Why It’s Easier To Get Into A Top School

Most Selective Full-Time MBA Programs in the U.S.

School

 

 

2011 Acceptance

Rate

2010 Acceptance

Rate

% Change

in Apps

2011

Apps

2010

Apps

Stanford 7% 6% -8.1% 6,618 7,204
Harvard 12% 11% -4.1% 9,134 9,524
Berkeley (Haas) 12.2% 12.0% -5.0% 3,444 3,627
MIT Sloan 13% 13% -6.1% 4,490 4,782
New York (Stern) 13.6% 13.0% -1.9% 4,416 4,501
Columbia 16% 15% +0.5% 6,669 6,666
Dartmouth (Tuck) 18% 20% +7.5% 2,744 2,528
UPenn (Wharton) 19.0%* 16.9% -5.7% 6,442 6,809
Yale 19% 17% -4.7% 2,823 2,963
Northwestern 20% 19% -5.6% 4,974 5,270
Chicago (Booth) 22% 22% -3.0% 4,169 4,299
Carnegie Mellon 24% 27% +0.3% 1,544 1,540
Rice (Jones) 25% 36% +36.9% 715 544
Texas (McCombs) 25.3% 24.0% -0.3% 2,253 2,259
Georgia Tech 26% 21% -18.7% 362 445
Duke (Fuqua) 26% 24% -1.5% 3,452 3,506
Virginia (Darden) 26% 26% -9.8% 2,269 2,515
USC (Marshall) 27% 22% -7.9% 1,826 1,983
Cornell (Johnson) 27% 23% -10.5% 1,791 2,001
Texas A&M (Mays) 27.4% 23.0% -3.2% 554 537
UCLA (Anderson) 29% 29% +10.9% 2,727 2,458
Michigan (Ross) 32% 25% +7.6% 2,929 2,722
Emory (Goizueta) 35% 33% -6.7% 968 1,037
Michigan State 36% 29% -15.6% 508 602
SMU (Cox) 37% 35% +7.3% 606 565
UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 38% 36% -2.5% 1,720 1,764
Notre Dame 37% 33% -10.8% 969 1,086
Indiana (Kelley) 38% 42% -3.1% 1,179 1,217
Minnesota (Carlson) 41% 30% +19.0% 538 452
Brigham Young 52% 47% -15.8% 401 476

Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek data from schools. Bold percentages indicate an increase in applications for a school. * indicates an estimate because the school declined to provide specific data.

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