Forbes Best American MBA Rankings


Rank	School	Location	5-Year MBA Gain	Pre-MBA Salary	2016 Salary	Tuition	GMAT Score
#1	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	Philadelphia, PA	$97.1 K	$82 K	$225 K	$148 K	730
#2	Stanford	Palo Alto, CA	$92.5 K	$80 K	$215 K	$136 K	740
#3	Harvard	Boston, MA	$89.6 K	$80 K	$212 K	$154 K	730
#4	Northwestern (Kellogg)	Evanston, IL	$84.8 K	$80 K	$195 K	$138 K	730
#5	Dartmouth (Tuck)	Hanover, NH	$81.2 K	$76 K	$200 K	$145 K	720
#6	Columbia	New York, NY	$75.9 K	$75 K	$203 K	$148 K	720
#7	Chicago (Booth)	Chicago, IL	$74.8 K	$81 K	$195 K	$139 K	730
#8	MIT (Sloan)	Cambridge, MA	$72.5 K	$81 K	$201 K	$140 K	730
#9	UC Berkeley (Haas)	Berkeley, CA	$72.4 K	$93 K	$212 K	$113 K	720
#10	Cornell (Johnson)	Ithaca, NY	$70.4 K	$67 K	$172 K	$131 K	700
#11	Virginia (Darden)	Charlottesville, VA	$69.9 K	$73 K	$180 K	$132 K	710
#12	Michigan (Ross)	Ann Arbor, MI	$69.4 K	$70 K	$185 K	$127 K	708
#13	Yale	New Haven, CT	$68.7 K	$65 K	$195 K	$135 K	730
#14	Duke (Fuqua)	Durham, NC	$66.9 K	$71 K	$181 K	$134 K	700
#15	UCLA (Anderson)	Los Angeles, CA	$66.5 K	$73 K	$181 K	$121 K	710
#16	UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	Chapel Hill, NC	$66.2 K	$62 K	$157 K	$121 K	710
#17	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	Austin, TX	$65.8 K	$65 K	$160 K	$100 K	710
#18	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	Pittsburgh, PA	$65.1 K	$64 K	$180 K	$125 K	690
#19	Brigham Young (Marriott)	Provo, UT	$64.4 K	$56 K	$135 K	$50 K	672
#20	Texas A&M (Mays)	College Station, TX	$62.3 K	$52 K	$133 K	$62 K	640
#21	NYU (Stern)	New York, NY	$60.7 K	$70 K	$195 K	$142 K	710
#22	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	South Bend, IN	$58.9 K	$59 K	$150 K	$104 K	700
#23	Emory (Goizueta)	Atlanta, GA	$57.5 K	$68 K	$137 K	$117 K	683
#24	Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI	$56.8 K	$55 K	$130 K	$69 K	670
#25	Indiana (Kelley)	Bloomington, IN	$56.6 K	$56 K	$145 K	$93 K	680
#25	Michigan State (Broad)	East Lansing, MI	$55.6 K	$50 K	$117 K	$95 K	700
#27	Minnesota (Carlson)	Minneapolis, MN	$55.2 K	$63 K	$145 K	$100 K	690
#28	Purdue (Krannert)	West Lafayette, IN	$51.8 K	$46 K	$136 K	$86 K	636
#29	Penn State (Smeal)	University Park, PA	$49.9 K	$50 K	$120 K	$82 K	660
#30	Georgia Tech (Scheller)	Atlanta, GA	$49.8 K	$58 K	$134 K	$73 K	690
#30	Washington (Foster)	Seattle, WA	$49.8 K	$67 K	$150 K	$94 K	700
#32	Rice (Jones)	Houston, TX	$49.5 K	$55 K	$131 K	$115 K	690
#33	USC (Marshall)	Los Angeles, CA	$49.3 K	$63 K	$163 K	$122 K	690
#34	Iowa (Tippie)	Iowa City, IA	$49.1 K	$45 K	$111 K	$80 K	700
#35	Georgetown (McDonough)	Washington, DC	$48.5 K	$63 K	$165 K	$112 K	700
#35	Washington U-St. Louis (Olin)	St. Louis, MO	$48.5 K	$52 K	$131 K	$115 K	700
#37	Rochester (Simon)	Rochester, NY	$48.3 K	$51 K	$129 K	$94 K	680
#38	SMU (Cox)	Dallas, TX	$48.1 K	$53 K	$140 K	$104 K	660
#39	Pittsburgh (Katz)	Pittsburgh, PA	$47.9 K	$40 K	$125 K	$68 K	610
#40	Arizona State (Carey)	Tempe, AZ	$47.8 K	$53 K	$125 K	$89 K	690
#41	UC Irvine (Merage)	Irvine, CA	$47 K	$53 K	$138 K	$102 K	650
#42	Buffalo	Buffalo, NY	$46.5 K	$26 K	$90 K	$54 K	602
#43	Alabama (Manderson)	Tuscaloosa, AL	$45.7 K	$36 K	$96 K	$62 K	690
#44	Rollins (Crummer)	Winter Park, FL	$45.3 K	$26 K	$85 K	$74 K	556
#44	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	Dallas, TX	$45.3 K	$41 K	$109 K	$62 K	680
#46	Maryland (Smith)	College Park, MD	$45 K	$54 K	$141 K	$112 K	650
#47	Ohio State (Fisher)	Columbus, OH	$44.5 K	$48 K	$125 K	$101 K	670
#48	Boston (Questrom)	Boston, MA	$43.7 K	$50 K	$132 K	$103 K	690
#49	Vanderbilt (Owen)	Nashville, TN	$43 K	$61 K	$140 K	$107 K	690
#50	Georgia (Terry)	Athens, GA	$41.8 K	$45 K	$106 K	$68 K	645
#51	Boston College (Carroll)	Chestnut Hill, MA	$39.8 K	$61 K	$150 K	$97 K	680
#52	Rutgers	Newark, NJ	$38.7 K	$47 K	$132 K	$96 K	650
#53	Case Western (Weatherhead)	Cleveland, OH	$37.8 K	$48 K	$115 K	$76 K	650
#54	Tennessee (Haslam)	Knoxville, TN	$35.5 K	$49 K	$118 K	$67 K	630
#54	Willamette (Atkinson)	Salem, OR	$35.5 K	$26 K	$84 K	$80 K	550
#56	Missouri (Trulaske)	Columbia, MO	$35 K	$30 K	$84 K	$61 K	610
#57	Babson (Olin)	Wellesley, MA	$32.9 K	$58 K	$147 K	$107 K	640
#58	William & Mary (Mason)	Williamsburg, VA	$32 K	$44 K	$116 K	$87 K	622
#59	Connecticut	Storrs, CT	$30.6 K	$50 K	$125 K	$72 K	640
#60	Temple (Fox)	Philadelphia, PA	$26.2 K	$50 K	$116 K	$86 K	639
#61	Tulane (Freeman)	New Orleans, LA	$25.7 K	$50 K	$120 K	$111 K	650
#62	Miami	Coral Gables, FL	$24.4 K	$40 K	$112 K	$97 K	654
#63	UC Davis	Davis, CA	$24.2 K	$49 K	$135 K	$102 K	680
#64	Arizona (Eller)	Tucson, AZ	$23.9 K	$46 K	$105 K	$92 K	660
#65	Pepperdine (Graziadio)	Los Angeles, CA	$23 K	$44 K	$115 K	$97 K	645
#66	Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim)	Boston, MA	$15.9 K	$44 K	$104 K	$94 K	640
#67	American (Kogod)	Washington, DC	$10.7 K	$48 K	$112 K	$80 K	550
#68	Oregon (Lundquist)	Eugene, OR	$9 K	$45 K	$95 K	$81 K	624
#69	Colorado (Leeds)	Boulder, CO	$6.9 K	$52 K	$110 K	$70 K	600
#70	Fordham (Gabelli)	New York, NY	$4.9 K	$45 K	$116 K	$88 K	640

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