Acceptance Rates & Yield At The Top 100 U.S. MBA Programs by: Marc Ethier on April 27, 2025 April 27, 2025 Copy Link Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email Share on LinkedIn Share on WhatsApp Share on Reddit ADMITS AT THE TOP 100 U.S. MBA PROGRAMS 2023-2024 P&Q 2025 Rank School Admits 2024 Admits 2023 1 Northwestern (Kellogg) 1,492 1,439 2 Stanford GSB 498 521 3 Chicago (Booth) 1,470 1,364 4 Harvard Business School 1,100 1,076 5 Virginia (Darden) 1,129 1,116 6 Dartmouth (Tuck) 851 806 7 Columbia Business School 1,490 1,215 8 Yale SOM 1,021 1,013 9 Cornell (Johnson) 782 764 10 Duke (Fuqua) 744 729 11 New York (Stern) 1,141 966 12 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 1,498 1,533 13 MIT (Sloan) 865 947 14 UCLA (Anderson) 946 881 15 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 505 509 16 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 739 716 17 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 769 667 18 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 820 776 19 Washington (Foster) 362 345 19 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 148 151 21 Washington (Olin) 294 225 22 Southern California (Marshall) 740 724 23 Emory (Goizueta) 509 432 24 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 288 304 25 Georgetown (McDonough) 990 883 26 Rice (Jones) 488 459 27 Georgia (Terry) 173 130 28 Rochester (Simon) 299 241 29 Michigan (Ross) 1,165 1,131 30 Vanderbilt (Owen) 581 566 31 Brigham Young (Marriott) 104 122 32 Arizona State (Carey) 88 89 33 UC-Irvine (Merage) 97 82 34 Indiana (Kelley) 321 318 35 Wisconsin 157 133 36 Boston University (Questrom) 449 412 37 Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 95 109 37 Michigan State (Broad) 158 133 39 William & Mary (Mason) 319 257 40 George Washington 172 143 41 Texas A&M (Mays) 94 119 42 Rutgers Business School 125 114 43 Florida (Warrington) 52 38 44 Fordham (Gabelli) 259 157 45 Southern Methodist (Cox) 224 160 46 Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim) 164 148 47 Minnesota (Carlson) 206 176 48 Babson (Olin) 529 544 49 Maryland (Smith) 185 176 50 Ohio State (Fisher) 113 128 51 Boston (Carroll) 262 221 52 Hult 593 689 53 Utah (Eccles) 157 79 54 Baruch (Zicklin) 80 51 54 TCU (Neeley) 67 56 56 Pittsburgh (Katz) 98 138 57 Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam) 61 54 58 Baylor (Hankamer) 121 78 59 University of Miami (Herbert) 69 67 60 UC-Davis 110 98 61 Tulane (Freeman) 75 67 62 Kentucky (Gatton) 75 76 63 North Carolina State (Poole) NA 49 64 Syracuse (Whitman) 154 104 65 Iowa State (Ivy) 58 49 66 Arizona (Eller) 25 45 67 Colorado (Leeds) 204 188 68 Alabama (Manderson) 222 228 69 Houston (Bauer) NA 40 70 South Carolina (Moore) 41 28 71 Buffalo (SUNY) 195 111 72 Denver (Daniels) 85 73 73 Kansas 45 43 74 Oklahoma (Price) 60 61 75 American (Kogod) 75 NA 76 Case Western (Weatherhead) 135 97 76 Chapman (Argyros) 47 44 76 Lehigh 46 NA 79 Pepperdine (Graziadio) 125 111 80 Mississippi 99 56 81 UMass-Amherst (Isenberg) 48 64 81 Stevens Institute of Technology 147 193 83 Charleston 96 92 84 Arkansas (Walton) 62 59 85 Oklahoma State (Spears) 54 NA 86 UC-San Diego (Rady) 69 129 87 North Carolina A&T (Deese) 115 85 87 Detroit Mercy 37 35 89 Auburn (Harbert) 57 61 90 Rollins (Crummer) NA NA 91 Pace (Lubin) NA 824 92 Rochester (Saunders) 78 99 93 Cincinnati (Lindner) 78 31 94 Temple (Fox) NA 23 95 South Florida (Muma) 35 35 96 Willamette (Atkinson) 80 102 97 Tampa (Sykes) 66 NA 98 Binghamton SUNY 226 NA 99 UC-Riverside 141 NA 100 Hawaii (Shidler) 21 29 Source: U.S. News & World Report See the next page for class sizes at the P&Q top 100 U.S. business schools. Previous Page Continue ReadingPage 5 of 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 © Copyright 2026 Poets & Quants. All rights reserved. This article may not be republished, rewritten or otherwise distributed without written permission. To reprint or license this article or any content from Poets & Quants, please submit your request HERE.