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MBA Rankings Calculator

FIND YOUR BEST FIT

Find the top 30 full-time MBA programs that best match your priorities using business school rankings data from Poets & Quants, Businessweek, Financial Times, Forbes, and the U.S. Department of Education. The MBA Rankings CalculatorTM was created for potential students to identify the U.S. business schools that perform well in the areas most important to them. Learn about Foster’s MBA options.

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Job Placement Rate
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Financial Times - Employment rate for previous year MBA graduates 3 months after graduation. Those not seeking jobs or for whom no job-seeking information is available are excluded
Low Average Debt
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U.S. Department of Education - College Scorecard. Includes information on cumulative debt at graduation. Field of study-level data files for the pooled 2014-15, 2015-16 award years through the pooled 2017-18, 2018-19 award years
Return on Investment
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Forbes - Alumni at 100 schools surveyed for pre- and post-MBA compensation, career choice and location. Schools with response rate of less than 15% of their alumni or negative alumni ROI after 5 years not included.

Schools ranked based on five year MBA gains: alumni earnings in the first five years compared to opportunity cost (2 years forgone compensation/bonuses & stock, tuition, fees).

It's assumed compensation would have risen half as fast as post-MBA salary increases had alumni not attended business school.
Post-MBA Salary Increase
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Financial Times - Average difference in alumni salary from before the MBA to now. Half of this figure is calculated according to the absolute salary increase and half according to the percentage increase relative to pre-MBA salary.
Faculty Research
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Financial Times - Number of articles published by full-time faculty in 45 selected journals weighted relative to the size of each faculty. (Research rankings here only include rank among U.S. schools.)
Student Selectivity
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Poets & Quants - Percentage of previous year’s applicants to the full-time program who were accepted
Average Salary & Bonus
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Poets & Quants - Average starting salary & bonus for previous year MBA grads. Salary based on the number of graduates who reported data. Mean signing bonus weighted by the proportion of those graduates who reported a bonus
Networking
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Businessweek - Quality of networks being built by classmates; students' interactions with alumni; successes of the career-services office; quality and breadth of alumni-to-alumni interactions; and the school's halo, or brand power, from recruiters' viewpoints.
Learning Experience
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Businessweek - Quality, depth, and range of instruction; whether the curriculum is applicable to real-world business situations; the degree of emphasis on innovation, problem-solving, and strategic thinking; the level of inspiration and support from instructors; class size; and collaboration.
Average GMAT
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Poets & Quants - Average Graduate Management Admission Test score and average GRE quantitative and verbal scores of full-time MBA students entering the previous fall. Scores with * indicate Median.

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