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ACCEPTANCE RATES AT THE TOP 100 U.S. MBA PROGRAMS 2024-2025
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.