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

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

2023 TUITION & FEES AND MBA AVERAGE PAY AT THE TOP U.S. B-SCHOOLS RANKED 1-25

2024 P&Q Rank School Tuition & Fees – 2023 MBA Average Pay – 2023*
1 Stanford GSB $79,860 $204,008
2 Harvard Business School $74,910 $188,223
3 Dartmouth (Tuck) $77,520 $196,995
4 Columbia Business School $84,496 $187,939
5 Yale SOM $82,700 $188,084
6 Duke (Fuqua) $75,000 $189,754
7 Cornell (Johnson) $79,910 $193,053
8 Virginia (Darden) $75,600 $199,247
9 Michigan (Ross) $73,196 $188,420
10 New York (Stern) $82,326 $196,176
11 Chicago (Booth) $80,961 $199,741
12 Northwestern (Kellogg) $81,015 $194,425
13 UCLA (Anderson) $74,618 $173,640
14 MIT (Sloan) $84,200 $191,293
15 UC-Berkeley (Haas) $76,433 $184,860
16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) $75,712 $188,081
17 Washington (Foster) $57,846 $175,506
18 Rice (Jones) $69,000 $171,053
19 Texas-Austin (McCombs) $58,270 $177,023
20 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) $71,364 $167,305
21 Vanderbilt (Owen) $66,200 $180,860
22 Southern California (Marshall) $72,501 $166,900
23 Emory (Goizueta) $71,900 $179,032
24 Georgetown (McDonough) $64,600 $179,064
25 Florida (Hough) $30,130 $150,379

*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.

Source: Tuition & fees is from U.S. News via the Foster MBA Calculator. Out-of-state is used where there is a difference.

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