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Boston College Carroll School of Management
Boston College · Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts · Private
“Boston finance's quieter feeder.”
Reviewed by David Krug · July 2026
Data anchored to the 2026 U.S. News table, Poets&Quants reporting, and school-published class profiles
76.8
GoodBP Score
$120,000Tuition, total
670Avg. GMAT
Acceptance rate
84%Placed at 3 months
$128,000Median base salary
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Carroll’s franchise is buy-side Boston: Fidelity, Wellington, and the custody banks treat the finance concentration as a local pipeline, and the Jesuit-inflected culture produces graduates those shops describe as low-drama. The class stays small, the network stays loyal, and the ambitions stay mostly inside the Bay State — a fair trade at this tier.
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