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.

 

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