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Hello GMAT Club,

We have revamped this topic: Created separate tables part time, Executive mba, and international bschools, Introduced some cool new stats/comparions such as Salary to Debt ratios at US schools, Most competitive schools in T10/20/50, etc. Tell us what you feel about the new structure, anything we can include in the comparison, etc.
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Salary to Debt Ratios of Top American Business Schools


Data Source: US News MBA Rankings 2019

SchoolSalary to Debt RatioAvg Base Salary after MBAAvg Indebtness of Students
Stanford GSB1.7$144KU$87K
Emory Goizueta1.6$120K$74K
Harvard1.6$137K$87K
UCLA Anderson1.4$120K$85K
McCombs1.4$116K$83K
Berkeley Haas1.4$126K$91K
UVA Darden1.2$125K$105K
Michigan Ross1.2$125K$107K
MIT Sloan1.2$128K$110K
UNC Kenan-Flagler1.2$111K$96K
Yale SOM1.1$119K$105K
Duke Fuqua1.1$123K$115K
NYU Stern1.0$121K$121K


Hi Narenn,

This is really nice. Have never seen anything similar to this on internet. Was just inquisitive what is indebtness and how you are calculating it. Whatg I have observed higher ranked schools have higher tution fees and hence the overall expenses. But in this table indebtness of Stanford is much less than Fuqua for eg. Are you subtracting the internship cost or is there anything else?

Cost of attendance in most of the top 15 schools is in excess of $ 200K. How for most of the schools the indebtness is so less?
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Hi bb / Narenn,

Just inquisitive what exactly is the acceptance rate. Is it class size/no of applicants or class size/no of candidates interviewed?

In case of Fuqua class size is 430+ and no of applicants is 3400+. This will be acceptance rate of around 11%. Not sure how does it reach 22%. Also as per this table no of applicants to Kellogg will come out to be 2390.

Will help if you can suggest how this is calculated. Thanks.

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Data Source: US News 2019 MBA Rankings.
Top US Business Schools: Class Profiles and Comparison
SchoolClass SizeAcceptance rateAvg GMATAvg AgeAvg GPAEmployed @ 3 MonthsAvg Salary
Harvard92810%731273.7189%$137K
Chicago Booth58224%730283.6195%$129K
Wharton86319%730283.693%$136K
Stanford GSB4186%737N/A3.7488%$144K
MIT Sloan40412%722283.5794%$128K
Kellogg47820%732273.693%$128K
Berkeley Haas28213%725283.7190%$126K
Michigan Ross42225%716283.4694%$125K
Columbia54914%727283.689%$128K
Tuck29323%722283.5292%$128K
Duke Fuqua43322%702293.593%$123K
Yale SOM34817%727283.6791%$119K
NYU Stern39921%714283.4891%$121K
UVA Darden32625%713273.590%$125K
Cornell Johnson27730%700283.3691%$126K
UCLA Anderson36322%715283.5288%$120K
CMU Tepper22030%691293.389%$119K
McCombs26528%703293.4890%$116K
UNC Kenan-Flagler29137%701283.3891%$111K
Emory Goizueta17235%682283.393%$120K
USC Marshall22529%703283.4894%$118K
UW Foster9022%693283.3998%$120K
Rice Jones11827%711293.3494%$113K
Olin (St. Louis)14540%694283.597%$107K
McDonough27648%692283.3792%$113K
Vanderbilt Owen17243%688283.3191%$113K
Kelley (Indiana)20435%677283.3887%$101K
Scheller (Georgia Tech)8131%680283.493%$106K
WP Carey (Arizona State)10924%682293.5196%$99K
Carlson (Minnesota)8837%676293.3596%$106K
Fisher (Ohio State)9137%670283.4794%$96K
Smeal (Penn State)5917%661293.4792%$105K
Mendoza (Notre Dame)13142%674273.2786%$107K
Hough (Florida)2615%682273.4390%$101K
Marriott (Brigham Young)13747%680303.4989%$103K
Mays (Texas A&M) 5834%638293.2790%$106K
Broad (Michigan State)7433%674283.385%$102K
UC Davis4737%669293.3691%$96K
Madison (Wisconsin)10430%678283.3586%$97K
Terry (Georgia)5537%647273.4693%$90K
Naveen Jindal (UT Dallas)5324%678283.590%$88K
Questrom (Boston University)16440%680273.3391%$95K
Merage (UC Irvine)8725%654293.4687%$98K
Rutgers4937%673293.2189%$98K
Simon (Rochester) 8430%666283.494%$102K
University of Tennessee (Haslam)5851%656273.4888%$89K
University of Utah (Eccles)6144%637283.4991%$88K
Carroll (Boston College)8040%637283.2885%$101K
SMU Cox10746%660293.3387%$98K
Illinois (Urbana Champaign)4931%647273.2980%$95K
Smith (Maryland)9936%629293.2680%$101K
Katz (Pittsburgh)7033%608273.4190%$88K
Krannert (Purdue)4537%632293.1988%$91K
Neeley (Texas Christian)4754%678293.3485%$93K
Case Western (Weatherhead)5470%612273.190%$81K
Mason (William and Mary)11060%617313.3386%$85K
Baruch College (Zicklin)4738%619303.3190%$81K
Isenberg (UMass at Amherst)3033%659293.4476%$78K
Hankamer (Baylor)4651%628253.3593%$73K
George Washington 8254%645283.383%$88K
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Hi bb / Narenn,

Just inquisitive what exactly is the acceptance rate. Is it class size/no of applicants or class size/no of candidates interviewed?

In case of Fuqua class size is 430+ and no of applicants is 3400+. This will be acceptance rate of around 11%. Not sure how does it reach 22%. Also as per this table no of applicants to Kellogg will come out to be 2390.

Will help if you can suggest how this is calculated. Thanks.

Happy to help. Here is how it is possible: not everyone Fuqua Admits goes to Fuqua. Thus they have to admit a lot more than 430 people to get 430 people to matriculate. This is called "Yield" - seems it is around 50% at Fuqua based on your numbers.
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SchoolSalary to Debt RatioAvg Base Salary after MBAAvg Indebtness of Students
Stanford GSB1.7$144KU$87K
Hi Narenn,

This is really nice. Have never seen anything similar to this on internet. Was just inquisitive what is indebtness and how you are calculating it. Whatg I have observed higher ranked schools have higher tution fees and hence the overall expenses. But in this table indebtness of Stanford is much less than Fuqua for eg. Are you subtracting the internship cost or is there anything else?

Cost of attendance in most of the top 15 schools is in excess of $ 200K. How for most of the schools the indebtness is so less?

Good day GoodGuy! :-)

Firstly, We have not calculated these Avg indebtedness figures. We took them from US News rankings. IMO, indebtedness refers to the amount of money an average student of a particular bschool borrows to meet his/her MBA expenses at that school. US News is not clear on whether these figures include only the official borrowings i.e. loans or it considers unofficial borrowings as well i.e. Borrowings from relatives or from sources other than banks, etc.

Indebtedness of a bschool could be higher or lower based on how much students of that school rely on borrowings. e.g. Stanford's indebtedness is lower than that of Fuqua probably because greater part of the bschool funding of Stanford students come from personal savings and/or scholarships.
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Happy to help. Here is how it is possible: not everyone Fuqua Admits goes to Fuqua. Thus they have to admit a lot more than 430 people to get 430 people to matriculate. This is called "Yield" - seems it is around 50% at Fuqua based on your numbers.

Oh I wasn't aware of that. So is the below working corrected?

No. of applicants - 3483

Offered Admission - 766

Accepted admission(class size) - 433
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Good day GoodGuy! :-)

Firstly, We have not calculated these Avg indebtedness figures. We took them from US News rankings. IMO, indebtedness refers to the amount of money an average student of a particular bschool borrows to meet his/her MBA expenses at that school. US News is not clear on whether these figures include only the official borrowings i.e. loans or it considers unofficial borrowings as well i.e. Borrowings from relatives or from sources other than banks, etc.

Indebtedness of a bschool could be higher or lower based on how much students of that school rely on borrowings. e.g. Stanford's indebtedness is lower than that of Fuqua probably because greater part of the bschool funding of Stanford students come from personal savings and/or scholarships.

Thanks Narenn. In that case there is nothing much anyone can do about it. It depends on the economic condition of the coming batch and hence can swing dramatically. The important figure here is the post MBA salary figure. Nevertheless, an interesting thing to look at.
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Any changes to these stats wrt to the New us rankings?
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Any changes to these stats wrt to the New us rankings?

Yeah.. we will upload new stats on this weekend.
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Yeah.. we will upload new stats on this weekend.

Look forward to it :)
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Hi Eveyone, Just updated the first post with latest full-time MBA stats. https://gmatclub.com/forum/all-school-s ... l#p1318409
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Narenn Hi, the % for Employed after 3 months stat for Queen's University is actually 93%.
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Narenn Hi, the % for Employed after 3 months stat for Queen's University is actually 93%.

Hi carloslopezs94,

Yes, but the figures you see in the stats table are from last year. We haven't updated the table with latest figures yet as we are waiting for a few schools to release their latest stats. I will update the table in next 3-5 days with new stats.

Have a great weekend!
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Update May 2, 2019: International MBA stats updated. See the latest stats here
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thanks for the post. It helped
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Hello , can you post about rankings and all of colleges of Master's In Management degree just like MBA ??
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So helpful! Update due for this year?
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When is this table expected to be updated again? Thank you. bb
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