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

MBA applications were up in 2023-2024 at 70 of the 100 top-ranked business schools in the United States

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

P&Q 2025 Rank	School	Applications 2024	Applications 2023
1	Northwestern (Kellogg)	5,216	4,316
2	Stanford GSB	7,295	6,190
3	Chicago (Booth)	5,126	4,184
4	Harvard Business School	9,856	8,149
5	Virginia (Darden)	3,327	2,834
6	Dartmouth (Tuck)	2,727	2,009
7	Columbia Business School	7,134	5,430
8	Yale SOM	3,738	3,076
9	Cornell (Johnson)	2,784	2,553
10	Duke (Fuqua)	3,808	3,292
11	New York (Stern)	4,550	3,075
12	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	7,322	6,193
13	MIT (Sloan)	6,125	5,317
14	UCLA (Anderson)	3,079	2,182
15	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	1,897	1,786
16	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	1,952	1,889
17	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	3,044	2,904
18	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	2,224	2,064
19	Washington (Foster)	941	830
19	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	813	777
21	Washington (Olin)	1,603	806
22	Southern California (Marshall)	3,198	3,166
23	Emory (Goizueta)	1,383	1,104
24	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	851	917
25	Georgetown (McDonough)	1,642	1,428
26	Rice (Jones)	1,421	1,178
27	Georgia (Terry)	449	366
28	Rochester (Simon)	2,009	1,692
29	Michigan (Ross)	4,036	2,976
30	Vanderbilt (Owen)	1,513	1,410
31	Brigham Young (Marriott)	178	217
32	Arizona State (Carey)	468	551
33	UC-Irvine (Merage)	364	342
34	Indiana (Kelley)	1,108	1,163
35	Wisconsin	322	268
36	Boston University (Questrom)	1,347	1,146
37	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	286	328
37	Michigan State (Broad)	1,028	766
39	William & Mary (Mason)	570	434
40	George Washington	796	555
41	Texas A&M (Mays)	265	252
42	Rutgers Business School	270	272
43	Florida (Warrington)	185	126
44	Fordham (Gabelli)	442	269
45	Southern Methodist (Cox)	764	665
46	Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)	439	458
47	Minnesota (Carlson)	450	375
48	Babson (Olin)	802	846
49	Maryland (Smith)	560	518
50	Ohio State (Fisher)	1,313	1,053
51	Boston (Carroll)	454	385
52	Hult	1,013	1,068
53	Utah (Eccles)	324	152
54	Baruch (Zicklin)	214	102
54	TCU (Neeley)	332	248
56	Pittsburgh (Katz)	343	400
57	Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)	114	105
58	Baylor (Hankamer)	495	213
59	University of Miami (Herbert)	133	115
60	UC-Davis	325	364
61	Tulane (Freeman)	143	105
62	Kentucky (Gatton)	99	98
63	North Carolina State (Poole)	NA	193
64	Syracuse (Whitman)	212	125
65	Iowa State (Ivy)	71	56
66	Arizona (Eller)	106	144
67	Colorado (Leeds)	278	249
68	Alabama (Manderson)	548	724
69	Houston (Bauer)	NA	119
70	South Carolina (Moore)	155	55
71	Buffalo (SUNY)	303	144
72	Denver (Daniels)	204	113
73	Kansas	63	56
74	Oklahoma (Price)	95	72
75	American (Kogod)	471	NA
76	Case Western (Weatherhead)	273	202
76	Chapman (Argyros)	100	59
76	Lehigh	109	NA
79	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	197	180
80	Mississippi	218	132
81	UMass-Amherst (Isenberg)	326	204
81	Stevens Institute of Technology	436	516
83	Charleston	224	215
84	Arkansas (Walton)	108	103
85	Oklahoma State (Spears)	216	NA
86	UC-San Diego (Rady)	252	294
87	North Carolina A&T (Deese)	122	89
87	Detroit Mercy	38	36
89	Auburn (Harbert)	146	137
90	Rollins (Crummer)	NA	NA
91	Pace (Lubin)	NA	1,839
92	Rochester (Saunders)	113	160
93	Cincinnati (Lindner)	182	97
94	Temple (Fox)	NA	46
95	South Florida (Muma)	71	76
96	Willamette (Atkinson)	81	103
97	Tampa (Sykes)	183	NA
98	Binghamton SUNY	338	NA
99	UC-Riverside	323	NA
100	Hawaii (Shidler)	26	36

Source: U.S. News & World Report

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