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

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MBA APPLICATIONS AT THE TOP 100 U.S. MBA PROGRAMS

P&Q 2026 Rank	School	Applications 2025	Applications 2024	Applications 2023	3-Year Change
1	Northwestern (Kellogg)	5541	5,216	4,316	1,225
2	Harvard Business School	9409	9,856	8,149	1,260
3	Columbia Business School	7123	7,134	5,430	1,693
4	Dartmouth (Tuck)	3267	2,727	2,009	1,258
5	Virginia (Darden)	3452	3,327	2,834	618
6	New York (Stern)	4933	4,550	3,075	1,858
7	Cornell (Johnson)	2972	2,784	2,553	419
8	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	7613	7,322	6,193	1,420
9	Michigan (Ross)	3932	4,036	2,976	956
10	UCLA (Anderson)	3064	3,079	2,182	882
11	MIT (Sloan)	5654	6,125	5,317	337
12	Chicago (Booth)	5876	5,126	4,184	1,692
13	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	2274	1,952	1,889	385
14	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	3442	3,044	2,904	538
15	Duke (Fuqua)	4032	3,808	3,292	740
16	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	2056	1,897	1,786	270
17	Yale SOM	3793	3,738	3,076	717
18	Vanderbilt (Owen)	1562	1,513	1,410	152
19	Washington (Olin)	2161	1,603	806	1355
20	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	894	813	777	117
21	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	2206	2,224	2,064	142
22	Emory (Goizueta)	1356	1,383	1,104	252
23	Washington (Foster)	899	941	830	69
24	Southern California (Marshall)	1914	3,198	3,166	-1,252
25	Georgetown (McDonough)	1617	1,642	1,428	189
26	Stanford GSB	7259	7,295	6,190	1,069
27	Rice (Jones)	1315	1,421	1,178	137
28	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	606	851	917	-311
29	Georgia (Terry)	535	449	366	169
30	Rochester (Simon)	2256	2,009	1,692	564
31	Arizona State (Carey)	424	468	551	-127
32	UC-Irvine (Merage)	425	364	342	83
33	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	265	286	328	-63
34	Boston University (Questrom)	1375	1,347	1,146	229
35	Florida (Hough)	226	185	126	100
36	William & Mary (Mason)	714	570	434	280
37	Brigham Young (Marriott)	253	178	217	36
38	Texas A&M (Mays)	299	265	252	47
39	Indiana (Kelley)	1279	1,108	1,163	116
40	Fordham (Gabelli)	544	442	269	275
41	University of Miami (Herbert)	369	133	115	254
42	Southern Methodist (Cox)	865	764	665	200
43	Minnesota (Carlson)	435	450	375	60
44	Wisconsin	297	322	268	29
45	Babson College (Olin)	860	802	846	14
46	Ohio State (Fisher)	1076	1,313	1,053	23
47	Maryland (Smith)	524	560	518	6
48	Hult International	NA	1,013	1,068	NA
49	Texas Christian (Neeley)	208	332	248	-40
50	Rutgers Business School	327	270	272	55
51	Michigan State (Broad)	894	1,028	766	128
52	Utah (Eccles)	130	324	152	-22
53	Pittsburgh (Katz)	280	343	400	-120
54	Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)	155	114	105	50
55	Boston College (Carroll)	405	454	385	20
56	Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)	1254	439	458	796
57	Baylor (Hankamer)	605	495	213	392
58	American (Kogod)	412	471	NA	NA
59	Tulane (Freeman)	172	143	105	67
60	Syracuse (Whitman)	214	212	125	89
61	Iowa State	83	71	56	27
62	Baruch (Zicklin)	NA	214	102	NA
63	Kentucky (Gatton)	90	99	98	-8
64	Auburn (Harbert)	193	146	137	56
65	Arkansas (Walton)	99	108	103	-4
66	Alabama (Manderson)	359	548	724	-365
67	George Washington	905	796	555	350
68	Cincinnati (Lindner)	157	182	97	60
69	Oklahoma State (Spears)	222	216	NA	NA
70	Buffalo (SUNY)	364	303	144	220
71	Colorado (Leeds)	211	278	249	-38
72	Oklahoma (Price)	98	95	72	26
73	Arizona (Eller)	64	106	144	-80
74	Chapman (Argyros)	89	100	59	30
75	UC-Davis	299	325	364	-65
76	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	231	197	180	51
77	Stevens Institute of Technology	687	436	516	171
78	UC-San Diego (Rady)	260	252	294	-34
79	Texas Tech (Rawls)	74			74
80	South Carolina (Moore)	80	155	55	25
81	Charleston	238	224	215	23
82	Kansas	52	63	56	-4
83	Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg)	207	326	204	3
84	Detroit Mercy	38	38	36	2
85	North Carolina A&T (Deese)	122	122	89	33
86	San Diego (Knauss)	170			170
87	Tampa (Sykes)	211	183	NA	NA
88	Morgan State (Graves)	174			174
89	Willamette (Atkinson)	63	81	103	-40
90	Case Western (Weatherhead)	NA	273	202	NA
90	Mississippi	277			277
90	Rollins (Crummer)	NA	218	132	NA
90	Loyola Maryland (Sellinger)	70	NA	NA	NA
94	NC State (Poole)	471	NA	193	278
94	Pace (Lubin)	877	NA	1,839	-962
96	Johns Hopkins (Carey)	NA			NA
96	Louisiana State (Ourso)	232		177	55
98	Lehigh	155	109	NA	NA
99	Temple (Fox)	NA	NA	46	NA
100	Binghamton (SUNY)	325	338	NA	NA

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