Ranking MBAs By Return-On-Investment

Top 25 MBAs By Return-On-Investment, According To Bloomberg

School Annual ROI 10-Year Gain Median Starting Pay Total MBA Investment
1. Kentucky (Gatton) 23.8% $561,057 $86,652 $74,990
2. Syracuse (Whitman) 22% $751,502 $106,625 $119,559
3. Mississippi 20.7% $429,688 $81,292 $77,381
4. Georgia (Terry) 19.5% $708,062 $123,923 $144,010
5. Oklahoma (Price) 18.7% $560,249 $115,159 $123,516
6. Florida International (Chapman) 17.7% $504,387 $99,137 $123,242
7. Florida (Warrington) 17.6% $655,049 $139,413 $160,689
8. Tennessee (Haslam) 16.8% $530,051 $116,304 $142,106
9. Georgia Tech (Scheller) 16.6% $836,402 $165,230 $229,420
10. Texas A&M (Mays) 16.1% $634,291 $140,273 $183,399
11. SUNY Buffalo 15.6% $467,342 $97,282 $142,663
12. Rochester (Simon) 15.2% $738,250 $141,138 $237,297
12. Cincinnati (Lindner) 15.2% $357,840 $91,662 $115,308
14. Case Western (Weatherhead) 15% $584,986 $125,594 $191,423
15. Ohio State (Fisher) 14.6% $654,333 $138,832 $225,989
16. Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 14.3% $430,669 $119,792 $153,677
17. Brigham Young (Marriott) 14.1% $537,734 $142,942 $196,275
17. Arizona State (Carey) 14.1% $602,627 $147,675 $220,788
19. Washington (Foster) 13.8% $755,974 $180,721 $286,937
20. Howard 13.6% $570,992 $133,217 $222,300
20. Pittsburgh (Katz) 13.6% $539,451 $125,779 $210,103
22. Rochester Tech 13.5% $373,451 $84,631 $145,787
23. William & Mary (Mason) 13.1% $616,927 $142,808 $254,515
24. Houston (Bauer) 13.0% $398,786 $104,292 $166,880
25. Tampa (Sykes) 12.9% $269,571 $87,535 $114,676

Note: Total MBA investment includes tuition, living expenses, foregone earnings, and 10 years worth of interest on student debt.

 

How The Highly Ranked MBA Programs Compare On ROI

School Annual ROI 10-Year Gain Median Starting Pay Total MBA Investment
Stanford 11.9% $1,039,638 $264,874 $502,328
Harvard 10.2% $814,426 $239,199 $493,409
Pennsylvania (Wharton) 9.0% $678,019 $222,028 $494,743
Dartmouth (Tuck) 10.6% $785,130 $221,314 $453,515
Columbia 10.2% $762,182 $216,662 $463,900
Yale 11.9% $822,359 $199,144 $398,201
Duke (Fuqua) 10.3% $662,579 $181,302 $395,782
Cornell (Johnson) 10.4% $685,626 $193,859 $406,730
Virginia (Darden) 11.0% $739,113 $199,048 $402,573
Michigan (Ross) 9.8% $608,555 $183,195 $393,505
NYU (Stern) 9.9% $676,170 $194,845 $473,457
Chicago (Booth) 10.1% $738,325 $220,974 457,353
Northwestern (Kellogg) 9.3% $675,181 $213,749 $473,678
UCLA (Anderson) 9.4% $577,042 $187,140 $397,652
MIT (Sloan) 11.7% $904,444 $229,257 $447,924
UC-Berkeley (Haas) 10.0% $673,778 $206,466 $421,140
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 11.2% $712,946 $184,783 $379,183
Texas-Austin (McCombs) 10.3% $590,555 $184,933/td> $355,343
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 10.3% $575,595 $170,349 $344,559
Indiana (Kelley) 10.8% $492,336 $144,941 $274,942
Emory (Goizueta) 10.7% $625,061 $169,765 $354,152
Georgetown (McDonough) 9.2% $514,648 $160,067 $362,604
Southern California (Marshall) 10.7% $682,896 $183,311 $389,201
Rice (Jones) 10.9% $590,789 $169,262 $326,370
Vanderbilt (Owen) 10.8% $646,954 $189,721 $363,453

Note: Total MBA investment includes tuition, living expenses, foregone earnings, and 10 years worth of interest on student debt.

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