How Much Will You Have To Borrow? by: John A. Byrne on March 28, 2014 | 19,189 Views March 28, 2014 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit Highest MBA Debt Burdens At Ranked Business Schools School 2013 Debt % In Debt 2012 Debt 2011 Debt ’13–12 Change UPenn (Wharton) $118,100* 68% $117,200* $114,339* +0.8%* Columbia Business School $115,200* 70% $114,800* $100,000 +0.3%* Duke (Fuqua) $108,186 66% $102,054 $96,805 +6.0% Virginia (Darden) $102,968 62% $105,490 $90,949 -2.4% MIT (Sloan) $100,512 72% $100,212 $86,688 +0.3% Dartmouth (Tuck) $96,170 70%* $94,512 $96,346 +1.8% Michigan (Ross) $97,915 60% $95,720 $93,602 +2.3% Cornell (Johnson) $97,500 68%* $95,600 $90,194 +2.02% Yale $96,341 73% $95,235 $93,723 +1.2% New York (Stern) $93,832 69%* $105,782 $89,040 -11.3% Northwestern (Kellogg) $91,834 66% $88,740 $90,200 +3.5% Pepperdine (Graziadio) $89,245 43% $85,672 $66,111 +4.2% UNC (Kenan-Flagler) $84,696 61% $82,784 $82,747 +2.3% Thunderbird $84,187 45% $88,195 NA -4.5% Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) $83,928 68% $88,156 $83,388 -4.8% Stanford GSB $79,869 70%* $79,049 $77,559 +1.0% UCLA (Anderson) $77,326 54% $71,995 $73,417 +7.4% Indiana (Kelley) $77,038 64% $76,685 $67,562 +0.5% Chicago (Booth) $76,700* 68%* $72,959 $70,839 +5.1%* Vanderbilt (Owen) $76,205 67%* $84,342 $87,587 -9.6% Harvard Business School $73,926 61% $70,731 $77,880 +4.5% UC-Irvine (Merage) $71,843 46% NA NA ———- Texas-Austin (McCombs) $70,395 67% $80,589 $76,351 -12.6% Minnesota (Carlson) $69,372 62% $61,916 $60,473 +12.0% Washington Univ. (Olin) $68,047 57% $68,732 $67,361 -1.0% Fordham University $66,664 48% $69,637 NA -9.6% Rice University (Jones) $66,265 49% NA NA ———- Babson College (Olin) $65,700 36% NA NA ———- UC-Berkeley (Haas) $64,598 53% $63,652 NA +1.5% Boston College (Carroll) $64,342 67%* $61,400 NA -4.8% Emory (Goizueta) $63,979 67% $62,716 $68,078 +2.0% Notre Dame (Mendoza) $61,547 66% NA NA ———- Source: Business schools reporting the average indebtedness of recent graduating classes to U.S. News & World Report or to Poets&Quants Notes: An asterisk indicates an estimate by Poets&Quants. RELATED STORIES: MBA Debt: The Burden Grow Heavier & Gets Scarier An MBA Vows To Graduate Without A Dollar of Debt The Class The Loans Fell On Previous PagePage 2 of 2 1 2