Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

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

Across all 100 ranked programs, 3,686 more applications were submitted in the latest cycle than in the previous, a 3% increase.

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on August 02, 2026 | 15 minute read

Inside a Tuck classroom.

ACCEPTANCE RATES AT THE TOP 100 U.S. MBA PROGRAMS 

P&Q 2026 Rank
School
Acceptance Rate 2025
Acceptance Rate 2024
Acceptance Rate 2023
1 Northwestern (Kellogg) 28.10% 28.60% 33.30%
2 Harvard Business School 11.20% 11.20% 13.20%
3 Columbia Business School 25.70% 20.90% 22.40%
4 Dartmouth (Tuck) 28.30% 31.20% 40.10%
5 Virginia (Darden) 30.70% 33.90% 39.40%
6 New York (Stern) 23.60% 25.10% 31.40%
7 Cornell (Johnson) 29.30% 28.10% 29.90%
8 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 18.60% 20.50% 24.80%
9 Michigan (Ross) 30.20% 28.90% 38.00%
10 UCLA (Anderson) 31.00% 30.70% 40.40%
11 MIT (Sloan) 18.80% 14.10% 17.80%
12 Chicago (Booth) 27.30% 28.70% 32.60%
13 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 32.70% 37.90% 37.90%
14 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 21.40% 25.30% 23.00%
15 Duke (Fuqua) 24.00% 19.50% 22.10%
16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 24.30% 26.60% 28.50%
17 Yale SOM 28.50% 27.30% 32.90%
18 Vanderbilt (Owen) 36.20% 38.40% 40.10%
19 Washington (Olin) 17.80% 18.30% 27.90%
20 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 17.80% 18.20% 19.40%
21 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 37.90% 36.90% 37.60%
22 Emory (Goizueta) 33.20% 36.80% 39.10%
23 Washington (Foster) 33.60% 38.50% 41.60%
24 Southern California (Marshall) 31.40% 23.10% 22.90%
25 Georgetown (McDonough) 64.40% 60.30% 61.80%
26 Stanford GSB 6.80% 6.80% 8.40%
27 Rice (Jones) 34.20% 34.30% 39.00%
28 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 33.80% 33.80% 33.20%
29 Georgia (Terry) 23.90% 38.50% 35.50%
30 Rochester (Simon) 13.30% 14.90% 14.20%
31 Arizona State (Carey) 18.45% 18.80% 16.20%
32 UC-Irvine (Merage) 26.40% 26.70% 24.00%
33 Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 35.50% 33.20% 33.20%
34 Boston University (Questrom) 37.20% 33.30% 36.00%
35 Florida (Hough) 13.30% 28.10% 30.20%
36 William & Mary (Mason) 38.00% 56.00% 59.20%
37 Brigham Young (Marriott) 43.90% 58.40% 56.20%
38 Texas A&M (Mays) 24.80% 35.50% 47.20%
39 Indiana (Kelley) 26.60% 29.00% 27.30%
40 Fordham (Gabelli) 67.10% 58.60% 58.40%
41 University of Miami (Herbert) 19.50% 51.90% 58.30%
42 Southern Methodist (Cox) 27.10% 29.30% 24.10%
43 Minnesota (Carlson) 39.50% 45.80% 46.90%
44 Wisconsin 50.20% 48.80% 49.60%
45 Babson College (Olin) 61.60% 66.00% 64.30%
46 Ohio State (Fisher) 13.30% 8.60% 12.20%
47 Maryland (Smith) 37.20% 33.00% 34.00%
48 Hult International 58.50% 58.50% 64.50%
49 Texas Christian (Neeley) 27.40% 20.20% 22.60%
50 Rutgers Business School 45.60% 46.30% 41.90%
51 Michigan State (Broad) 12.40% 15.40% 17.40%
52 Utah (Eccles) 77.70% 48.50% 52.00%
53 Pittsburgh (Katz) 49.30% 28.60% 34.50%
54 Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam) 37.40% 53.50% 51.40%
55 Boston College (Carroll) 54.80% 57.70% 57.40%
56 Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim) 19.40% 37.40% 32.30%
57 Baylor (Hankamer) 25.50% 24.40% 36.60%
58 American (Kogod) 16.00% 15.90% NA
59 Tulane (Freeman) 47.70% 52.50% 63.80%
60 Syracuse (Whitman) 61.20% 72.60% 83.20%
61 Iowa State 73.50% 81.70% 87.50%
62 Baruch (Zicklin) 37.40% 37.40% 50.00%
63 Kentucky (Gatton) 73.30% 75.80% 77.60%
64 Auburn (Harbert) 18.70% 39.00% 44.50%
65 Arkansas (Walton) 29.30% 57.40% 57.30%
66 Alabama (Manderson) 63.20% 40.50% 31.50%
67 George Washington 25.10% 21.60% 25.80%
68 Cincinnati (Lindner) 61.20% 42.90% 32.00%
69 Oklahoma State (Spears) 31.50% 25.00% NA
70 Buffalo (SUNY) 69.50% 64.40% 77.10%
71 Colorado (Leeds) 73.00% 73.40% 75.50%
72 Oklahoma (Price) 51.00% 63.20% 84.70%
73 Arizona (Eller) 45.30% 23.60% 31.30%
74 Chapman (Argyros) 49.40% 47.00% 74.60%
75 UC-Davis 39.50% 33.90% 26.90%
76 Pepperdine (Graziadio) 86.60% 63.50% 61.70%
77 Stevens Institute of Technology 55.90% 33.70% 37.40%
78 UC-San Diego (Rady) 36.50% 27.40% 43.90%
79 Texas Tech (Rawls) 79.70% NA NA
80 South Carolina (Moore) 55.00% 26.50% 50.90%
81 Charleston 33.60% 42.90% 42.80%
82 Kansas 65.40% 71.40% 76.80%
83 Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg) 31.90% 14.70% 31.40%
84 Detroit Mercy 94.70% 97.40% 97.20%
85 North Carolina A&T (Deese) 95.10% 94.30% 95.50%
86 San Diego (Knauss) 83.50% NA NA
87 Tampa (Sykes) 40.30% 36.10% NA
88 Morgan State (Graves) 89.70% NA NA
89 Willamette (Atkinson) 96.80% 98.80% 99.00%
90 Case Western (Weatherhead) 49.50% 49.50% 48.00%
90 Mississippi 48.00% NA NA
90 Rollins (Crummer) NA 45.40% 42.40%
90 Loyola Maryland (Sellinger) 50.00% NA NA
94 NC State (Poole) 22.90% NA 25.40%
94 Pace (Lubin) 68.20% NA 44.80%
96 Johns Hopkins (Carey) NA NA 56.40%
96 Louisiana State (Ourso) 56.50% NA 66.10%
98 Lehigh 40.00% 42.20% NA
99 Temple (Fox) NA NA 50.00%
100 Binghamton (SUNY) 64.90% 66.90% NA

See the next page for yield data for the P&Q top 100 U.S. business schools.

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