Acceptance Rates At The Top 50 MBA Programs

Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business has the lowest acceptance rate of any prestige full-time MBA program

ACCEPTANCE RATES FOR LEADING BUSINESS SCHOOL MBA PROGRAMS

P&Q Rank & School 2016 Accept Rate 2016 Apps 2016 Admits 2016 Enrolled 2015 Accept Rate 2015 Apps 2015 Admits 2015 Enrolled
  1. Harvard 10.7% 9,759 1,042 934 10.7% 9,688 1,033 937
  2. Stanford 6.0% 8,116 489 417 6.1% 7,899 485 407
  3. Chicago 23.6% 4,117 973 586 24.4% 4,284 1,047 585
  4. Kellogg 20.1% 4,553 917 474 20.6% 4,300 887 NA
  4. Wharton 19.6% 6,679 1,306 851 19.8% 6,590 1,302 856
  6. MIT 11.7% 5,707 669 409 14.6% 4,254 623 400
  7. Tuck 22.4% 2,623 588 285 22.6% 2,585 584 286
  8. Berkeley 12.0% 3,957 475 252 13.0% 3,506 455 246
  9. Columbia 14.1% 5,534 783 558 18.0% 5,829 1,048 762
10. Yale 19.0% 3,649 692 334 20.7% 3,449 713 326
11. Duke 22.1% 3,737 827 446 23.1% 3,424 729 450
12. Darden 26.5% 2,524 668 345 27.8% 2,579 718 334
13. Michigan 26.3% 3,354 881 413 28.3% 3,207 907 407
14. Cornell 27.6% 1,947 537 279 32.4% 1,704 552 274
15. UCLA 20.7% 3,290 680 361 19.8% 3,533 699 372
16. UNC 36.4% 2,237 815 298 33.8% 2,357 797 276
17. NYU 23.1% 3,773 872 390 20.0% 3,696 740 340
18. Texas 28.0% 2,530 709 260 29.7% 2,266 674 265
19. Tepper 30.3% 1,615 490 207 30.6% 1,698 519 208
20. Emory 33.1% 1,343 445 181 30.0% 1,384 417 166
21. Indiana 31.4% 1,532 481 185 29.2% 1,471 430 186
22. Foster 23.9% 1,032 247 125 25.6% 1,045 267 128
23. Rice 26.6% 764 203 110 27.2% 775 211 116
24. Mendoza 41.0% 647 265 121 40.5% 692 280 122
25. Geotown 44.6% 1,911 852 287 44.3% 1,862 806 270

Source: P&Q analysis of publicly available data provided by schools to U.S. News

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