School AdmitRank Composite US News FT BBW QS Accept % GMAT Salary
GSB MBA Stanford University · Stanford, CA 2.0 #1 #2 #1 #4 6.1% 738 $197k
Wharton MBA University of Pennsylvania · Philadelphia, PA 2.3 #2 #3 #2 #2 19.2% 733 $248k
Booth MBA University of Chicago · Chicago, IL 5.0 #3 #5 #7 #5 20.4% 730 $190k
HBS MBA Harvard University · Boston, MA 4.3 #4 #4 #4 #5 11.0% 740 $260k
Kellogg MBA Northwestern University · Evanston, IL 7.0 #4 #10 #6 #8 20.2% 727 $185k
Sloan MBA Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Cambridge, MA 3.3 #6 #1 #3 #3 13.6% 730 $246k
Columbia MBA Columbia University · New York, NY 7.0 #7 #5 #9 #7 16.5% 729 $190k
Stern MBA New York University · New York, NY 12.3 #7 #15 #14 #13 23.0% 720 $180k
Tuck MBA Dartmouth College · Hanover, NH 12.3 #9 #16 #10 #14 21.5% 724 $182k
Haas MBA University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley, CA 10.0 #10 #12 #8 #10 15.0% 726 $185k
Darden MBA University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA 14.5 #11 #20 #9 #18 24.0% 718 $178k
SOM MBA Yale University · New Haven, CT 10.8 #11 #11 #12 #9 17.4% 724 $178k
Ross MBA University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI 16.0 #13 #22 #13 #16 22.1% 720 $175k
Fuqua MBA Duke University · Durham, NC 15.5 #14 #18 #11 #19 22.5% 719 $175k
Johnson MBA Cornell University · Ithaca, NY 20.5 #15 #27 #18 #22 27.0% 710 $170k
Tepper MBA Carnegie Mellon University · Pittsburgh, PA 22.8 #16 #30 #17 #28 28.0% 710 $170k
Anderson MBA University of California, Los Angeles · Los Angeles, CA 17.3 #18 #24 #16 #11 25.0% 714 $172k
McCombs MBA University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX 24.5 #18 #35 #15 #30 28.5% 706 $168k
Kelley MBA Indiana University · Bloomington, IN 34.0 #21 #50 #23 #42 35.0% 688 $152k
Kenan-Flagler MBA University of North Carolina · Chapel Hill, NC 29.3 #21 #40 #20 #36 31.0% 700 $162k
Goizueta MBA Emory University · Atlanta, GA 33.8 #23 #45 #22 #45 30.0% 690 $160k
Marshall MBA University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA 27.0 #25 #38 #19 #26 26.0% 708 $165k
Foster MBA University of Washington · Seattle, WA 27.5 #26 #29 19.0% 700 $145k
Fisher MBA Ohio State University · Columbus, OH 34.0 #28 #40 30.0% 660 $120k
Jones MBA Rice University · Houston, TX 31.0 #28 #34 33.0% 710 $153k
Mendoza MBA University of Notre Dame · Notre Dame, IN 33.5 #28 #39 42.0% 670 $130k
McDonough MBA Georgetown University · Washington, DC 32.0 #31 #42 #21 #34 31.0% 700 $162k
Carlson MBA University of Minnesota · Minneapolis, MN 39.0 #34 #44 35.0% 661 $125k
Owen MBA Vanderbilt University · Nashville, TN 41.0 #35 #47 38.0% 668 $148k
Smeal MBA Pennsylvania State University · State College, PA 37.0 #37 37.0% 652 $115k
Questrom MBA Boston University · Boston, MA 40.0 #40 38.0% 665 $130k
Olin MBA Washington University in St. Louis · St. Louis, MO 36.8 #25 #52 #24 #46 32.0% 694 $155k
Scheller MBA Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, GA 38.0 #24 #55 #25 #48 30.0% 695 $155k
AdmitRank Composite = equal-weight avg across US News, FT, Bloomberg, QS (lower = better)
FT = Financial Times (global, incl. intl. schools)
BBW = Bloomberg Businessweek (biennial)
Note: FT 2026 rankings excluded Stanford, Columbia, and SDA Bocconi due to insufficient alumni survey data. These schools show composite scores based on 3 publications (US News, Bloomberg, QS).
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