The New B-School Arms Race for the Best & Brightest

The MBA Scholarship Game: What Leading Schools Give To Students in Financial Support

School	% Getting Financial Aid	2011 Financial Aid	2005 Financial Aid
MIT (Sloan)	63%	$67,288	$55,000
NYU (Stern)	NA	$61,828	$42,554
Stanford GSB	75%	$58,562	$42,360
Harvard Business School	64%	$57,665	$48,360
Columbia	53%	$56,152	$48,725
Virginia (Darden)	75%	$56,150	$38,022
Dartmouth (Tuck)	72%	$55,457	$42,573
Northwestern (Kellogg)	65%	$53,504	$18,500
Michigan (Ross)	75%	$53,322	$53,399
Cornell (Johnson)	76%	$51,737	$39,300
Vanderbilt (Owen)	83%	$48,160	$36,887
Texas (McCombs)	68%	$47,770	$26,000
UCLA (Anderson)	78%	$47,691	$46,200
Georgetown (McDonough)	81%	$47,473	$42,000
Emory (Goizueta)	79%	$44,707	$34,543
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	80%	$44,653	$28,450
Yale	68%	$43,117	$27,000
Indiana (Kelley)	89%	$41,899	$24,429
UNC (Chapel Hill)	94%	$36,837	$34,884
Berkeley (Haas)	66%	$26,688	$26,044
Wisconsin-Madison	75%	$19,975	$7,749
Duke (Fuqua)	81%	NA	$40,113
Chicago (Booth)	NA	NA	$50,000
UPenn (Wharton)	NA	NA	$59,858
USC (Marshall)	NA	NA	$45,000

Source: Business schools reporting to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Financial aid includes loans, fellowships and assistantships. All numbers are for one year.

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