Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

Graduating With An MBA & Lots Of Debt

MBA student borrowing continues to soar

by: John A. Byrne on May 15, 2012 | 7 minute read

 

 TOP 25 SCHOOLS WHOSE MBAS GRADUATE WITH THE MOST STUDENT DEBT

School 2011 Average Debt 2010 Average Debt 2009 Average Debt
  1. UPenn (Wharton) $114,339* $109,836 $105,489
  2. Columbia $100,000* NA NA
  3. Duke (Fuqua) $96,805 $92.827 $88,050
  4. Dartmouth (Tuck) $96,346 $92,292 $85,917
  5. Yale  $93,723 $86,895 $99,418
  6. Michigan (Ross) $93,602 $92,735 $84,798
  7. Virginia (Darden) $90,949 $72,027 $66,272
  8. Northwestern (Kellogg) $90,200 $87,256 NA
  9. Cornell (Johnson) $90,194 $86,900 $83,700
10. New York (Stern) $89,040 $85,198 $78,887
11. Vanderbilt (Owen) $87,587 $80,857 $76,957
12. MIT (Sloan) $86,688 NA NA
13. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) $83,388 $75,570 $87,592
14. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) $82,747 $77,124 $75,251
15. Harvard  $77,880 $73,110 $76,958
16. Stanford $77,599 $71,403 $75,442
17. Texas-Austin (McCombs) $76,361 $77,644 $69,552
18. UCLA (Anderson) $73,417 $62,711 $64,030
19. Chicago (Booth) $70,839 $79,539 $86,758
20. Emory (Goizueta) $68,078 $60,435 $58,440
21. Indiana (Kelley) $67,562 NA NA
22. Washington (Olin) $67,361 NA NA
23. Notre Dame (Mendoza) $66,882 $62,858 $65,925
24. Pepperdine (Graziadio) $66,111 $66,242 $71,680
25. Minnesota (Carlson) $60,473 NA NA

Source: Business schools reporting the average indebtedness of the 2011 graduating class to U.S. News & World Report

Notes: An asterisk indicates an estimate by Poets&Quants based on reporting.

DON’T MISS: MBA DEBT: THE BURDEN GROWS HEAVIER & GETS SCARIER or THE CLASS THE LOANS FELL ON

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