The Ultimate Ranking: School Rejection Rates

THE PERCENTAGE OF APPLICANTS WHO REJECT THE BUSINESS SCHOOL THAT ACCEPTS THEM

School	Rejection Rate	Applicants Who Say No	Applicants Accepted	Total Applicants
Harvard Business School	11%	121	1,096	9,134
Stanford Graduate School of Business	13%	60	463	6,618
Columbia Business School	29%	308	1,062	6,669
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	30%	367	1,224	6,442
MIT (Sloan)	33%	193	584	4,490
University of Chicago (Booth)	37%	339	917	4,169
Northwestern University (Kellogg)	44%	438	995	4,974
UC-Berkeley (Haas)	44%	182	413	3,444
Cornell University (Johnson)	44%	213	484	1,791
New York University (Stern)	45%	278	618	4,416
Dartmouth College (Tuck)	46%	227	494	2,744
University of Virginia (Darden)	46%	261	567	2,269
University of Michigan (Ross)	47%	441	937	2,929
Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper)	47%	174	371	1,544
Duke University (Fuqua)	52%	467	898	3,452
UC-Los Angeles (Anderson)	52%	411	791	2,727
Indiana University (Kelley)	52%	233	448	1,179
University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)	54%	304	563	4,416
UNC-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)	56%	366	654	1,720
Yale School of Management	58%	311	536	2,823

Source: Business schools reporting to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. These numbers are estimates based on available data from the schools. In some cases, a few schools will not report yield numbers, though this figure can be reliably estimated based on the other data reported by the school. All the data is for the class that entered in the fall of 2011.

Note: An earlier version of this table incorrectly estimated Columbia Business School’s yield and therefore its rejection rate. We regret the error.