And, it goes without saying, the likelihood that grads will reach into their pockets and give back to their alma maters.
ALUMNI NETWORKS AT THE TOP 25 BUSINESS SCHOOLS IN THE U.S.
| School | Percentage of Alumni Giving | Median Gift | No. of Living MBA Alums | Active Alumni Clubs | Countries with Clubs |
| Dartmouth (Tuck) | 67% | $200 | 8,976 | 60 | 20 |
| Yale | 46% | $125 | 6,003 | 17 | 4 |
| Virginia (Darden) | 43% | $150 | 9,664 | 90 | 44 |
| Stanford | 41% | $250 | 17,083 | 60 | 33 |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 35% | $200 | 5,456 | 274 | 42 |
| Harvard Business School | 27% | $250 | 43,585 | 98 | 37 |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 23% | $150* | 13,014 | 15 | 7 |
| Northwestern (Kellogg) | 22%* | $150* | 41,503 | 80 | 41 |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 20% | $200 | 14,192 | 34 | 14 |
| Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 20%* | $200* | 39,779 | 78 | 40 |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 20% | $100 | 20,153 | 32 | 11 |
| Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 19% | $100 | 8,304 | 35 | 13 |
| USC (Marshall) | 19% | $350 | 25,700 | 47 | 22 |
| Chicago (Booth) | 18%* | $125* | 44,772 | 89 | 38 |
| MIT (Sloan) | 18%* | $100* | NA | NA | NA |
| Berkeley (Haas) | 17% | $200 | 11,302 | 87 | 29 |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 17% | $150 | 8,233 | 28 | 18 |
| Columbia Business School | 16% | $200 | 39,000 | 57 | 35 |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 15% | $100 | 9,825 | 40 | 14 |
| Michigan (Ross) | 14% | $100 | 26,660 | 51 | 25 |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 12% | $120 | 14,534 | 13 | 1 |
| NYU (Stern) | 10%** | $125* | 42,863 | 62 | 42 |
| SMU (Cox) | 10% | $100 | 10,651 | 30 | 22 |
| Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 8% | $100 | 17,726 | 35 | 13 |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 5% | $70 | 15,268 | 1 | 1 |
Source: Business Schools * Estimate by Poets&Quants ** Includes all Stern alumni
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