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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