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Columbia | Mr. Underdog
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Kellogg SOM | Ms. Talent Acquisition
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Ross | Mr. Tax Accountant
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Tuck | Mr. Nothing Is Perma
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Columbia | Mr. Clean
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Acceptance Rates & Yield At The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs

by: Marc Ethier on April 17, 2024 | 3 Comments | 37,642 Views
Acceptance Rates At The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs

Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business, which in 2022 announced the downsizing of its MBA to one year, has the lowest acceptance rate in the lower 50 of Poets&Quants‘ annual MBA ranking: 18.5%

MBA ACCEPTANCE RATES, APPLICATIONS, ADMITS, CLASS SIZES & YIELD AT THE TOP U.S. B-SCHOOLS IN 2023

P&Q 2024 Rank School Acceptance Rate 2023 Applications 2023 Admits 2023 Enrolled 2023 Yield 2023
1 Stanford GSB 8.4% 6,190 521 431 82.7%
2 Harvard Business School 13.2% 8,149 1,076 938 87.2%
3 Dartmouth (Tuck) 40.1% 2,009 806 297 36.8%
4 Columbia Business School 22.4% 5,430 1,215 683 56.2%
5 Yale SOM 32.9% 3,076 1,013 339 33.5%
6 Duke (Fuqua) 22.1% 3,292 729 385 52.8%
7 Cornell (Johnson) 29.9% 2,553 764 283 37.0%
8 Virginia (Darden) 39.4% 2,834 1,116 352 31.5%
9 Michigan (Ross) 38.0% 2,976 1,131 376 33.2%
10 New York (Stern) 31.4% 3,075 966 327 33.9%
11 Chicago (Booth) 32.6% 4,184 1,364 657 48.2%
12 Northwestern (Kellogg) 33.3% 4,316 1,439 529 36.8%
13 UCLA (Anderson) 40.4% 2,182 881 296 33.6%
14 MIT (Sloan) 17.8% 5,317 947 409 43.2%
15 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 23.0% 2,904 667 244 36.6%
16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 28.5% 1,786 509 171 33.6%
17 Washington (Foster) 41.6% 830 345 111 32.2%
18 Rice (Jones) 39.0% 1,178 459 157 34.2%
19 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 37.9% 1,889 716 241 33.7%
20 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 37.6% 2,064 776 253 32.6%
21 Vanderbilt (Owen) 40.1% 1,410 566 160 28.3%
22 Southern California (Marshall) 22.9% 3,166 724 199 27.5%
23 Emory (Goizueta) 39.1% 1,104 432 125 28.9%
24 Georgetown (McDonough) 61.8% 1,428 883 258 29.2%
25 Florida (Warrington) 30.2% 126 38 18 47.4%
26 Rochester (Simon) 14.2% 1,692 241 82 34.0%
27 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 19.4% 777 151 70 46.4%
28 Washington (Olin) 27.9% 806 225 83 36.9%
29 Georgia (Terry) 35.5% 366 130 65 50.0%
30 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 33.2% 917 304 104 34.2%
31 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 24.8% 6,193 1,533 874 57.0%
32 Brigham Young (Marriott) 56.2% 217 122 99 81.1%
33 Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 33.2% 328 109 46 42.2%
34 William & Mary (Mason) 59.2% 434 257 90 35.0%
35 Arizona State (Carey) 16.2% 551 89 56 62.9%
36 Boston (Carroll) 57.4% 385 221 86 38.9%
37 Indiana (Kelley) 27.3% 1,163 318 96 30.2%
38 Michigan State (Broad) 17.4% 766 133 63 47.4%
39 Maryland (Smith) 34.0% 518 176 55 31.3%
40 UC-Irvine (Merage) 24.0% 342 82 36 43.9%
41 Boston University (Questrom) 36.0% 1,146 412 113 27.4%
42 George Washington 25.8% 555 143 49 34.3%
43 Texas A&M (Mays) 47.2% 252 119 57 47.9%
44 Minnesota (Carlson) 46.9% 375 176 87 49.4%
45 UC-Davis 26.9% 364 98 37 37.8%
46 Southern Methodist (Cox) 24.1% 665 160 74 46.3%
47 Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim) 32.3% 458 148 68 45.9%
48 Babson (Olin) 64.3% 846 544 171 31.4%
49 Rutgers Business School 41.9% 272 114 34 29.8%
50 Ohio State (Fisher) 12.2% 1,053 128 49 38.3%
51 Baruch (Zicklin) 50.0% 102 51 26 51.0%
52 Pittsburgh (Katz) 34.5% 400 138 40 29.0%
53 Wisconsin 49.6% 268 133 69 51.9%
54 Colorado (Leeds) 75.5% 249 188 66 35.1%
55 Utah (Eccles) 52.0% 152 79 29 36.7%
56 UMass-Amherst (Isenberg) 31.4% 204 64 43 67.2%
57 TCU (Neeley) 22.6% 248 56 34 60.7%
58 Howard 42.1% NA NA NA NA
59 Penn State (Smeal) 18.5% NA NA NA NA
60 Baylor (Hankamer) 36.6% 213 78 59 75.6%
60 Fordham (Gabelli) 58.4% 269 157 59 37.6%
62 Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam) 51.4% 105 54 42 77.8%
63 Case Western (Weatherhead) 48.0% 202 97 19 19.6%
64 Houston (Bauer) 33.6% 119 40 10 25.0%
65 Denver (Daniels) 64.6% 113 73 31 42.5%
66 Kentucky (Gatton) 77.6% 98 76 58 76.3%
67 Iowa State (Ivy) 87.5% 56 49 35 71.4%
68 Syracuse (Whitman) 83.2% 125 104 37 35.6%
69 Arizona (Eller) 31.3% 144 45 28 62.2%
69 Stevens Institute of Technology 37.4% 516 193 36 18.7%
69 South Carolina (Moore) 50.9% 55 28 20 71.4%
72 Alabama (Manderson) 31.5% 724 228 195 85.5%
73 University of Miami (Herbert) 58.3% 115 67 27 40.3%
74 Arkansas (Walton) 57.3% 103 59 39 66.1%
75 North Carolina State (Poole) 25.4% 193 49 23 46.9%
76 Buffalo (SUNY) 77.1% 144 111 52 46.8%
77 Chapman (Argyros) 74.6% 59 44 26 59.1%
78 Cincinnati (Lindner) 32.0% 97 31 23 74.2%
79 North Carolina A&T (Deese) 95.5% 89 85 55 64.7%
80 Tulane (Freeman) 63.8% 105 67 28 41.8%
81 Charleston 42.8% 215 92 57 62.0%
82 Boise State 97.0% 67 65 36 55.4%
83 Oklahoma (Price) 84.7% 72 61 39 63.9%
84 South Florida (Muma) 46.1% 76 35 29 82.9%
85 Mississippi 42.4% 132 56 42 75.0%
86 Hawaii (Shidler) 80.6% 36 29 20 69.0%
87 Auburn (Harbert) 44.5% 137 61 47 77.0%
87 Kansas 76.8% 56 43 30 69.8%
89 Pepperdine (Graziadio) 61.7% 180 111 40 36.0%
90 UC-San Diego (Rady) 43.9% 294 129 38 29.5%
91 Johns Hopkins (Carey) 56.4%* NA NA NA NA
92 Hult 64.5% 1,068 689 173 25.1%
93 Temple (Fox) 50.0% 46 23 3 13.0%
93 Brandeis 69.8% 129 90 14 15.6%
95 Pace (Lubin) 44.8% 1,839 824 122 14.8%
95 Detroit Mercy 97.2% 36 35 13 37.1%
97 Willamette (Atkinson) 99.0% 103 102 45 44.1%
98 Rochester (Saunders) 61.9% 160 99 50 50.5%
99 Connecticut-Storrs 34.0% NA NA NA NA
99 Louisiana State (Ourso) 66.1% 177 117 109 93.2%
*Estimate

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