Undergraduate GPA: The Score You Need To Get Into A Top-50 U.S. MBA Program

Undergraduate GPA: What It Takes To Get Into A Top-50 U.S. MBA Program

PERCENTAGE OF NEW ENTRANTS PROVIDING GPA SCORES – U.S. TOP-50 SCHOOLS

2025 P&Q Rank School % of New Entrants Providing GPA Scores
1 Northwestern (Kellogg) 60%
2 Stanford GSB 54%
3 Chicago (Booth) 69%
4 Harvard Business School 100%
5 Virginia (Darden) 74%
6 Dartmouth (Tuck) 61%
7 Columbia Business School 100%
8 Yale SOM 63%
9 Cornell (Johnson) 77%
10 Duke (Fuqua) 62%
11 New York (Stern) 66%
12 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 100%
13 MIT (Sloan) 69%
14 UCLA (Anderson) 100%
15 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 100%
16 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 74%
17 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 55%
18 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 54%
19 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 77%
19 Washington (Foster) 100%
21 Washington (Olin) 48%
22 Southern California (Marshall) 63%
23 Emory (Goizueta) 53%
24 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 63%
25 Georgetown (McDonough) 100%
26 Rice (Jones) 100%
27 Georgia (Terry) 85%
28 Rochester (Simon) 54%
29 Michigan (Ross) 55%
30 Vanderbilt (Owen) 62%
31 Brigham Young (Marriott) 100%
32 Arizona State (Carey) 100%
33 UC-Irvine (Merage) 100%
34 Indiana (Kelley) 66%
35 Wisconsin 87%
36 Boston University (Questrom) 61%
37 Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 100%
37 Michigan State (Broad) 100%
39 William & Mary (Mason) 100%
40 George Washington 100%
41 Texas A&M (Mays) 100%
42 Rutgers Business School 61%
43 Florida (Warrington) 81%
44 Fordham (Gabelli) 50%
45 Southern Methodist (Cox) 75%
46 Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim) 100%
47 Minnesota (Carlson) 79%
48 Babson College (Olin) 90%
49 Maryland (Smith) 100%
50 Ohio State (Fisher) 62%
51 Boston College (Carroll) 88%
53 Utah (Eccles) 92%
56 Pittsburgh (Katz) 53%
57 Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam) 100%
59 University of Miami 100%
60 UC-Davis 100%
68 Alabama (Manderson) 100%
Source: U.S. News & World Report

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