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

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ADMITS AT THE TOP 100 U.S. MBA PROGRAMS

P&Q 2026 Rank	School	Admits 2025	Admits 2024	Admits 2023	3-Year Change
1	Northwestern (Kellogg)	1555	1,492	1,439	116
2	Harvard Business School	1054	1,100	1,076	-22
3	Columbia Business School	1832	1,490	1,215	617
4	Dartmouth (Tuck)	924	851	806	118
5	Virginia (Darden)	1061	1,129	1,116	-55
6	New York (Stern)	1162	1,141	966	196
7	Cornell (Johnson)	871	782	764	107
8	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	1416	1,498	1,533	-117
9	Michigan (Ross)	1188	1,165	1,131	57
10	UCLA (Anderson)	950	946	881	69
11	MIT (Sloan)	1060	865	947	113
12	Chicago (Booth)	1604	1,470	1,364	240
13	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	744	739	716	28
14	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	738	769	667	71
15	Duke (Fuqua)	969	744	729	240
16	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	500	505	509	-9
17	Yale SOM	1082	1,021	1,013	69
18	Vanderbilt (Owen)	566	581	566	0
19	Washington (Olin)	385	294	225	160
20	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	159	148	151	8
21	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	837	820	776	61
22	Emory (Goizueta)	450	509	432	18
23	Washington (Foster)	302	362	345	-43
24	Southern California (Marshall)	600	740	724	-124
25	Georgetown (McDonough)	1042	990	883	159
26	Stanford GSB	494	498	521	-27
27	Rice (Jones)	450	488	459	-9
28	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	205	288	304	-99
29	Georgia (Terry)	128	173	130	-2
30	Rochester (Simon)	299	299	241	58
31	Arizona State (Carey)	78	88	89	-11
32	UC-Irvine (Merage)	112	97	82	30
33	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	94	95	109	-15
34	Boston University (Questrom)	511	449	412	99
35	Florida (Hough)	30	52	38	-8
36	William & Mary (Mason)	271	319	257	14
37	Brigham Young (Marriott)	111	104	122	-11
38	Texas A&M (Mays)	74	94	119	-45
39	Indiana (Kelley)	340	321	318	22
40	Fordham (Gabelli)	365	259	157	208
41	University of Miami (Herbert)	72	69	67	5
42	Southern Methodist (Cox)	234	224	160	74
43	Minnesota (Carlson)	172	206	176	-4
44	Wisconsin	149	157	133	16
45	Babson College (Olin)	530	529	544	-14
46	Ohio State (Fisher)	143	113	128	15
47	Maryland (Smith)	195	185	176	19
48	Hult International	NA	593	689	NA
49	Texas Christian (Neeley)	57	67	56	1
50	Rutgers Business School	149	125	114	35
51	Michigan State (Broad)	111	158	133	-22
52	Utah (Eccles)	101	157	79	22
53	Pittsburgh (Katz)	138	98	138	0
54	Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam)	58	61	54	4
55	Boston College (Carroll)	222	262	221	1
56	Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim)	243	164	148	95
57	Baylor (Hankamer)	154	121	78	76
58	American (Kogod)	66	75	NA	NA
59	Tulane (Freeman)	82	75	67	15
60	Syracuse (Whitman)	131	154	104	27
61	Iowa State	61	58	49	12
62	Baruch (Zicklin)	NA	80	51	NA
63	Kentucky (Gatton)	66	75	76	-10
64	Auburn (Harbert)	36	57	61	-25
65	Arkansas (Walton)	29	62	59	-30
66	Alabama (Manderson)	227	222	228	-1
67	George Washington	227	172	143	84
68	Cincinnati (Lindner)	96	78	31	65
69	Oklahoma State (Spears)	70	54	NA	NA
70	Buffalo (SUNY)	253	195	111	142
71	Colorado (Leeds)	154	204	188	-34
72	Oklahoma (Price)	50	60	61	-11
73	Arizona (Eller)	29	25	45	-16
74	Chapman (Argyros)	44	47	44	0
75	UC-Davis	118	110	98	20
76	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	200	125	111	89
77	Stevens Institute of Technology	384	147	193	191
78	UC-San Diego (Rady)	95	69	129	-34
79	Texas Tech (Rawls)	59	NA	NA	NA
80	South Carolina (Moore)	44	41	28	16
81	Charleston	80	96	92	-12
82	Kansas	34	45	43	-9
83	Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg)	66	48	64	2
84	Detroit Mercy	36	37	35	1
85	North Carolina A&T (Deese)	116	115	85	31
86	San Diego (Knauss)	142	NA	NA	NA
87	Tampa (Sykes)	85	66	NA	NA
88	Morgan State (Graves)	156	NA	NA	NA
89	Willamette (Atkinson)	61	80	102	-41
90	Case Western (Weatherhead)	NA	135	97	NA
90	Mississippi	133	NA	NA	NA
90	Rollins (Crummer)	NA	99	56	NA
90	Loyola Maryland (Sellinger)	35	NA	NA	NA
94	NC State (Poole)	108	NA	49	59
94	Pace (Lubin)	598	NA	824	-226
96	Johns Hopkins (Carey)	NA	NA	NA	NA
96	Louisiana State (Ourso)	131	NA	117	14
98	Lehigh	62	46	NA	NA
99	Temple (Fox)	NA	NA	23	NA
100	Binghamton (SUNY)	211	226	NA	NA

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