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
#7 MIT (Sloan) Cambridge, MA
#9 Cornell (Johnson) Ithaca, NY
#10 Michigan (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI
#11 UC Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA
#11 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
730
732
740
730
732
720
740
730
700
720
730
730
720
710
700
710
700
710
680
720
710
680
710
672
680
710
690
690
700
680
700
690
640
657
680
650
640
700
690
633
685
670
680
620
650
670
635
680
595
650
550
625
620
650
640
660
545
640
640
610
600
MBA Program
Stanford University >>
Harvard University >>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) >>
Columbia University >>
University of California–Berkeley (Haas) >>
University of Florida (Warrington)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) >>
University of Chicago (Booth) >>
Yale University >>
Northwestern University (Kellogg) >>
Duke University (Fuqua) >>
New York University (Stern) >>
University of Arizona (Eller)
University of Southern California (Marshall) >>
University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) >>
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross)
Pennsylvania State University—University Park (Smeal)
University of Rochester (Simon)
Dartmouth College (Tuck)
Arizona State University (W.P. Carey)
University of California—Irvine (Merage)
University of Virginia (Darden) >>
Rice University (Jones)
University of Massachusetts—Amherst (Isenberg)
University of Washington (Foster) >>
University of Texas—Austin (McCombs) >>
Cornell University (Johnson) >>
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark and New Brunswick
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin)
University of Georgia (Terry)
Northeastern University (School of Business)
University of Texas—Dallas
Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)
University of Pittsburgh (Katz)
University of Maryland—College Park (Smith)
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) >>
University of California—Davis
University of California—San Diego (Rady)
University of Wisconsin—Madison
University of Utah (Eccles)
University of Mississippi
University of Minnesota—Twin Cities (Carlson)
Auburn University (Harbert)
George Washington University >>
Boston University (Questrom)
CUNY Bernard M. Baruch College (Zicklin)
Ohio State University (Fisher)
University of Tennessee—Knoxville (Haslam)
Emory University (Goizueta) >>
Fordham University (Gabelli)
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) >>
Indiana University (Kelley) >>
Texas A&M University—College Station (Mays)
University of Denver (Daniels)
University of Connecticut
University of Notre Dame (Mendoza)
University of Miami
Baylor University (Hankamer)
Temple University (Fox)
North Carolina State University (Poole)
Brigham Young University (Marriott)
Chapman University (Argyros)
Howard University
Michigan State University (Broad)
Boston College (Carroll)
Georgetown University (McDonough) >>
University of Alabama (Manderson)
Vanderbilt University (Owen) >>
Purdue University—West Lafayette (Krannert)
University of Louisville
American University (Kogod)
University of Missouri (Trulaske)
Southern Methodist University (Cox)
University of California—Riverside (Anderson)
University of Houston (Bauer)
Syracuse University (Whitman)
University at Buffalo—SUNY
Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (Ourso)
Tulane University (Freeman)
Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead)
Oklahoma State University (Spears)
University of South Carolina (Moore)
Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders)
University of Oklahoma (Price)
University of Oregon (Lundquist)
University of Kansas
Stevens Institute of Technology
William & Mary
Texas Christian University (Neeley)
Iowa State University (Ivy)
Florida State University
University of Kentucky (Gatton)
University of Colorado—Boulder (Leeds)
Clarkson University Reh
Babson College (Olin)
Pepperdine University (Graziadio)
Clemson University
College of Charleston Business School Overview

Source: Accepted.com
US News Ranking 2021 Average GMAT Score Average Undergrad GPA Acceptance Rate
1 734 3.7 6.90%
6 728 3.7 11.50%
5 727 3.58 14.60%
8 732 3.6 16.40%
7 725 3.67 17.70%
28 691 3.59 17.30%
1 732 3.61 23.10%
3 730 3.58 24.20%
9 721 3.64 25.20%
3 730 3.64 27.00%
12 705 3.5 22.90%
10 721 3.52 26.10%
46 659 3.52 20.80%
17 708 3.54 29.90%
16 717 3.5 30.50%
12 719 3.45 30.90%
41 657 3.38 22.90%
35 665 3.42 26.10%
12 723 3.52 34.50%
35 680 3.53 31.10%
67 670 3.48 31.80%
11 713 3.5 36.50%
25 710 3.42 37.30%
53 628 3.43 29.90%
20 695 3.39 36.00%
18 704 3.42 38.10%
15 696 3.41 38.30%
56 664 3.26 33.60%
30 695 3.5 43.40%
33 663 3.51 41.00%
61 621 3.27 32.50%
33 675 3.4 40.60%
27 681 3.3 40.10%
39 633 3.39 38.00%
44 643 3.29 38.30%
19 687 3.3 42.80%
48 667 3.41 43.10%
89 644 3.3 40.60%
37 658 3.38 43.70%
48 651 3.49 46.40%
92 552 3.38 35.00%
28 675 3.43 47.90%
56 580 3.33 38.50%
53 616 3.21 40.10%
48 683 3.43 49.60%
62 610 3.21 41.80%
37 679 3.45 51.70%
46 657 3.53 51.60%
22 684 3.23 49.70%
80 657 3.23 47.60%
20 697 3.38 52.90%
23 666 3.3 49.90%
44 625 3.24 47.70%
80 616 3.28 48.40%
74 615 3.41 50.70%
30 665 3.28 53.10%
72 631 3.3 51.10%
56 617 3.43 52.70%
62 587 3.39 50.00%
52 608 3.5 53.80%
30 675 3.55 59.20%
74 623 3.4 54.00%
70 511 3.16 41.90%
40 674 3.34 58.70%
48 640 3.36 57.50%
25 694 3.31 60.40%
41 652 3.67 62.50%
23 678 3.32 60.10%
80 631 3.43 59.40%
85 616 3.3 58.10%
99 618 3.08 56.90%
62 621 3.59 64.10%
41 652 3.3 64.20%
95 607 3.3 61.80%
95 602 3.12 60.30%
77 636 3.55 68.20%
60 599 3.39 66.30%
69 596 3.5 68.60%
74 608 3.2 66.70%
88 637 3.1 67.90%
92 538 3.44 67.10%
62 656 3.3 74.20%
89 531 3.33 68.80%
85 604 3.31 73.00%
95 599 3.37 73.90%
68 590 3.32 73.40%
77 594 3 71.00%
62 629 3.2 74.50%
56 627 3.26 75.00%
53 577 3.5 75.00%
85 545 3.51 73.70%
77 634 3.5 79.80%
70 606 3.3 78.30%
89 566 3.53 78.90%
72 595 3.22 78.90%
83 597 3.27 79.50%
83 550 3.3 81.70%
95 519 3.3 85.20%
Selectivity Index
100
94.3
87.9
87.1
86.6
81.1
80.4
78.3
77.6
76.7
75.2
74.2
72.7
69.5
69
67.8
67.7
66.5
65.9
65.4
62.9
62.7
60.2
59.7
59.6
58.9
57.9
56.8
54.5
54.3
54.2
53.9
53.2
52.6
51.6
51.3
51.2
49.9
49.5
48.2
48
47.7
 47
46.8
46.7
45.1
44.7
44.4
44
44
43.9
43.5
41.9
41.2
40.9
40.5
40.3
39.6
39.4
38.9
38.7
38.5
37.1
36.8
36.1
36
35.5
35.5
34.8
33.7
32.4
31.7
30.5
30.3
29.5
28.4
27.1
25.9
25.6
25.1
24.1
22.1
21.8
21.3
20.8
20.6
20.4
20.3
20.2
20
19.9
17.7
17.2
16.7
16
15.8
13.1
10
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