BusinessPundit 2026 Rankings
#61 The Top 100 MBA Programs

Baruch Zicklin School of Business

CUNY Baruch College · New York, New York · Public

“The cheapest credible MBA in Manhattan by a mile.”

Reviewed by David Krug · July 2026
Data anchored to the 2026 U.S. News table, Poets&Quants reporting, and school-published class profiles

Baruch Zicklin School of Business
74.1
GoodBP Score
$60,000Tuition, total
620Avg. GMAT
Acceptance rate
81%Placed at 3 months
$110,000Median base salary

Our review

Zicklin’s math is almost unfair: an in-state sticker near $38,000, a Lexington Avenue address, and a graduate base threaded through New York’s mid-office finance and accounting economy. No elite firm treats it as a target school; every Big Four office and half the banks’ operations floors hire it constantly. Pure ROI, urban edition.

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