BusinessPundit 2026 Rankings
2026 Edition · 150 programs ranked

Best Business Schools

Updated July 3, 2026 How we rank →

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49Rank

Boston College Carroll School of Management

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts · Private · Class size 90

Asset managers along Route 128 and in the Financial District have hired Carroll's finance concentration for decades.

$120,000Tuition (total)
670Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
84%Placed at 3 mo.
$128,000Median salary
76.8BP Score
50Rank

UT Dallas Jindal School of Management

Richardson, Texas · Public · Class size 70

Jindal jumped eight spots to No. 23 in the 2026 U.S. News table — its highest ever — on the strength of the Telecom Corridor's hiring and research-heavy faculty.

$85,000Tuition (total)
665Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
84%Placed at 3 mo.
$120,000Median salary
76.6BP Score
51Rank

Fordham Gabelli School of Business

New York, New York · Private · Class size 80

Gabelli trades on location: Lincoln Center classrooms, value-investing lineage from its namesake, and internships a subway ride away.

$115,000Tuition (total)
640Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$120,000Median salary
76.5BP Score
52Rank

Northeastern D’Amore-McKim School of Business

Boston, Massachusetts · Private · Class size 70

Northeastern's corporate-residency MBA embeds students in six-month paid placements — the co-op model, graduate edition.

$110,000Tuition (total)
650Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
83%Placed at 3 mo.
$118,000Median salary
76.2BP Score
53Rank

UConn School of Business

Hartford, Connecticut · Public · Class size 55

Hartford's carriers, Travelers and The Hartford above all, hire UConn's risk and analytics graduates as a matter of course.

$90,000Tuition (total)
640Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
84%Placed at 3 mo.
$115,000Median salary
75.9BP Score
54Rank

Rutgers Business School

Newark, New Jersey · Public · Class size 90

New Jersey's pharmaceutical corridor, J&J and Merck above all, recruits Rutgers' pharma-management and supply-chain tracks by name.

$95,000Tuition (total)
640Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
85%Placed at 3 mo.
$120,000Median salary
75.6BP Score
55Rank

Temple Fox School of Business

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Public · Class size 60

Fox serves the Philadelphia economy Wharton graduates fly over — health systems, Comcast's orbit, the regional banks.

$85,000Tuition (total)
630Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
82%Placed at 3 mo.
$110,000Median salary
75.3BP Score
56Rank

George Washington School of Business

Washington, D.C. · Private · Class size 70

GW's MBA lives on government, development, and the contractor economy — with the IMF and multilaterals hiring off-campus.

$110,000Tuition (total)
640Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$115,000Median salary
75BP Score
57Rank

Florida Warrington College of Business

Gainesville, Florida · Public · Class size 60

Warrington launched internet MBA education back in 1999, and the residential program rides UF's rising national stock at a sub-$45,000 resident price.

$65,000Tuition (total)
660Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
85%Placed at 3 mo.
$115,000Median salary
74.9BP Score
58Rank

American Kogod School of Business

Washington, D.C. · Private · Class size 45

Kogod pivoted hard into business analytics for the government-services market — a small program with a specific customer.

$100,000Tuition (total)
620Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
79%Placed at 3 mo.
$105,000Median salary
74.7BP Score
59Rank

Illinois Gies College of Business

Champaign, Illinois · Public · Class size 4000

Gies shut its residential MBA in 2019 to bet everything on the $24,000 iMBA — now one of the largest and most disruptive graduate business programs on earth.

$24,000Tuition (total)
Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
Placed at 3 mo.
Median salary
74.6BP Score
60Rank

Howard University School of Business

Washington, D.C. · Private · Class size 50

Fortune 500 diversity pipelines treat Howard as the anchor school: MBB, banks, and consumer giants recruit its small MBA class intensely.

$90,000Tuition (total)
600Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
85%Placed at 3 mo.
$120,000Median salary
74.4BP Score

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