BusinessPundit 2026 Rankings
2026 Edition · 150 programs ranked

Best Business Schools

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97Rank

Colorado Leeds School of Business

Boulder, Colorado · Public · Class size 50

Leeds serves the Front Range's founder economy — natural foods was practically invented here — with sustainability programming that predates the trend.

$85,000Tuition (total)
630Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
81%Placed at 3 mo.
$105,000Median salary
68BP Score
98Rank

LSU Ourso College of Business

Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Public · Class size 40

The Mississippi River's chemical-plant economy between Baton Rouge and New Orleans hires Ourso's flexible MBA steadily.

$55,000Tuition (total)
590Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$90,000Median salary
67.8BP Score
99Rank

Texas Tech Rawls College of Business

Lubbock, Texas · Public · Class size 45

The Permian's back office, agribusiness, and a giant working-professional footprint — Rawls covers the Texas the coastal programs skip.

$50,000Tuition (total)
590Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
82%Placed at 3 mo.
$92,000Median salary
67.5BP Score
100Rank

Oklahoma Price College of Business

Norman, Oklahoma · Public · Class size 40

Price's energy-management program dates to the 1950s and still feeds Oklahoma City's operator-and-mineral economy.

$52,000Tuition (total)
600Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
81%Placed at 3 mo.
$92,000Median salary
67.2BP Score
101Rank

Cincinnati Lindner College of Business

Cincinnati, Ohio · Public · Class size 45

Procter & Gamble's hometown school supplies the consumer-goods industry with marketers, and the co-op tradition Cincinnati invented keeps everyone employed.

$50,000Tuition (total)
600Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
83%Placed at 3 mo.
$92,000Median salary
67BP Score
102Rank

Oklahoma State Spears School of Business

Stillwater, Oklahoma · Public · Class size 35

Spears serves the same state economy as Price with a bigger online footprint and an even smaller invoice.

$45,000Tuition (total)
580Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$85,000Median salary
66.9BP Score
103Rank

Arizona Eller College of Management

Tucson, Arizona · Public · Class size 45

Eller's management-information-systems department has held a top-five spot in U.S. News's MIS specialty ranking for decades — the analytics era finally caught up to it.

$60,000Tuition (total)
620Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
81%Placed at 3 mo.
$95,000Median salary
66.7BP Score
104Rank

Florida State College of Business

Tallahassee, Florida · Public · Class size 40

Tallahassee's government-and-association economy plus Florida's insurance industry give FSU's program its steady customers.

$48,000Tuition (total)
590Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
81%Placed at 3 mo.
$88,000Median salary
66.6BP Score
105Rank

Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business

Blacksburg, Virginia · Public · Class size 40

Pamplin's evening MBA runs in the D.C. tech corridor where Virginia Tech's engineering alumni already dominate — and Amazon HQ2 moved in next door.

$55,000Tuition (total)
610Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
83%Placed at 3 mo.
$100,000Median salary
66.4BP Score
106Rank

UCF College of Business

Orlando, Florida · Public · Class size 45

Theme-park operations, the simulation-and-training defense cluster, and hospitality at volume — UCF's MBA serves the economy outside the gates.

$45,000Tuition (total)
580Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
80%Placed at 3 mo.
$85,000Median salary
66.3BP Score
107Rank

Wake Forest School of Business

Winston-Salem, North Carolina · Private · Class size 120

Wake Forest ended full-time MBA admissions in 2018 to focus on working-professional formats — the Charlotte evening program now carries the flag.

$95,000Tuition (total)
Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
85%Placed at 3 mo.
$105,000Median salary
66.1BP Score
108Rank

USF Muma College of Business

Tampa, Florida · Public · Class size 45

Citi, Raymond James, and the finance-operations migration to Tampa Bay hire Muma's affordable evening cohorts continuously.

$46,000Tuition (total)
590Avg. GMAT
Acceptance
82%Placed at 3 mo.
$90,000Median salary
66BP Score

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