Ranking Top MBA Programs By 'Credit Ratings': Is Your School A+?

Credit Ratings For Top MBA Programs

Rating	School	Leverage Ratio	Debt Service Ratio	Average Debt	Average Pay	Annual Loan Payments
A+	Brigham Young (Marriott)	0.25	28.05	$27,942	$110,216	$3,929.52
A	Wisconsin	0.21	34.68	$22,410	$109,293	$3,151.56
A	Washington (Foster)	0.32	21.99	$38,394	$118,759	$5,399.40
A	Ohio State (Fisher)	0.39	18.37	$41,991	$108,510	$5,905.32
A	Rochester (Simon)	0.41	17.24	$38,058	$92,262	$5,352.24
A	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	0.48	14.76	$64,598	$134,078	$9,084.60
A	Emory (Goizueta)	0.52	13.80	$63,979	$124,128	$8,997.48
A	Harvard	0.53	13.31	$73,926	$138,346	$10,396.44
A	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	0.53	13.32	$61,547	$115,296	$8,655.48
A	Arizona State (Carey)	0.54	13.22	$55,887	$103,903	$7,859.52
A	Texas (McCombs)	0.57	12.51	$70,395	$123,868	$9,899.76
A	Rice (Jones)	0.57	12.41	$66,265	$115,693	$9,318.96
A	Stanford GSB	0.58	12.24	$79,869	$137,525	$11,232.12
A	Michigan State (Broad)	0.58	12.22	$59,801	$102,806	$8,409.96
A	Washington (Olin)	0.62	11.55	$68,047	$110,533	$9,569.64
A	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	0.66	10.77	$86,595	$131,181	$12,178.08
A	Vanderbilt (Owen)	0.67	10.56	$76,205	$113,170	$10,716.84
A	Northwestern (Kellogg)	0.68	10.52	$91,834	$135,838	$12,914.88
A	Indiana (Kelley)	0.68	10.51	$77,038	$113,898	$10,834.08
A	UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	0.69	10.37	$84,696	$123,526	$11,910.96
A	NYU (Stern)	0.71	10.00	$93,832	$131,975	$13,195.80
A-	Illinois	0.56	12.81	$52,612	$94,751	$7,398.96
A-	Minnesota (Carlson)	0.59	12.09	$117,973	$131,975	$9,756.00
A-	UCLA (Anderson)	0.63	11.34	$77,326	$123,353	$10,874.52
A-	Boston (Carroll)	0.66	10.71	$64,342	$96,915	$9,048.60
A-	Michigan (Ross)	0.73	9.80	$97,915	$134,883	$13,770.00
A-	MIT (Sloan)	0.73	9.70	$100,512	$137,057	$14,135.28
A-	Cornell (Johnson)	0.76	9.41	$97,500	$129,037	$13,711.68
A-	Virginia (Darden)	0.76	9.40	$102,968	$136,102	$14,480.64
A-	Yale SOM	0.76	9.30	$96,341	$126,013	$13,548.72
B	Thunderbird	0.99	7.17	$84,187	$84,915	$11,839.44
B	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	1.11	6.42	$89,245	$80,592	$12,550.80

Source: M7 Financial

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