Best Business Schools

Places

Rank	Name	Location	Total1 ($thou)	As % Of Expenses2 (%)	Years To Break Even	Pre-MBA ($thou)	2008 ($thou)	Tuition3 ($thou)	GMAT
1	Stanford	Stanford, CA	85	38	4.2	82	225	102	730
2	Dartmouth (Tuck)	Hanover, NH	80	39	4.0	70	205	94	720
3	Harvard	Boston, MA	79	34	4.0	82	215	102	720
4	Chicago (Booth)	Chicago, IL	63	30	4.2	71	210	97	720
5	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	Philadelphia, PA	57	27	4.4	75	200	100	715
6	Columbia	New York, NY	57	28	4.2	70	182	99	710
7	Cornell (Johnson)	Ithaca, NY	57	32	4.1	60	168	92	700
8	Northwestern (Kellogg)	Evanston, IL	52	27	4.2	66	165	96	710
9	Virginia (Darden)	Charlottesville, VA	50	28	4.2	60	159	93	700
10	Yale	New Haven, CT	46	26	4.3	57	160	93	720
11	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	Austin, TX	44	29	4.2	57	125	81	690
12	UC Berkeley (Haas)	Berkeley, CA	43	26	4.2	67	163	86	710
13	Duke (Fuqua)	Durham, NC	43	24	4.3	62	148	93	700
14	MIT (Sloan)	Cambridge, MA	42	20	4.4	70	190	96	710
15	UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	Chapel Hill, NC	41	28	4.2	55	142	86	690
16	Brigham Young (Marriott)	Provo, UT	41	39	3.9	45	105	38	680
17	NYU (Stern)	New York, NY	37	20	4.3	62	170	89	710
18	Michigan (Ross)	Ann Arbor, MI	37	20	4.3	62	155	93	710
19	UCLA (Anderson)	Los Angeles, CA	35	21	4.4	68	160	83	710
20	Iowa (Tippie)	Iowa City, IA	35	30	4.2	43	112	53	660
21	Michigan State (Broad)	East Lansing, MI	34	26	4.2	53	114	62	640
22	Emory (Goizueta)	Atlanta, GA	34	23	4.2	56	121	81	685
23	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	Pittsburgh, PA	33	18	4.4	60	145	98	700
24	Texas A&M (Mays)	College Station, TX	30	29	4.2	47	106	39	650
25	Indiana (Kelley)	Bloomington, IN	29	21	4.3	53	115	76	670
26	Minnesota (Carlson)	Minneapolis, MN	29	22	4.2	53	104	79	663
27	Connecticut	Storrs, CT	29	25	4.4	52	153	51	620
28	Penn State (Smeal)	University Park, PA	29	20	4.3	54	120	66	650
29	Maryland (Smith)	College Park, MD	29	18	4.3	49	109	86	660
30	Vanderbilt (Owen)	Nashville, TN	29	18	4.5	53	128	87	650
31	Georgetown (McDonough)	Washington, DC	28	16	4.5	60	147	83	678
32	USC (Marshall)	Los Angeles, CA	28	18	4.5	56	155	86	700
33	SMU (Cox)	Dallas, TX	28	20	4.4	52	122	81	640
34	Wake Forest (Babcock)	Winston-Salem, NC	27	21	4.4	47	108	71	630
35	Wisconsin-Madison	Madison, WI	27	19	4.3	51	103	53	666
36	Rollins (Crummer)	Winter Park, FL	27	30	4.1	29	75	59	605
37	Rochester (Simon)	Rochester, NY	27	17	4.4	49	120	82	680
38	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	Notre Dame, IN	26	18	4.4	49	110	77	680
39	Ohio State (Fisher)	Columbus, OH	26	21	4.4	45	94	76	680
40	Washington (Foster)	Seattle, WA	25	21	4.3	48	111	68	688