Forbes's Ranking  "The Best Bang for the Buck" 2001

Large US MBA Programs

 

  5-YEAR MBA GAIN YEARS CLASS OF '96 SALARY CLASS OF '02
Rank School total *
($thou)		 as % of
expenses **		 to break
even		 pre-MBA
($thou)		 2000
($thou)		 tuition ***
($thou)		 GMAT
score
1 Harvard $162 115 2.6 $48 $195 $57 700
2 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 142 107 2.9 45 188 58 700
3 Columbia 136 102 3.0 45 202 60 704
4 Dartmouth (Tuck) 119 87 3.0 47 166 59 700
5 Chicago 103 79 3.2 43 170 60 684
6 Yale 97 80 3.0 38 130 57 690
7 Cornell (Johnson) 93 84 2.9 35 118 57 680
8 MIT (Sloan) 92 61 3.4 50 180 60 710
9 Northwestern (Kellogg) 92 68 3.3 47 150 59 700
10 Stanford 91 66 3.3 50 150 60 730
11 Duke (Fuqua) 90 74 3.2 36 132 58 690
12 UCLA (Anderson) 86 74 3.3 48 150 45 700
13 Virginia (Darden) 85 77 3.2 40 135 50 680
14 Carnegie Mellon 82 68 3.4 38 135 55 660
15 UC Berkeley (Haas) 74 65 3.4 47 136 42 690
16 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 72 73 3.3 40 120 43 670
17 SMU (Cox) 72 70 3.4 32 115 49 640
18 Emory (Goizueta) 72 67 3.3 33 110 54 650
19 Michigan 72 59 3.4 40 120 59 675
20 Washington U (Olin) 71 74 3.2 29 98 55 660
21 Rochester (Simon) 70 64 3.4 35 127 55 640
22 NYU (Stern) 60 52 3.7 39 140 58 686
23 Indiana (Kelley) 54 56 3.5 33 98 39 646
24 Georgetown (McDonough) 48 41 3.9 37 119 50 655
25 Vanderbilt (Owen) 42 38 4.0 34 110 54 638
All figures are medians. Five-year figures are before taxes and adjusted for the time value of money. *Compensation after graduation minus the sum of tuition and foregone compensation. **MBA profits divided by the sum of tuition and two years of foregone compensation. ***Two-year tuition for out-of-state students.