 71,000
710 $ 64,000
680 $ 58,000
710 $ 70,000
672 $ 58,000
680 $ 58,000
710 $ 60,000
690 $ 49,000
690 $ 59,000
700 $ 55,000
680 $ 64,000
700 $ 64,000
690 $ 62,000
640 $ 59,000
657 $ 50,000
680 $ 65,000
650 $ 48,000
640 $ 40,000
700 $ 50,000
690 $ 55,000
633 $ 47,000
685 $ 55,000
670 $ 46,000
680 $ 50,000
620 $ 44,000
650 $ 58,000
670 $ 43,000
635 $ 47,000
680 $ 48,000
595 $ 25,000
650 $ 30,000
550 $ 27,000
625 $ 46,000
620 $ 33,000
650 $ 41,000
640 $ 40,000
660 $ 50,000
545 $ 27,000
640 $ 50,000
640 $ 54,000
610 $ 47,000
600 $ 45,000
MBA Program
Stanford University >>
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) >>
University of Chicago (Booth) >>
Northwestern University (Kellogg) >>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) >>
Harvard University >>
University of California–Berkeley (Haas) >>
Columbia University >>
Yale University >>
New York University (Stern) >>
University of Virginia (Darden) >>
Duke University (Fuqua) >>
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)
Dartmouth College (Tuck)
Cornell University (Johnson) >>
University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) >>
University of Southern California (Marshall) >>
University of Texas—Austin (McCombs) >>
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) >>
University of Washington (Foster) >>
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) >>
Emory University (Goizueta) >>
Indiana University (Kelley) >>
Vanderbilt University (Owen) >>
Rice University (Jones)
Georgetown University (McDonough) >>
Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)
University of Florida (Warrington)
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Carlson)
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
Brigham Young University (Marriott)
University of Georgia (Terry)
University of Texas—Dallas
University of Rochester (Simon)
Arizona State University (W.P. Carey)
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Ohio State University (Fisher)
University of Pittsburgh (Katz)
Michigan State University (Broad)
Pennsylvania State University—University Park (Smeal)
University of Alabama (Manderson)
Southern Methodist University (Cox)
University of Maryland—College Park (Smith)
Texas A&M University—College Station (Mays)
University of Arizona (Eller)
University of Tennessee—Knoxville (Haslam)
University of California—Davis
University of Utah (Eccles)
Boston University (Questrom)
Boston College (Carroll)
North Carolina State University (Poole)
University of Massachusetts—Amherst (Isenberg)
George Washington University >>
Iowa State University (Ivy)
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark and New Brunswick
Auburn University (Harbert)
Baylor University (Hankamer)
Texas Christian University (Neeley)
University at Buffalo—SUNY
Northeastern University (School of Business)
CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College (Zicklin)
Temple University (Fox)
University of Missouri (Trulaske)
University of South Carolina (Moore)
William & Mary
University of California—Irvine (Merage)
University of Kansas
Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (Ourso)
Howard University
University of Colorado—Boulder (Leeds)
University of Miami
Babson College (Olin)
University of Connecticut
Chapman University (Argyros)
Tulane University (Freeman)
Syracuse University (Whitman)
Stevens Institute of Technology
University of Kentucky (Gatton)
Fordham University (Gabelli)
University of Denver (Daniels)
Purdue University—West Lafayette (Krannert)
Pepperdine University (Graziadio)
Clemson University
University of Louisville
University of Oklahoma (Price)
Florida State University
Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
University of California—San Diego (Rady)
Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders)
Clarkson University Reh
University of Mississippi
Oklahoma State University (Spears)
University of California—Riverside (Anderson)
University of Houston (Bauer)
University of Oregon (Lundquist)
College of Charleston Business School Overview
American University (Kogod)

Source: Accepted.com
US News Ranking 2021 Average GMAT Score Average Undergrad GPA Acceptance Rate
1 734 3.7 6.90%
1 732 3.61 23.10%
3 730 3.58 24.20%
3 730 3.64 27.00%
5 727 3.58 14.60%
6 728 3.7 11.50%
7 725 3.67 17.70%
8 732 3.6 16.40%
9 721 3.64 25.20%
10 721 3.52 26.10%
11 713 3.5 36.50%
12 705 3.5 22.90%
12 719 3.45 30.90%
12 723 3.52 34.50%
15 696 3.41 38.30%
16 717 3.5 30.50%
17 708 3.54 29.90%
18 704 3.42 38.10%
19 687 3.3 42.80%
20 695 3.39 36.00%
20 697 3.38 52.90%
22 684 3.23 49.70%
23 666 3.3 49.90%
23 678 3.32 60.10%
25 710 3.42 37.30%
25 694 3.31 60.40%
27 681 3.3 40.10%
28 691 3.59 17.30%
28 675 3.43 47.90%
30 695 3.5 43.40%
30 665 3.28 53.10%
30 675 3.55 59.20%
33 663 3.51 41.00%
33 675 3.4 40.60%
35 665 3.42 26.10%
35 680 3.53 31.10%
37 658 3.38 43.70%
37 679 3.45 51.70%
39 633 3.39 38.00%
40 674 3.34 58.70%
41 657 3.38 22.90%
41 652 3.67 62.50%
41 652 3.3 64.20%
44 643 3.29 38.30%
44 625 3.24 47.70%
46 659 3.52 20.80%
46 657 3.53 51.60%
48 667 3.41 43.10%
48 651 3.49 46.40%
48 683 3.43 49.60%
48 640 3.36 57.50%
52 608 3.5 53.80%
53 628 3.43 29.90%
53 616 3.21 40.10%
53 577 3.5 75.00%
56 664 3.26 33.60%
56 580 3.33 38.50%
56 617 3.43 52.70%
56 627 3.26 75.00%
60 599 3.39 66.30%
61 621 3.27 32.50%
62 610 3.21 41.80%
62 587 3.39 50.00%
62 621 3.59 64.10%
62 656 3.3 74.20%
62 629 3.2 74.50%
67 670 3.48 31.80%
68 590 3.32 73.40%
69 596 3.5 68.60%
70 511 3.16 41.90%
70 606 3.3 78.30%
72 631 3.3 51.10%
72 595 3.22 78.90%
74 615 3.41 50.70%
74 623 3.4 54.00%
74 608 3.2 66.70%
77 636 3.55 68.20%
77 594 3 71.00%
77 634 3.5 79.80%
80 657 3.23 47.60%
80 616 3.28 48.40%
80 631 3.43 59.40%
83 597 3.27 79.50%
83 550 3.3 81.70%
85 616 3.3 58.10%
85 604 3.31 73.00%
85 545 3.51 73.70%
88 637 3.1 67.90%
89 644 3.3 40.60%
89 531 3.33 68.80%
89 566 3.53 78.90%
92 552 3.38 35.00%
92 538 3.44 67.10%
95 607 3.3 61.80%
95 602 3.12 60.30%
95 599 3.37 73.90%
95 519 3.3 85.20%
99 618 3.08 56.90%
Selectivity Index GMAT Ranking GPA Ranking Weighted GPA & GMAT GPA Weight
100 1 1 1
80.4 2 7 3.25
78.3 4 11 5.75
76.7 4 5 4.25
87.9 7 11 8
94.3 6 1 4.75
86.6 8 3 6.75
87.1 2 8 3.5
77.6 10 5 8.75
74.2 10 19 12.25
62.7 14 24 16.5
75.2 17 24 18.75
67.8 12 34 17.5
65.9 9 19 11.5
57.9 20 45 26.25
69 13 24 15.75
69.5 16 15 15.75
58.9 18 42 24
51.3 25 67 35.5
59.6 21 50 28.25
43.9 19 54 27.75
44 26 87 41.25
43.5 38 67 45.25
35.5 31 63 39
60.2 15 42 21.75
36 23 65 33.5
53.2 28 67 37.75
81.1 24 9 20.25
47.7 32 37 33.25
54.5 21 24 21.75
40.5 39 80 49.25
38.7 32 13 27.25
54.3 42 22 37
53.9 32 48 36
66.5 39 42 39.75
65.4 29 16 25.75
49.5 44 54 46.5
44.7 30 34 31
52.6 58 50 56
36.8 35 60 41.25
67.7 45 54 47.25
35.5 49 3 37.5
30.5 49 67 53.5
51.6 53 79 59.5
41.9 64 86 69.5
72.7 43 19 37
44.4 45 16 37.75
51.2 37 45 39
48.2 51 32 46.25
46.7 27 37 29.5
36.1 54 59 55.25
38.9 75 24 62.25
59.7 62 37 55.75
46.8 70 90 75
20 90 24 73.5
56.8 41 84 51.75
47 89 61 82
39.6 69 37 61
20.2 63 84 68.25
27.1 81 50 73.25
54.2 66 82 70
45.1 74 90 78
39.4 88 50 78.5
31.7 66 9 51.75
22.1 48 67 52.75
20.3 61 92 68.75
62.9 36 33 35.25
20.6 87 63 81
25.9 84 24 69
37.1 98 94 97
17.2 78 67 75.25
40.3 59 67 61
16 85 89 86
40.9 73 45 66
38.5 65 48 60.75
25.6 75 92 79.25
28.4 56 13 45.25
20.4 86 98 89
17.7 57 24 48.75
44 45 87 55.5
41.2 70 80 72.5
34.8 59 37 53.5
15.8 83 82 82.75
13.1 93 67 86.5
33.7 70 67 69.25
21.3 79 65 75.5
19.9 94 22 76
25.1 55 96 65.25
49.9 52 67 55.75
21.8 96 61 87.25
16.7 91 16 72.25
48 92 54 82.5
24.1 95 36 80.25
30.3 77 67 74.5
29.5 80 95 83.75
20.8 81 58 75.25
10 97 67 89.5
32.4 68 97 75.25
25% GMAT Weight 75%

Travis Symon
1 2
3 1
School
Indiana (Kelley)
UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
Texas (McCombs)
Rice (Jones)
Dartmouth (Tuck)
Yale SOM
Georgetown (McDonough)
Cornell (Johnson)
Duke (Fuqua)
Virginia (Darden)
Washington (Foster)
Northwestern (Kellogg)
UC-Berkeley (Haas)
UCLA (Anderson)
Michigan (Ross)
Penn (Wharton)
Emory (Goizueta)
Harvard Business School
NYU (Stern)
MIT (Sloan)
Stanford GSB
Chicago (Booth)
USC (Marshall)
Columbia Business School

Source: Table: Poets&Quants Source: School-reported data

School
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
Columbia Business School
Cornell (Johnson)
Dartmouth (Tuck)
Duke (Fuqua)
Emory (Goizueta)
Georgetown (McDonough)
Harvard Business School
Indiana (Kelley)
MIT (Sloan)
NYU (Stern)
Northwestern (Kellogg)
Stanford GSB
UC-Berkeley (Haas)
UCLA (Anderson)
Chicago (Booth)
Michigan (Ross)
UNC (Kenan-Flagler)
Penn (Wharton)
USC (Marshall)
Rice (Jones)
Texas (McCombs)
Virginia (Darden)
Washington (Foster)
Vanderbilt University Owen School of Management
Washington University Olin School of Business
Yale SOM

Source: Poets&Quants analysis of business school data

Year-Over-Year Change In MBA Apps (%)
-31.50%
-24.70%
-21.10%
-6.60%
6.50%
-22.50%
-15.60%
-6.90%
-4.10%
-14.60%
-3.90%
-10.50%
-15.50%
-9.70%
-17.70%
-6.20%
-5.40%
-24.20%
-6.70%
-7.00%
-6.50%
-5.80%
3.40%
-5.90%
-2.50%

Class Size
205
743
293
281
440
178
270
935
186
406
344
691
410
241
354
583
447
281
859
214
118
270
324
105
169
139
323
Year-Over-Year Change In MBA Apps 2018-2019 Apps
-341 741
-435 1,323
-349 1,307
-137 1,941
38 625
-589 2,032
-591 3,194
-101 1,358
-65 1,535
-521 3,036
-89 2,190
-98 836
-692 3,779
-371 3,540
-606 2,817
-198 2,990
-340 5,905
-326 1,022
-658 9,228
-263 3,518
-360 5,200
-455 7,342
144 4,433
-118 1,899
-153 5,876
2017-2018 Apps 2016-2017 Apps 3-Year Trend Class Size
1,082 1,247 -40.60% 186
1,758 2,151 -38.50% 281
1,656 1,833 -28.70% 205
2,078 2,586 -24.90% 270
587 813 -23.10% 118
2,621 2,610 -22.10% 281
3,785 4,098 -22.10% 323
1,459 1,742 -22.00% 270
1,600 1,960 -21.70% 293
3,557 3,796 -20.00% 440
2,279 2,736 -20.00% 324
934 1,038 -19.50% 105
4,471 4,595 -17.80% 691
3,821 4,132 -16.50% 241
3,423 3,314 -15.00% 354
3,188 3,485 -14.20% 447
6,245 6,692 -11.80% 859
1,348 1,146 -10.80% 178
9,886 10,351 -10.80% 935
3,781 3,927 -10.40% 344
5,560 5,798 -10.30% 406
7,797 8,173 -10.20% 410
4,289 4,677 -5.20% 583
2,017 1,998 -5.00% 214
6,029 6,008 -2.20% 743
 Current Salary

Tuition

Opportunity Cost