The MBA Price Tag: 21 Of The Top 25 U.S. B-Schools Now Charge $100K A Year Or More

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TUITION AT THE LEADING U.S. MBA PROGRAMS, 2021-2025

2025 P&Q Rank School 2025 Tuition 2024 Tuition 2023 Tuition 2022 Tuition 2021 Tuition 2-Year Change 2-Year % 5-Year Change 5-Year %
7 Columbia Business School $‎ 91,172 $‎ 88,300 $‎ 84,496 $‎ 80,542 $‎ 77,376 $‎ 2,872 3.3% $‎ 13,796 17.8%
11 New York (Stern) $‎ 89,254 $‎ 84,180 $‎ 82,326 $‎ 82,326 $‎ 78,700 $‎ 5,074 6.0% $‎ 10,554 13.4%
17 UC-Berkeley (Haas) $‎ 89,033 $‎ 82,059 $‎ 76,433 $‎ 76,187 $‎ 71,817 $‎ 6,974 8.5% $‎ 17,216 24.0%
13 MIT (Sloan) $‎ 89,000 $‎ 86,550 $‎ 84,200 $‎ 80,400 $‎ 78,954 $‎ 2,450 2.8% $‎ 10,046 12.7%
12 Pennsylvania (Wharton) $‎ 87,970 $‎ 84,830 $‎ 87,370 $‎ 84,874 $‎ 76,000 $‎ 3,140 3.7% $‎ 11,970 15.8%
8 Yale SOM $‎ 87,800 $‎ 84,900 $‎ 82,700 $‎ 79,000 $‎ 74,500 $‎ 2,900 3.4% $‎ 13,300 17.9%
3 Chicago (Booth) $‎ 87,354 $‎ 84,198 $‎ 80,961 $‎ 77,841 $‎ 74,919 $‎ 3,156 3.7% $‎ 12,435 16.6%
9 Cornell (Johnson) $‎ 86,596 $‎ 83,106 $‎ 79,910 $‎ 76,690 $‎ 74,026 $‎ 3,490 4.2% $‎ 12,570 17.0%
1 Northwestern (Kellogg) $‎ 86,370 $‎ 83,610 $‎ 81,015 $‎ 78,276 $‎ 76,368 $‎ 2,760 3.3% $‎ 10,002 13.1%
2 Stanford GSB $‎ 85,755 $‎ 82,455 $‎ 79,860 $‎ 76,950 $‎ 74,706 $‎ 3,300 4.0% $‎ 11,049 14.8%
5 Virginia (Darden) $‎ 84,598 $‎ 81,700 $‎ 78,600 $‎ 75,200 $‎ 72,600 $‎ 2,898 3.5% $‎ 11,998 16.5%
6 Dartmouth (Tuck) $‎ 84,250 $‎ 80,620 $‎ 77,520 $‎ 77,520 $‎ 77,520 $‎ 3,630 4.5% $‎ 6,730 8.7%
22 Southern California (Marshall) $‎ 83,853 $‎ 79,893 $‎ 72,501 $‎ 69,036 $‎ 53,806 $‎ 3,960 5.0% $‎ 30,047 55.8%
15 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) $‎ 81,340 $‎ 78,362 $‎ 75,712 $‎ 72,800 $‎ 70,000 $‎ 2,978 3.8% $‎ 11,340 16.2%
29 Michigan (Ross) $‎ 81,152 $‎ 75,392 $‎ 73,196 $‎ 73,196 $‎ 72,114 $‎ 5,760 7.6% $‎ 9,038 12.5%
10 Duke (Fuqua) $‎ 81,000 $‎ 77,925 $‎ 75,000 $‎ 71,750 $‎ 70,000 $‎ 3,075 3.9% $‎ 11,000 15.7%
14 UCLA (Anderson) $‎ 79,452 $‎ 78,268 $‎ 74,618 $‎ 71,071 $‎ 67,737 $‎ 1,184 1.5% $‎ 11,715 17.3%
4 Harvard Business School $‎ 78,700 $‎ 76,410 $‎ 74,910 $‎ 73,440 $‎ 73,440 $‎ 2,290 3.0% $‎ 5,260 7.2%
23 Emory (Goizueta) $‎ 76,900 $‎ 74,000 $‎ 71,900 $‎ 70,200 $‎ 70,741 $‎ 2,900 3.9% $‎ 6,159 8.7%
26 Rice (Jones) $‎ 76,073 $‎ 73,500 $‎ 69,000 $‎ 66,000 $‎ 63,500 $‎ 2,573 3.5% $‎ 12,573 19.8%
30 Vanderbilt (Owen) $‎ 74,500 $‎ 71,250 $‎ 68,500 $‎ 65,500 $‎ 62,750 $‎ 3,250 4.6% $‎ 11,750 18.7%
18 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) $‎ 74,138 $‎ 71,956 $‎ 71,364 $‎ 68,112 $‎ 66,840 $‎ 2,182 3.0% $‎ 7,298 10.9%
24 Notre Dame (Mendoza) $‎ 73,260 $‎ 71,126 $‎ 64,660 $‎ 61,000 $‎ 58,030 $‎ 2,134 3.0% $‎ 15,230 26.2%
21 Washington (Olin) $‎ 70,250 $‎ 68,200 $‎ 64,250 $‎ 64,250 $‎ 64,250 $‎ 2,050 3.0% $‎ 6,000 9.3%
25 Georgetown (McDonough) $‎ 70,108 $‎ 67,184 $‎ 64,600 $‎ 62,370 $‎ 60,894 $‎ 2,924 4.4% $‎ 9,214 15.1%
16 Texas-Austin (McCombs) $‎ 61,214 $‎ 59,684 $‎ 58,270 $‎ 58,270 $‎ 58,270 $‎ 1,530 2.6% $‎ 2,944 5.1%
19 Washington (Foster) $‎ 59,574 $‎ 57,831 $‎ 57,846 $‎ 56,127 $‎ 53,601 $‎ 1,743 3.0% $‎ 5,973 11.1%
34 Indiana (Kelley) $‎ 55,695 $‎ 55,695 $‎ 54,602 $‎ 53,553 $‎ 52,483 $‎ 0 0% $‎ 3,212 6.1%
19 Georgia Tech (Scheller)* $‎ 43,646 $‎ 42,790 $‎ 40,752 $‎ 40,752 $‎ 40,752 $‎ 856 2.0% $‎ 2,894 7.1%
*For domestic, out-of-state students; tuition for international students is $44,912
Source: Business schools

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