Debt Burden At The Top 50 U.S. B-Schools: How Much Can You Expect To Owe For Your MBA?

AVERAGE DEBT AT THE TOP U.S. MBA PROGRAMS: COLLEGE SCORECARD

2024 P&Q Rank	School	Average Student Debt – 2020 (College Scorecard)	Average Student Debt – 2019 (College Scorecard)	YOY Change
1	Stanford GSB	$80,488	$73,602	9.4%
2	Harvard Business School	$25,555	$25,083	1.9%
3	Dartmouth (Tuck)	$58,547	$64,459	-9.2%
4	Columbia Business School	$99,957	$98,036	2.0%
5	Yale SOM	$88,659	$82,820	7.1%
6	Duke (Fuqua)	$90,251	$94,101	-4.1%
7	Cornell (Johnson)	$116,730	$108,059	8.0%
8	Virginia (Darden)	$90,121	$92,331	-2.4%
9	Michigan (Ross)	$88,283	$72,114	22.4%
10	New York (Stern)	$108,294	$108,594	-0.3%
11	Chicago (Booth)	$106,339	$95,657	10.0%
12	Northwestern (Kellogg)	$43,367	$38,245	14.2%
13	UCLA (Anderson)	$111,023	$98,818	12.4%
14	MIT (Sloan)	$70,094	$72,519	-3.3%
15	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	NA	NA	NA
16	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	$106,819	$98,433	8.5%
17	Washington (Foster)	$57,984	$59,127	-1.9%
18	Rice (Jones)	$68,948	$53,050	30.0%
19	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	$80,048	$80,778	-0.9%
20	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	$96,011	$63,740	50.6%
21	Vanderbilt (Owen)	$91,494	$91,454	0.04%
22	Southern California (Marshall)	$92,035	$95,052	-3.2%
23	Emory (Goizueta)	$68,307	$64,550	5.8%
24	Georgetown (McDonough)	$108,170	$60,894	77.6%
25	Florida (Warrington)	$45,917	$43,821	4.8%

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