Ranking Top MBA Programs By ‘Credit Ratings’: Is Your School A+? by: John A. Byrne on February 11, 2015 | | 24,987 Views February 11, 2015 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Credit Ratings For Top MBA Programs Rating School Leverage Ratio Debt Service Ratio Average Debt Average Pay Annual Loan Payments A+ Brigham Young (Marriott) 0.25 28.05 $27,942 $110,216 $3,929.52 A Wisconsin 0.21 34.68 $22,410 $109,293 $3,151.56 A Washington (Foster) 0.32 21.99 $38,394 $118,759 $5,399.40 A Ohio State (Fisher) 0.39 18.37 $41,991 $108,510 $5,905.32 A Rochester (Simon) 0.41 17.24 $38,058 $92,262 $5,352.24 A UC-Berkeley (Haas) 0.48 14.76 $64,598 $134,078 $9,084.60 A Emory (Goizueta) 0.52 13.80 $63,979 $124,128 $8,997.48 A Harvard 0.53 13.31 $73,926 $138,346 $10,396.44 A Notre Dame (Mendoza) 0.53 13.32 $61,547 $115,296 $8,655.48 A Arizona State (Carey) 0.54 13.22 $55,887 $103,903 $7,859.52 A Texas (McCombs) 0.57 12.51 $70,395 $123,868 $9,899.76 A Rice (Jones) 0.57 12.41 $66,265 $115,693 $9,318.96 A Stanford GSB 0.58 12.24 $79,869 $137,525 $11,232.12 A Michigan State (Broad) 0.58 12.22 $59,801 $102,806 $8,409.96 A Washington (Olin) 0.62 11.55 $68,047 $110,533 $9,569.64 A Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 0.66 10.77 $86,595 $131,181 $12,178.08 A Vanderbilt (Owen) 0.67 10.56 $76,205 $113,170 $10,716.84 A Northwestern (Kellogg) 0.68 10.52 $91,834 $135,838 $12,914.88 A Indiana (Kelley) 0.68 10.51 $77,038 $113,898 $10,834.08 A UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 0.69 10.37 $84,696 $123,526 $11,910.96 A NYU (Stern) 0.71 10.00 $93,832 $131,975 $13,195.80 A- Illinois 0.56 12.81 $52,612 $94,751 $7,398.96 A- Minnesota (Carlson) 0.59 12.09 $117,973 $131,975 $9,756.00 A- UCLA (Anderson) 0.63 11.34 $77,326 $123,353 $10,874.52 A- Boston (Carroll) 0.66 10.71 $64,342 $96,915 $9,048.60 A- Michigan (Ross) 0.73 9.80 $97,915 $134,883 $13,770.00 A- MIT (Sloan) 0.73 9.70 $100,512 $137,057 $14,135.28 A- Cornell (Johnson) 0.76 9.41 $97,500 $129,037 $13,711.68 A- Virginia (Darden) 0.76 9.40 $102,968 $136,102 $14,480.64 A- Yale SOM 0.76 9.30 $96,341 $126,013 $13,548.72 B Thunderbird 0.99 7.17 $84,187 $84,915 $11,839.44 B Pepperdine (Graziadio) 1.11 6.42 $89,245 $80,592 $12,550.80 Source: M7 Financial Previous PagePage 3 of 3 1 2 3 Questions about this article? Email us or leave a comment below. Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus.