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How Forbes Ranked The Top 30 Schools Last Time & How They Compare

2011 Rank & School	2011 Years To Payback	2001 Years To Payback	2011 Total 5-Year Gain	2001 Total 5-Year Gain
1. Harvard	3.6	2.6	$118,000	$162,000
2. Stanford	3.5	3.3	$116,000	$91,000
3. Chicago (Booth)	3.5	3.2	$112,000	$103,000
4. UPenn (Wharton)	3.7	2.9	$111,000	$142,000
5. Columbia	3.6	3.0	$106,000	$136,000
6. Dartmouth (Tuck)	3.6	3.0	$102,000	$119,000
7. Northwestern (Kellogg)	3.5	3.3	$101,000	$92,000
8. Cornell (Johnson)	3.5	2.9	$100,000	$93,000
9. Virginia (Darden)	3.5	3.2	$99,000	$85,000
10. MIT (Sloan)	3.7	3.4	$97,000	$92,000
11. Yale	3.3	3.0	$96,000	$97,000
12. Duke (Fuqua)	3.6	3.2	$93,000	$90,000
13. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	3.7	3.4	$88,000	$74,000
14. Michigan (Ross)	3.6	3.4	$81,000	$72,000
15. Brigham Young	3.1	2.5	$81,000	$82,000
16. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	3.6	3.3	$78,000	$72,000
17. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	3.6	3.0	$78,000	$74,000
18. New York (Stern)	3.7	3.7	$77,000	$60,000
19. Michigan State (Broad)	3.1	3.1	$77,000	$71,000
20. UCLA (Anderson)	3.7	3.3	$77,000	$86,000
21. Iowa (Tippie)	3.1	3.0	$76,000	$71,000
22. Emory (Goizueta)	3.5	3.3	$72,000	$72,000
23. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	3.8	3.4	$72,000	$82,000
24. Texas A&M (Mays)	3.3	3.2	$72,000	$53,000
25. SMU (Cox)	3.3	3.4	$71,000	$72,000
26. Penn State (Smeal)	3.2	3.9	$70,000	$32,000
27. Indiana (Kelley)	3.3	3.5	$69,000	$54,000
28. Minnesota (Carlson)	3.4	3.3	$69,000	$55,000
29. Wisconsin-Madison	3.5	NA	$69,000	NA
30. Wake Forest (Babcock)	3.4	3.2	$66,000	$73,000

Source: Forbes

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