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Alabama Manderson Graduate School of Business
University of Alabama · Tuscaloosa, Alabama · Public
“The Southeast auto belt's management school.”
Reviewed by David Krug · July 2026
Data anchored to the 2026 U.S. News table, Poets&Quants reporting, and school-published class profiles
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GoodBP Score
$62,000Tuition, total
620Avg. GMAT
Acceptance rate
84%Placed at 3 months
$98,000Median base salary
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Manderson feeds the I-20/59 auto corridor — Mercedes-Benz’s Vance plant and its supplier web — plus Birmingham’s Regions-anchored banking economy. A STEM MBA path adds visa runway, and Alabama’s merit-aid culture extends to graduate business more generously than most flagships.
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