MBA Debt Burden At The Top 50 U.S. Business Schools: Where Grads Owe The Most & Least

MBA Debt Burden At The Top 50 U.S. Business Schools: Where Grads Owe The Most & Least

AVERAGE DEBT FOR MBA GRADUATES OF THE TOP U.S. BUSINESS SCHOOLS

2023 P&Q Rank School Average Student Debt – 2014-2019 (College Scorecard) Average Indebtedness – 2022 (US News) Percent of Class of 2022 Graduating With Debt (US News) Tuition & Fees – 2022 MBA Average Pay – 2022*
1 Pennsylvania (Wharton) $85,570 NA NA $ 87,370 $186,279
2 Chicago (Booth) $95,657 NA NA $ 80,961 $191,177
3 Stanford GSB $73,602 NA 42% $ 79,860 $193,388
4 Northwestern (Kellogg) $38,245 NA NA $ 81,015 $185,873
5 Harvard Business School $25,083 $88,757 52% $ 74,910 $194,723
6 MIT (Sloan) $72,519 NA NA $ 84,200 $182,529
7 Columbia Business School $98,036 NA NA $ 84,496 $185,125
8 Yale SOM $82,820 $104,882 44% $ 82,700 $178,198
9 Dartmouth (Tuck) $64,459 NA NA $ 77,520 $186,690
10 UC-Berkeley (Haas) NA $110,102 46% $ 76,433 $175,221
11 Michigan (Ross) $72,114 NA NA $ 73,196 $181,039
12 Duke (Fuqua) $94,101 $105,084 56% $ 75,000 $182,080
13 Cornell (Johnson) $108,059 NA NA $ 79,910 $186,462
14 Virginia (Darden) $92,331 $114,043 53% $ 75,600 $186,974
15 New York (Stern) $108,594 NA 45% $ 82,326 $191,768
16 UCLA (Anderson) $98,818 NA NA $ 74,618 $168,760
17 Southern California (Marshall) $95,052 NA NA $ 72,501 $173,761
18 Texas-Austin (McCombs) $80,778 NA NA $ 58,270 $168,883
19 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) $63,740 $107,994 65% $ 71,364 $154,161
20 Washington (Foster) $59,127 $68,316 36% $ 57,846 $177,833
21 Emory (Goizueta) $64,550 $95,094 59% $ 71,900 $176,949
22 Indiana (Kelley) $48,496 $53,265 39% $ 54,602 $159,810
23 Washington (Olin) $84,449 $61,995 39% $ 66,200 $135,456
24 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) $98,433 $104,233 51% $ 75,712 $181,569
25 Georgetown (McDonough) $60,894 NA NA $ 64,600 $163,628
*Calculated taking average salary X 100, adding to average sign-on bonus X percentage of students reporting that they received it, then dividing by 100.

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