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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