Poets&Quants | The Best B-School Alumni Networks in the U.S.

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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John A. Byrne is the founder and editor-in-chief of C-Change Media, publishers of Poets&Quants and four other higher education websites. He has authored or co-authored more than ten books, including two New York Times bestsellers. John is the former executive editor of Businessweek, editor-in-chief of Businessweek. com, editor-in-chief of Fast Company, and the creator of the first regularly published rankings of business schools. As the co-founder of CentreCourt MBA Festivals, he hopes to meet you at the next MBA event in-person or online. View all posts by John A. Byrne