Top MBA programs by state
Location shapes recruiting more than most applicants expect: on-campus recruiting leans toward employers within a few hours' travel. These are the top-25 composite-ranked programs grouped by state.
California
- Stanford Graduate School of Business · Stanford · #1 composite · tuition $89,187
- Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley · Berkeley · #6 composite · tuition $89,033
- UCLA Anderson School of Management · Los Angeles · #16 composite · tuition $82,734
- USC Marshall School of Business · Los Angeles · #22 composite · tuition $86,295
Connecticut
- Yale School of Management · New Haven · #14 composite · tuition $90,900
District of Columbia
- McDonough School of Business · Washington · #25 composite · tuition $75,016
Georgia
- Goizueta Business School · Atlanta · #24 composite · tuition $79,200
Illinois
- Kellogg School of Management · Evanston · #5 composite · tuition $88,536
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business · Chicago · #7 composite · tuition $89,976
Indiana
- Kelley School of Business · Bloomington · #18 composite · tuition $29,573
Massachusetts
- MIT Sloan School of Management · Cambridge · #3 composite · tuition $91,892
- Harvard Business School · Boston · #4 composite · tuition $84,760
Michigan
- Ross School of Business · Ann Arbor · #15 composite · tuition $83,946
New Hampshire
- Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth · Hanover · #11 composite · tuition $87,536
New York
- Columbia Business School · New York · #8 composite · tuition $93,908
- Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management · Ithaca · #9 composite · tuition $88,934
- NYU Stern School of Business · New York · #13 composite · tuition $92,658
North Carolina
- Fuqua School of Business · Durham · #12 composite · tuition $83,700
- Kenan-Flagler Business School · Chapel Hill · #21 composite · tuition $55,470
Pennsylvania
- The Wharton School · Philadelphia · #2 composite · tuition $87,970
- Tepper School of Business · Pittsburgh · #17 composite · tuition $84,186
Tennessee
- Owen Graduate School of Management · Nashville · #23 composite · tuition $76,700
Texas
- McCombs School of Business · Austin · #19 composite · tuition $55,196
Virginia
- Darden School of Business · Charlottesville · #10 composite · tuition $88,000
Washington
- Foster School of Business · Seattle · #20 composite · tuition $60,180