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

Regional 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 Brigham Young (Marriott) $82 123% 2.5 $26 $92 $18 640
2 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 74 92 3.0 35 104 31 687
3 Wake Forest (Babcock) 73 80 3.2 26 102 45 645
4 Michigan State (Broad) 71 90 3.1 28 98 32 650
5 Iowa (Tippie) 71 101 3.0 26 90 28 640
6 Rice (Jones) 71 75 3.3 32 105 41 640
7 Purdue (Krannert) 70 80 3.1 33 106 37 640
8 Tulane (Freeman) 70 77 3.0 26 98 48 657
9 Arizona (Eller) 69 92 3.0 32 97 32 655
10 Ohio State (Fisher) 64 81 3.2 29 94 40 650
11 Minnesota (Carlson) 55 63 3.3 32 91 35 640
12 Rollins (Crummer) 55 70 3.3 20 80 42 554
13 Oregon (Lundquist) 53 83 3.1 24 80 25 600
14 Texas A&M (Mays) 53 86 3.2 26 81 16 640
15 William & Mary 51 66 3.5 31 100 35 635
16 Illinois Urbana 50 63 3.5 26 90 39 621
17 Georgia State (Robinson) 49 93 3.1 23 70 28 580
18 S Carolina (Moore) 47 70 3.5 24 90 19 609
19 Georgia (Terry) 44 61 3.7 30 100 26 650
20 Arizona State 43 52 3.6 34 95 32 650
21 SUNY Buffalo 40 73 3.4 22 75 17 609
22 Washington 37 41 3.7 36 85 31 652
23 Boston College (Carroll) 35 40 3.8 28 83 45 635
24 Penn State (Smeal) 32 41 3.9 28 88 33 610
25 Oklahoma (Price) 26 54 3.7 19 60 20 620
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