BusinessPundit 2026 Rankings
2026 Edition · 150 programs ranked

Best Business Schools

Updated July 3, 2026 How we rank →

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85Rank

Case Western Weatherhead School of Management

Cleveland, Ohio · Private · Class size 45

Weatherhead's healthcare management lane runs on University Circle adjacency, and its appreciative-inquiry tradition gave management consulting one of its standard tools.

$85,000Tuition (total)
620Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$100,000Median salary
70BP Score
86Rank

Brandeis International Business School

Waltham, Massachusetts · Private · Class size 40

Brandeis IBS runs finance and economics master's programs with a genuinely global student body; the MBA is the small generalist wing.

$85,000Tuition (total)
610Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
79%Placed at 3 mo.
$100,000Median salary
69.9BP Score
87Rank

Kentucky Gatton College of Business

Lexington, Kentucky · Public · Class size 45

Gatton's accelerated format and sub-$45,000 resident cost serve the UPS-Amazon logistics belt and Kentucky's healthcare systems.

$60,000Tuition (total)
610Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
82%Placed at 3 mo.
$95,000Median salary
69.6BP Score
88Rank

UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Davis, California · Public · Class size 50

Davis's world-leading food and agricultural science gives its small MBA a defensible specialty; Sacramento and the wine industry supply the rest.

$95,000Tuition (total)
640Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$115,000Median salary
69.5BP Score
89Rank

Louisville College of Business

Louisville, Kentucky · Public · Class size 40

Worldport's all-night hub economy and Humana's headquarters give Louisville's MBA two dependable customers.

$58,000Tuition (total)
600Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
81%Placed at 3 mo.
$92,000Median salary
69.3BP Score
91Rank

Georgia State Robinson College of Business

Atlanta, Georgia · Public · Class size 50

Transaction Alley processes most of America's card payments, and Robinson's risk and fintech programs staff it from downtown.

$50,000Tuition (total)
600Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
82%Placed at 3 mo.
$95,000Median salary
68.9BP Score
92Rank

Auburn Harbert College of Business

Auburn, Alabama · Public · Class size 40

Harbert's online MBA is a fixture in U.S. News's online-MBA top tier, and the Auburn family hires its own across the Southeast's industrial economy.

$60,000Tuition (total)
600Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
83%Placed at 3 mo.
$95,000Median salary
68.7BP Score
93Rank

Kansas School of Business

Lawrence, Kansas · Public · Class size 35

KU jumped 21 spots to No. 51 in the 2026 U.S. News table — the year's largest rise — on outcomes the Kansas City metro has been buying all along.

$48,000Tuition (total)
600Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
82%Placed at 3 mo.
$90,000Median salary
68.6BP Score
94Rank

Ole Miss School of Business Administration

Oxford, Mississippi · Public · Class size 35

Oxford charm, a compressed calendar, and a sub-$40,000 resident invoice — Ole Miss keeps the MBA simple.

$50,000Tuition (total)
590Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$88,000Median salary
68.4BP Score
95Rank

Santa Clara Leavey School of Business

Santa Clara, California · Private · Class size 50

Leavey sits physically inside Silicon Valley — Nvidia is a bike ride away — and its part-time program has moved Valley engineers into management for fifty years.

$95,000Tuition (total)
640Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
81%Placed at 3 mo.
$130,000Median salary
68.3BP Score
96Rank

Mississippi State College of Business

Starkville, Mississippi · Public · Class size 30

MSU's MBA serves the agricultural-industrial economy the coastal rankings never see, at a total cost near $32,000 in-state.

$45,000Tuition (total)
580Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
81%Placed at 3 mo.
$85,000Median salary
68.1BP Score

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