GPAs At The Top 50 Business Schools

MBA students in Carey’s new Forward Focus MBA program. Photo by W. Scott Mitchell

P&Q Rank & School	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	5-Year Trend
1. Harvard Business School	3.66	3.67	3.70	3.67	3.66	———
2. Stanford GSB	3.75	3.74	3.73	3.69	3.70	+.05
3. Chicago (Bo0th)	3.59	3.60	3.58	3.52	3.52	+.07
4. UPenn (Wharton)	3.60	3.60	3.60	3.60	3.56	+.04
5. Northwestern (Kellogg)	3.60	3.60	3.54	3.69	3.54	+.04
6. Columbia Business School	3.50	3.50	3.50	3.50	3.50	———
7. MIT (Sloan)	3.54	3.58	3.58	3.53	3.51	+.03
8. UC-Berkeley (Haas)	3.66	3.62	3.60	3.61	3.64	+.02
9. Dartmouth (Tuck)	3.52	3.54	3.53	3.49	3.52	———
10. Yale	3.60	3.53	3.57	3.55	3.52	+.08
11. Duke (Fuqua)	3.40	3.43	3.42	3.42	3.44	-.04
12. Virginia (Darden)	3.53	3.50	3.51	3.45	3.40	+.13
13. Michigan (Ross)	3.36	3.40	3.40	3.40	3.40	-.04
14. UCLA (Anderson)	3.48	3.50	3.47	3.56	3.50	-.02
14. Cornell (Johnson)	3.35	3.35	3.32	3.29	3.29	+.06
16. New York (Stern)	3.51	3.52	3.51	3.51	3.42	+.09
17. UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	3.41	3.42	3.33	3.34	3.31	+.10
18. Texas-Austin (McCombs)	3.40	3.40	3.39	3.40	3.43	-.03
19. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	3.33	3.21	3.28	3.26	3.35	-.02
20. Emory (Goizueta)	3.36	3.30	3.34	3.38	3.30	+.06
21. Indiana (Kelley)	3.36	3.34	3.31	3.33	3.32	+.04
22. Washington (Foster)	3.35	3.43	3.36	3.37	3.40	-.05
23. Washington (Olin)	3.40	3.43	3.39	3.43	3.32	+.08
24. Georgetown (McDonough)	3.36	3.34	3.34	3.32	3.31	+.05
25. Notre Dame (Mendoza)	3.31	3.38	3.31	3.26	3.33	-.02

Source: Poets&Quants analysis from available GPA data

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