Taking The Back Door Into An Elite MBA Program

A Wisconsin Business School professor in class

A Wisconsin Business School professor in class

For this exercise, we’ve taken the most highly ranked business schools by U.S. News with part-time programs and show you the numbers they’ve reported for their full- and part-time programs.

The Most Highly Ranked Full-Time MBA Programs With Part-Time Options

Rank & School FT Accept Rate FT GMAT FT GPA PT Accept Rate PT GMAT PT GPA
  4. Chicago (Booth) 23.5% 724 3.60 58.2%* 692 3.39
  6. Northwestern (Kellogg) 23.2% 713 3.60 62.1%* 672 3.40
  7. UC-Berkeley (Haas) 13.2% 717 3.62 43.4% 692 3.37
11. New York (Stern) 18.1% 721 3.52 60.8% 670 3.37
11. Michigan (Ross) 38.4%* 702 3.40 78.5%* 644 3.30
15. UCLA (Anderson) 17.8% 715 3.50 64.1% 673 3.35
17. Texas (McCombs) 28.5% 690 3.40 77.9% 638 3.33
19. Washington (Olin) 26.7% 699 3.43 86.7% 562 3.24
20. Carnegie Mellon 31.2% 687 3.24 76.3% 654 3.39
21. Indiana (Kelley) 33.1% 668 3.34 48.1% 619 3.16
21. Emory (Goizueta) 30.7% 678 3.30 75.2% 631 3.27
23. Washington (Foster) 22.9% 682 3.43 64.5% 632 3.33
24. Georgetown 47.4% 691 3.34 57.9% 669 3.34
25. Southern Cal 31.6% 684 3.35 57.8% 622 3.18
27. Minnesota (Carlson) 38.7% 683 3.42 84.7% 598 3.41
27. Texas A&M (Mays) 23.0% 647 3.47 71.9% 607 3.28
30. Arizona State (Carey) 24.5% 673 3.46 87.9% 602 3.19
30. Ohio State (Fisher) 31.2% 661 3.46 65.2% 611 3.34
30. Georgia Tech 22.7% 676 3.31 77.2% 623 3.20
33. Rice (Jones) 26.2% 676 3.40 72.3% 627 3.30
33. Wisconsin-Madison 29.0% 668 3.35 94.1% 608 3.28
37. Texas-Dallas 26.2% 676 3.50 66.7% 699 3.41
37. Florida (Hough) 24.0% 687 3.50 72.4% 601 3.20
37. Rochester (Simon) 32.1% 684 3.55 97.6% NA 3.4
41. Maryland (Smith) 28.7% 662 3.33 88.7% 590 3.25
43. Iowa (Tippie) 36.7% 660 3.39 87.6% 560 3.42
43. Boston University 30.5% 670 3.41 87.9% 602 3.28

Source: Business schools reporting to U.S. News & World Report

How to read the table: EAch school’s data is accompanied by its latest full-time rank from the U.S. News & World Report ranking published in March of 2015. An asterisk indicates an estimate by Poets&Quants based on previously reported data