The Ultimate B-School Test: How Many MBA Applicants Want That Class Seat

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business

THE METRIC TO WATCH: APPLICANTS PER CLASS SEAT

School	Applicants Per Seat	Applications	Class Size
1. Stanford GSB	19.5	7,899	406
2. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	14.6	3,592	246
3. Washington Univ. (Olin)	11.2	1,579	141
4. Yale SOM	10.6	3,449	326
5. MIT (Sloan)	10.5	4,254	406
6. Harvard	10.3	9,686	937
7. Northwestern (Kellogg)	9.5	4,650	492
7. UCLA (Anderson)	9.5	3,533	372
9. NYU (Stern)	9.1	3,696	405
10. Dartmouth (Tuck)	9.0	2,585	286
11. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	8.6	2,266	265
12. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	8.5	2,357	276
13. Emory (Goizueta)	8.3	1,384	166
14. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	8.2	1,698	208
14. U of Washington (Foster)	8.2	1,045	128
14. IESE Business School	8.2	2,300	280
17. USC (Marshall)	8.0	1,780	223
18. Michigan (Ross)	7.9	3,207	407
18. Indiana (Kelley)	7.9	1,471	186
20. Virginia (Darden)	7.7	2,579	334
20. Penn (Wharton)	7.7	6,590	861
20. Duke (Fuqua)	7.7	3,454	450
23. Columbia	7.6	5,829	762
24. Chicago (Booth)	7.3	4,286	585
25. Georgetown (McDonough)	6.9	1,867	270
25. Minnesota (Carlson)	6.9	594	86
27. Rice (Jones)	6.7	775	116
28. Cornell (Johnson)/td>	6.2	1,704	274
29. London Business School	5.7	2,374	417
29. Notre Dame (Mendoza)	5.7	692	122
31. Cambridge (Judge)	5.5	842	153
32. Ohio State (Fisher)	5.3	607	114
33. Vanderbilt (Owen)	5.1	879	174
34. OxFord (Said)	3.4	1,152	340
35. INSEAD	2.5	2,545	1,024