Acceptance Rates & Yield At The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs

ACCEPTANCE RATES AT THE TOP 100 U.S. MBA PROGRAMS 2023-2024

P&Q 2025 Rank	School	Acceptance Rate 2024	Acceptance Rate 2023
1	Northwestern (Kellogg)	28.6%	33.3%
2	Stanford GSB	6.8%	8.4%
3	Chicago (Booth)	28.7%	32.6%
4	Harvard Business School	11.2%	13.2%
5	Virginia (Darden)	33.9%	39.4%
6	Dartmouth (Tuck)	31.2%	40.1%
7	Columbia Business School	20.9%	22.4%
8	Yale SOM	27.3%	32.9%
9	Cornell (Johnson)	28.1%	29.9%
10	Duke (Fuqua)	19.5%	22.1%
11	New York (Stern)	25.1%	31.4%
12	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	20.5%	24.8%
13	MIT (Sloan)	14.1%	17.8%
14	UCLA (Anderson)	30.7%	40.4%
15	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	26.6%	28.5%
16	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	37.9%	37.9%
17	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	25.3%	23.0%
18	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	36.9%	37.6%
19	Washington (Foster)	38.5%	41.6%
19	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	18.2%	19.4%
21	Washington (Olin)	18.3%	27.9%
22	Southern California (Marshall)	23.1%	22.9%
23	Emory (Goizueta)	36.8%	39.1%
24	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	33.8%	33.2%
25	Georgetown (McDonough)	60.3%	61.8%
26	Rice (Jones)	34.3%	39.0%
27	Georgia (Terry)	38.5%	35.5%
28	Rochester (Simon)	14.9%	14.2%
29	Michigan (Ross)	28.9%	38.0%
30	Vanderbilt (Owen)	38.4%	40.1%
31	Brigham Young (Marriott)	58.4%	56.2%
32	Arizona State (Carey)	18.8%	16.2%
33	UC-Irvine (Merage)	26.7%	24.0%
34	Indiana (Kelley)	29.0%	27.3%
35	Wisconsin	48.8%	49.6%
36	Boston University (Questrom)	33.3%	36.0%
37	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	33.2%	33.2%
37	Michigan State (Broad)	15.4%	17.4%
39	William & Mary (Mason)	56.0%	59.2%
40	George Washington	21.6%	25.8%
41	Texas A&M (Mays)	35.5%	47.2%
42	Rutgers Business School	46.3%	41.9%
43	Florida (Warrington)	28.1%	30.2%
44	Fordham (Gabelli)	58.6%	58.4%
45	Southern Methodist (Cox)	29.3%	24.1%
46	Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)	37.4%	32.3%
47	Minnesota (Carlson)	45.8%	46.9%
48	Babson (Olin)	66.0%	64.3%
49	Maryland (Smith)	33.0%	34.0%
50	Ohio State (Fisher)	8.6%	12.2%
51	Boston (Carroll)	57.7%	57.4%
52	Hult	58.5%	64.5%
53	Utah (Eccles)	48.5%	52.0%
54	Baruch (Zicklin)	37.4%	50.0%
54	TCU (Neeley)	20.2%	22.6%
56	Pittsburgh (Katz)	28.6%	34.5%
57	Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)	53.5%	51.4%
58	Baylor (Hankamer)	24.4%	36.6%
59	University of Miami (Herbert)	51.9%	58.3%
60	UC-Davis	33.9%	26.9%
61	Tulane (Freeman)	52.5%	63.8%
62	Kentucky (Gatton)	75.8%	77.6%
63	North Carolina State (Poole)	NA	25.4%
64	Syracuse (Whitman)	72.6%	83.2%
65	Iowa State (Ivy)	81.7%	87.5%
66	Arizona (Eller)	23.6%	31.3%
67	Colorado (Leeds)	73.4%	75.5%
68	Alabama (Manderson)	40.5%	31.5%
69	Houston (Bauer)	NA	33.6%
70	South Carolina (Moore)	26.5%	50.9%
71	Buffalo (SUNY)	64.4%	77.1%
72	Denver (Daniels)	41.7%	64.6%
73	Kansas	71.4%	76.8%
74	Oklahoma (Price)	63.2%	84.7%
75	American (Kogod)	15.9%	NA
76	Case Western (Weatherhead)	49.5%	48.0%
76	Chapman (Argyros)	47.0%	74.6%
76	Lehigh	42.2%	NA
79	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	63.5%	61.7%
80	Mississippi	45.4%	42.4%
81	UMass-Amherst (Isenberg)	14.7%	31.4%
81	Stevens Institute of Technology	33.7%	37.4%
83	Charleston	42.9%	42.8%
84	Arkansas (Walton)	57.4%	57.3%
85	Oklahoma State (Spears)	25.0%	NA
86	UC-San Diego (Rady)	27.4%	43.9%
87	North Carolina A&T (Deese)	94.3%	95.5%
87	Detroit Mercy	97.4%	97.2%
89	Auburn (Harbert)	39.0%	44.5%
90	Rollins (Crummer)	NA	NA
91	Pace (Lubin)	NA	44.8%
92	Rochester (Saunders)	69.0%	61.9%
93	Cincinnati (Lindner)	42.9%	32.0%
94	Temple (Fox)	NA	50.0%
95	South Florida (Muma)	49.3%	46.1%
96	Willamette (Atkinson)	98.8%	99.0%
97	Tampa (Sykes)	36.1%	NA
98	Binghamton SUNY	66.9%	NA
99	UC-Riverside (Anderson)	43.7%	NA
100	Hawaii (Shidler)	80.8%	80.6%

Source: U.S. News & World Report

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