SCHOLARSHIP RATES AT P&Q RANKED BUSINESS PROGRAMS
If the cost of a quality business degree seems out of reach, remember that sticker price is rarely the amount a student pays.
Scholarships and grants can make a huge difference in the real cost of a business degree, especially at schools that prioritize merit and need-based aid. In fact, nearly all of the 110 ranked undergraduate business schools in P&Q’s 2026 ranking report offering some level of scholarship support to incoming students. The percentage of students receiving scholarships varies widely by school, as does the average amount awarded.
While scholarship data is not figured in our ranking methodology, we ask schools to report the data to help prospective students evaluate target programs. We asked schools to provide the percentage of incoming Fall 2025 business students that received scholarship support including merit- and need-based federal, state, institutional, and external grants and scholarships. (It does not include work study, loans, or athletic scholarships.) (Where business-specific data was not available, schools were asked to provide university-wide data.)
The table below shows the school-reported data for both these questions at each P&Q ranked program.
2026 Rank |
School |
% Receiving Scholarship |
Average $$ |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | NR | NR |
| 2 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | 48.0% | $33,900 |
| 3 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | 57.0% | $45,830 |
| 4 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 57.0% | $19,873 |
| 5 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | NR | NR |
| 6 | New York University (Stern) | 21.3% | $63,749 |
| 7 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 34.5% | $56,537 |
| 8 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 56.0% | $11,376 |
| 9 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 65.5% | $59,588 |
| 10 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 37.0% | $58,824 |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 42.0% | $78,705 |
| 12 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 59.0% | $60,295 |
| 13 | Wake Forest University | 28.0% | $31,086 |
| 14 | Villanova University | 38.0% | $48,781 |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 80.0% | $13,798 |
| 15 | University of Illinois (Gies) | 54.0% | |
| 17 | University of Richmond (Robins) | 53.0% | $51,894 |
| 18 | Boston University (Questrom) | 33.5% | $62,571 |
| 19 | University of Washington (Foster) | 64.0% | $1,646 |
| 20 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 53.0% | $52,404 |
| 21 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 51.1% | $20,408 |
| 22 | University of Miami (Herbert) | 74.2% | $32,832 |
| 23 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 65.7% | $12,810 |
| 24 | William & Mary (Mason) | 32.0% | $22,935 |
| 25 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | ||
| 26 | University of Pittsburgh | NR | NR |
| 27 | Binghamton University | 72.0% | $9,317 |
| 28 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 83.0% | $31,713 |
| 29 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | 95.8% | $32,476 |
| 30 | Tulane University (Freeman) | 46.4% | $38,647 |
| 31 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | 99.0% | $39,500 |
| 32 | Purdue University (Daniels) | NR | NR |
| 33 | Elon University (Love) | 79.0% | $20,123 |
| 34 | Lehigh University | 49.4% | $49,368 |
| 35 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | NR | NR |
| 36 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 86.0% | $10,455 |
| 37 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 74.5% | $40,019 |
| 38 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | 41.5% | $40,465 |
| 39 | Miami University (Farmer) | 95.9% | $11,120 |
| 40 | University of Colorado Boulder (Leeds) | 74.0% | $6,186 |
| 41 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 97.0% | $27,093 |
| 42 | University of Rochester (Simon) | 69.2% | $46,732 |
| 43 | Providence College | NR | NR |
| 44 | Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) | 87.0% | $35,718 |
| 45 | Marquette University | NR | NR |
| 46 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 82.3% | $12,465 |
| 47 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 91.5% | $11,060 |
| 48 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) | NR | $35,018 |
| 49 | University of Dayton | 94.9% | $32,316 |
| 50 | Loyola Marymount University | NR | NR |
| 51 | Butler University (Lacy) | 99.0% | $32,080 |
| 52 | University of Houston (Bauer) | 83.6% | $11,750 |
| 53 | The Catholic University of America (Busch) | 98.2% | $48,103 |
| 54 | Lipscomb University | 98.5% | $14,000 |
| 55 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 44.5% | $15,264 |
| 56 | Susquehanna University (Weis) | 100.0% | $48,650 |
| 57 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | 61.4% | $5,738 |
| 58 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 100.0% | $34,049 |
| 59 | Bryant University | 99.8% | $31,837 |
| 60 | North Carolina State University (Poole) | 40.6% | $11,753 |
| 61 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | NR | NR |
| 61 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | NR | NR |
| 63 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 95.6% | $11,698 |
| 64 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 98.6% | $12,735 |
| 65 | University of Evansville (Schroeder) | 96.1% | $35,429 |
| 66 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | 100.0% | NR |
| 67 | The College of New Jersey | 39.0% | $6,235 |
| 68 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 93.3% | $5,584 |
| 69 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | 83.0% | $51,568 |
| 70 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | 100.0% | $38,215 |
| 71 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 100.0% | $41,161 |
| 72 | Towson University | 57.3% | $9,872 |
| 73 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | 80.7% | $14,327 |
| 74 | Marian University | 98.0% | $22,173 |
| 75 | Seattle University (Albers) | 96.0% | $12,854 |
| 76 | Christopher Newport University (Luter) | 48.0% | $8,131 |
| 77 | University of Connecticut | 36.8% | NR |
| 78 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 100.0% | $36,945 |
| 79 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 100.0% | $43,371 |
| 80 | Hult International Business School | NR | NR |
| 81 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 98.0% | $29,574 |
| 82 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 100.0% | $24,228 |
| 83 | Ohio University | 91.0% | $7,376 |
| 84 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 95.9% | $40,706 |
| 85 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | 98.0% | $15,428 |
| 86 | University of Oregon (Lundquist) | 82.0% | NR |
| 87 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 98.0% | $38,399 |
| 88 | Longwood University | 93.0% | $15,038 |
| 89 | Texas State University (McCoy) | 76.0% | $3,789 |
| 90 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 93.0% | $9,212 |
| 91 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 85.0% | $3,096 |
| 92 | University of Mary Washington | 100.0% | $11,421 |
| 93 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 38.1% | $8,939 |
| 94 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 45.0% | NR |
| 95 | Ithaca College | 100.0% | $33,118 |
| 96 | American University (Kogod) | 72.0% | $38,269 |
| 97 | Iona University (LaPenta) | 99.0% | NR |
| 98 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 56.5% | $4,126 |
| 99 | Sacred Heart University (Jack Welch) | 99.0% | $24,196 |
| 100 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | 100.0% | $37,958 |
| 101 | University of Kansas | 95.0% | $10,070 |
| 102 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 98.4% | $37,427 |
| 103 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | 51.7% | $1,140 |
| 104 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | NR | NR |
| 105 | Florida International University | 44.1% | $1,943 |
| 106 | Oregon State University | 41.0% | $11,812 |
| 107 | Stony Brook University | 71.0% | $8,400 |
| 108 | Northern Illinois University | 90.0% | $7,090 |
| 109 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | 97.0% | $7,448 |
| 110 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 70.0% | $2,766 |
| * NR = Not Reported | |||
DON’T MISS THESE STORIES IN OUR 2026 RANKING PACKAGE:
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- The Complete Methodology
- How Alumni Rate Their Undergraduate Business Degrees
- Salary, Bonus & Total Compensation Data For 2025 Grads
- Employment & Internship Rates For 2025 Graduates
- Average SAT, ACT & GPA Scores At The Top B-Schools
- Acceptance & Graduation Rates At The Top B-Schools
- Total Cost & Scholarships At P&Q’s Ranked Business Schools
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