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

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

P&Q 2025 Rank	School	Yield 2024	Yield 2023
1	Northwestern (Kellogg)	35.1%	36.8%
2	Stanford GSB	85.1%	82.7%
3	Chicago (Booth)	48.5%	48.2%
4	Harvard Business School	84.5%	87.2%
5	Virginia (Darden)	31.4%	31.5%
6	Dartmouth (Tuck)	34.8%	36.8%
7	Columbia Business School	51.0%	56.2%
8	Yale SOM	34.0%	33.5%
9	Cornell (Johnson)	36.1%	37.0%
10	Duke (Fuqua)	57.4%	52.8%
11	New York (Stern)	30.9%	33.9%
12	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	57.8%	57.0%
13	MIT (Sloan)	50.1%	43.2%
14	UCLA (Anderson)	32.2%	33.6%
15	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	30.9%	33.6%
16	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	34.5%	33.7%
17	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	38.4%	36.6%
18	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	30.4%	32.6%
19	Washington (Foster)	32.6%	32.2%
19	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	48.0%	46.4%
21	Washington (Olin)	35.0%	36.9%
22	Southern California (Marshall)	28.5%	27.5%
23	Emory (Goizueta)	25.1%	28.9%
24	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	30.9%	34.2%
25	Georgetown (McDonough)	26.6%	29.2%
26	Rice (Jones)	32.4%	34.2%
27	Georgia (Terry)	58.4%	50.0%
28	Rochester (Simon)	29.8%	34.0%
29	Michigan (Ross)	34.0%	33.2%
30	Vanderbilt (Owen)	30.1%	28.3%
31	Brigham Young (Marriott)	81.7%	81.1%
32	Arizona State (Carey)	63.6%	62.9%
33	UC-Irvine (Merage)	47.4%	43.9%
34	Indiana (Kelley)	32.1%	30.2%
35	Wisconsin	56.1%	51.9%
36	Boston University (Questrom)	26.9%	27.4%
37	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	47.4%	42.2%
37	Michigan State (Broad)	44.9%	47.4%
39	William & Mary (Mason)	22.2%	35.0%
40	George Washington	23.3%	34.3%
41	Texas A&M (Mays)	38.3%	47.9%
42	Rutgers Business School	24.8%	29.8%
43	Florida (Warrington)	61.5%	47.4%
44	Fordham (Gabelli)	41.7%	37.6%
45	Southern Methodist (Cox)	37.5%	46.3%
46	Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)	33.5%	45.9%
47	Minnesota (Carlson)	43.9%	49.4%
48	Babson (Olin)	27.0%	31.4%
49	Maryland (Smith)	36.2%	31.3%
50	Ohio State (Fisher)	41.6%	38.3%
51	Boston (Carroll)	35.5%	38.9%
52	Hult	29.2%	25.1%
53	Utah (Eccles)	33.8%	36.7%
54	Baruch (Zicklin)	36.3%	51.0%
54	TCU (Neeley)	56.7%	60.7%
56	Pittsburgh (Katz)	32.7%	29.0%
57	Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)	67.2%	77.8%
58	Baylor (Hankamer)	66.1%	75.6%
59	University of Miami (Herbert)	44.9%	40.3%
60	UC-Davis	39.1%	37.8%
61	Tulane (Freeman)	40.0%	41.8%
62	Kentucky (Gatton)	75.7%	76.3%
63	North Carolina State (Poole)	NA	46.9%
64	Syracuse (Whitman)	21.4%	35.6%
65	Iowa State (Ivy)	55.2%	71.4%
66	Arizona (Eller)	68.0%	62.2%
67	Colorado (Leeds)	35.8%	35.1%
68	Alabama (Manderson)	90.5%	85.5%
69	Houston (Bauer)	NA	25.0%
70	South Carolina (Moore)	65.9%	71.4%
71	Buffalo (SUNY)	38.5%	46.8%
72	Denver (Daniels)	31.8%	42.5%
73	Kansas	66.7%	69.8%
74	Oklahoma (Price)	58.3%	63.9%
75	American (Kogod)	28.0%	NA
76	Case Western (Weatherhead)	34.8%	19.6%
76	Chapman (Argyros)	36.2%	59.1%
76	Lehigh	43.5%	NA
79	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	31.2%	36.0%
80	Mississippi	51.5%	75.0%
81	UMass-Amherst (Isenberg)	33.3%	67.2%
81	Stevens Institute of Technology	12.9%	18.7%
83	Charleston	58.3%	62.0%
84	Arkansas (Walton)	72.6%	66.1%
85	Oklahoma State (Spears)	77.8%	NA
86	UC-San Diego (Rady)	52.2%	29.5%
87	North Carolina A&T (Deese)	51.3%	64.7%
87	Detroit Mercy	54.1%	37.1%
89	Auburn (Harbert)	78.9%	77.0%
90	Rollins (Crummer)	NA	NA
91	Pace (Lubin)	NA	14.8%
92	Rochester (Saunders)	46.2%	50.5%
93	Cincinnati (Lindner)	48.7%	74.2%
94	Temple (Fox)	NA	13.0%
95	South Florida (Muma)	80.0%	82.9%
96	Willamette (Atkinson)	48.8%	44.1%
97	Tampa (Sykes)	65.2%	NA
98	Binghamton SUNY	79.6%	NA
99	UC-Riverside	29.1%	NA
100	Hawaii (Shidler)	76.2%	69.0%

Source: U.S. News & World Report

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