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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.