Keep the salary, get the degree: eight evening and weekend programs that share faculty — and diplomas — with their full-time siblings.
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Chicago, Illinois · Private
The flexible curriculum is real — no required core beyond one course — and the consulting placement engine is arguably the best in the country.
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Evanston, Illinois · Private
Still the standard-bearer for marketing and general management, with the most collaborative culture of the M7.
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Berkeley, California · Public
The smallest class in the top ten and the strongest West Coast tech network outside Stanford. Bay Area employers treat Haas as a home team.
The only part-time programs worth this table’s space pass one test: same professors, same degree, no asterisk. Booth’s Evening and Weekend franchise remains the category’s gold standard and its largest, with Kellogg across town running the strongest weekend cohort. On the coasts, Haas owns the Bay’s evening market while Stern’s Langone program enrolls more part-timers than most full-time programs enroll, period.
The format’s economics beat every alternative in a soft market: no forgone salary, employer tuition help that survived the sponsorship cuts hitting EMBAs, and internship-free recruiting that leans on your current resume. The cost is time — three years of Tuesdays — and every graduate we interviewed said the same thing: the degree was the easy part; the calendar was the program.
New York, New York · Private · Class size 350
A block from Wall Street's talent pool, Stern feeds banking and fintech while the Langone part-time MBA lets New Yorkers earn the same degree at night.
Los Angeles, California · Public · Class size 360
Media and entertainment recruiting no other top-20 school can offer, plus fully-employed and executive formats that share the Anderson faculty.
Seattle, Washington · Public · Class size 120
More than half of Foster graduates take tech offers, the class is tiny, and Washington residents pay a fraction of coastal-private prices.
Austin, Texas · Public · Class size 284
The best value play in the top fifteen: in-state tuition under $60K and an Austin network that compounds yearly as tech payrolls migrate south.
Los Angeles, California · Private · Class size 200
Financial Times ranks the online MBA fourth in the world, the MSBA rides LA's data economy, and the alumni network answers like family.
| # | School | BP Score | Tuition | Avg. GMAT | Acceptance | Median salary | Placed 3 mo. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chicago Booth School of Business | 95.9 | $173,340 | 729 | 16.5% | $170,000 | 96.2% |
| 2 | Kellogg School of Management | 94.6 | $170,298 | 731 | 21.1% | $165,000 | 94.6% |
| 3 | UC Berkeley Haas School of Business | 90.1 | $151,000 | 726 | 20.1% | $165,000 | 92.9% |
| 4 | NYU Stern School of Business | 89.6 | $170,000 | 732 | 24% | $170,000 | 85% |
| 5 | UCLA Anderson School of Management | 87.1 | $152,000 | 714 | 33% | $155,000 | 84% |
| 6 | UW Foster School of Business | 86.4 | $120,000 | 710 | 35% | $155,000 | 88% |
| 7 | UT Austin McCombs School of Business | 88.7 | $119,000 | 710 | 28.9% | $152,000 | 91.8% |
| 8 | USC Marshall School of Business | 84.7 | $160,000 | 710 | 30% | $150,000 | 83% |
Every figure comes from each school's employment report prepared under the MBA CSEA standard, which is independently audited. Where a school declines to report, we mark it unranked for that pillar rather than estimating.
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