ACCEPTANCE RATES FOLLOWING THE PANDEMIC
There have now been four admission cycles since the COVID-19 pandemic caused most schools in our ranking to become less selective. Between the Fall 2019 and Fall 2020 admission cycles, acceptance rates rose at 57 of the schools we ranked. Rates rose at 38 schools the following cycle.
Acceptance rates have since leveled at many of these programs, even dropping below Fall 2019 rates at some.
The table below shows acceptance rates for the last six admission cycles for all programs ranked in 2025.
Acceptance Rates at P&Q Ranked Business Schools |
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2025 Rank |
School |
Fall 2024 |
Fall 2023 |
Fall 2022 |
Fall 2021 |
Fall 2020 |
Fall 2019 |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 4.5% | 4.5% | 6.3% | 6.0% | 7.6% | 6.7% |
| 2 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | 4.9% | 4.8% | 4.2% | 5.4% | 8.0% | 6.4% |
| 3 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 7.0% | 7.2% | 9.0% | 9.9% | 15.0% | 11.0% |
| 4 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 11.7% | 12.9% | 12.3% | 11.8% | 20.0% | 16.2% |
| 4 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | 6.6% | 8.2% | 11.8% | 11.8% | 13.4% | 12.9% |
| 5 | New York University (Stern) | 4.8% | 5.2% | 6.6% | 7.2% | 12.7% | 7.6% |
| 6 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 11.0% | 11.0% | 9.0% | 8.4% | 14.3% | 11.4% |
| 7 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 11.0% | 12.0% | 13.7% | 15.1% | 19.8% | 17.0% |
| 8 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 11.0% | 12.6% | 16.0% | 14.8% | 17.7% | 19.8% |
| 9 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 7.0% | 8.5% | 10.0% | 11.4% | 11.5% | 10.6% |
| 10 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 10.0% | 9.4% | 8.6% | 10.4% | 14.3% | 11.6% |
| 11 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 7.8% | 8.9% | 9.8% | 11.2% | 15.2% | 12.0% |
| 12 | Villanova University | 19.0% | 18.0% | 16.8% | 18.9% | 25.0% | 22.2% |
| 13 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 5.1% | 6.1% | 5.7% | 16.3% | 19.5% | 19.5% |
| 15 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 18.8% | 19.4% | 17.7% | 20.1% | 23.3% | 24.0% |
| 16 | Boston University (Questrom) | 8.1% | 8.0% | 13.5% | 15.2% | 17.9% | 15.1% |
| 17 | University of Richmond (Robins) | 22.7% | 22.5% | 24.7% | 28.1% | 31.2% | 28.6% |
| 18 | Wake Forest University | 15.4% | 20.2% | 24.3% | 23.3% | 29.0% | 28.4% |
| 19 | University of Illinois (Gies) | 23.1% | 24.2% | 27.0% | 38.9% | 44.1% | 42.0% |
| 20 | William & Mary (Mason) | 17.6% | 24.7% | 38.8% | 34.0% | 26.0% | 27.9% |
| 21 | University of Miami (Herbert) | 17.5% | 19.5% | 19.2% | 28.7% | 34.1% | 25.1% |
| 22 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 17.7% | 16.0% | 23.7% | 27.3% | 26.6% | 28.7% |
| 23 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | 21.0% | 26.0% | 21.5% | 22.8% | 30.1% | 29.3% |
| 23 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 34.1% | 34.8% | 39.7% | 49.0% | 48.8% | 44.5% |
| 23 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 30.5% | 29.3% | 29.5% | 29.2% | 29.3% | 31.6% |
| 26 | Lehigh University | 26.9% | 25.0% | 38.0% | 44.6% | 51.5% | 35.2% |
| 27 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | 26.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 28 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 42.3% | 49.2% | 48.8% | 47.9% | 51.1% | 47.4% |
| 29 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | 56.7% | 49.6% | 48.5% | 54.5% | 51.2% | 44.6% |
| 30 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 53.0% | 48.0% | 46.0% | 48.7% | 62.5% | 10.9% |
| 31 | Binghamton University | 27.2% | 24.9% | 27.1% | 32.1% | 32.1% | 30.0% |
| 32 | University of Washington (Foster) | 18.3% | 8.5% | 21.0% | 39.1% | 34.2% | 21.0% |
| 33 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 43.0% | 40.0% | 48.0% | 42.0% | 45.1% | 50.2% |
| 34 | University of Pittsburgh | 37.2% | 28.1% | 29.5% | 48.1% | 49.0% | 41.6% |
| 35 | Tulane University (Freeman) | 13.0% | 15.1% | 12.9% | 13.6% | 18.3% | 17.5% |
| 36 | Purdue University (Daniels) | 20.0% | 19.0% | 17.5% | 74.7% | 71.4% | 57.5% |
| 37 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 35.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 38 | Elon University (Love) | 66.0% | 67.3% | 74.2% | 77.4% | 72.0% | 84.5% |
| 39 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 42.6% | 31.5% | 46.2% | 48.0% | 56.1% | 37.1% |
| 40 | University of Houston (Bauer) | 38.9% | 34.4% | 34.2% | 34.5% | 23.8% | 25.5% |
| 41 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 38.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 42 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 44.2% | 44.0% | 41.5% | 53.4% | 45.0% | 43.2% |
| 43 | Providence College | 54.4% | 48.4% | 52.5% | 58.3% | 55.6% | 46.9% |
| 44 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 38.7% | 41.5% | 47.6% | 46.2% | 47.6% | 45.6% |
| 45 | Miami University (Farmer) | 63.4% | 75.7% | 76.1% | 78.1% | 86.8% | 76.2% |
| 46 | Lipscomb University | 57.7% | 56.4% | 55.7% | 76.5% | 86.2% | 38.4% |
| 47 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 52.4% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 48 | Butler University (Lacy) | 88.3% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 49 | University of Dayton | 60.2% | 65.0% | 76.5% | 83.1% | NA | NA |
| 50 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | 29.8% | 28.0% | 36.2% | 30.5% | NA | 28.6% |
| 51 | Bryant University | 74.7% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 52 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 55.9% | 55.4% | 64.2% | 62.3% | 53.6% | 55.6% |
| 53 | The College of New Jersey | 64.0% | 62.0% | 64.6% | 66.0% | 51.2% | 44.4% |
| 53 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 31.2% | 39.0% | 73.3% | 81.4% | 93.1% | 88.0% |
| 55 | Loyola Marymount University | 47.3% | 42.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 56 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | 52.4% | 46.7% | 52.6% | 52.7% | 58.7% | 48.7% |
| 57 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 49.2% | 54.2% | 57.6% | 59.7% | 67.1% | 67.9% |
| 58 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 67.4% | 68.3% | 70.8% | 74.5% | 71.2% | 71.5% |
| 59 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 68.0% | 71.0% | 86.3% | 84.4% | 89.6% | 68.0% |
| 59 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 71.4% | 72.3% | 70.9% | 78.3% | 75.5% | 79.1% |
| 61 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | 62.0% | 57.0% | 56.2% | 59.5% | 51.5% | 73.9% |
| 62 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | 82.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 63 | University of Connecticut | 48.8% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 64 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | 48.0% | 51.6% | 53.8% | 38.5% | 56.7% | 56.9% |
| 65 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 88.0% | 83.0% | 94.0% | 96.7% | 79.5% | 80.4% |
| 65 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 71.3% | 76.0% | 72.8% | 73.7% | NA | 59.1% |
| 67 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 84.9% | 84.0% | 86.6% | 82.8% | 73.1% | 72.9% |
| 67 | Michigan State University (Broad) | 38.0% | 44.4% | 48.3% | 55.4% | 64.2% | 39.8% |
| 67 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 74.9% | 78.5% | 82.3% | 90.3% | 81.7% | 77.4% |
| 70 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 66.1% | 66.0% | 72.2% | 70.7% | 52.5% | 58.2% |
| 71 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | 77.6% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 72 | Hult International Business School | 60.0% | 56.0% | 48.2% | 40.1% | 37.8% | 19.8% |
| 73 | Iona University (LaPenta) | 88.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 74 | Towson University | 64.4% | 74.0% | 67.0% | 67.0% | NA | NA |
| 75 | Texas State University (McCoy) | 66.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 76 | Marian University (Indianapolis) | 95.5% | 92.9% | 76.0% | 72.6% | 60.7% | NA |
| 77 | Seattle University (Albers) | 80.3% | 84.6% | 78.2% | 88.1% | 82.1% | 78.2% |
| 78 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 89.9% | 87.9% | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 79 | Ohio University | 87.1% | 88.4% | 87.5% | 90.7% | 90.3% | NA |
| 79 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | 63.0% | 70.1% | 80.0% | 86.5% | 75.0% | 69.4% |
| 81 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 69.8% | 57.3% | 61.4% | 67.8% | 62.2% | 77.5% |
| 82 | Ithaca College | 80.0% | 76.0% | 82.8% | 87.3% | 85.5% | 75.7% |
| 83 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 89.0% | 89.4% | 86.2% | 84.0% | 74.5% | 75.0% |
| 84 | University of Mary Washington | 80.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 85 | Sacred Heart University | 65.4% | 67.6% | 60.8% | 62.8% | 61.5% | 59.1% |
| 86 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 54.0% | 96.2% | 94.0% | 73.6% | 67.3% | NA |
| 87 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 64.2% | 71.0% | 60.1% | 58.4% | 68.0% | 62.1% |
| 88 | Florida International University | 32.0% | 32.0% | 44.6% | 51.0% | 41.1% | 64.4% |
| 89 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 72.8% | 71.9% | 86.4% | NA | NA | NA |
| 90 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 56.0% | 58.0% | 55.6% | 64.9% | 61.0% | 54.9% |
| 91 | Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) | 85.4% | |||||
| 92 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | 58.0% | |||||
| 93 | American University (Kogod) | 60.7% | 42.0% | 30.3% | 58.2% | 32.3% | 37.0% |
| 94 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 92.0% | 92.0% | 91.1% | 49.5% | 84.5% | 82.4% |
| 95 | University of Akron | 57.2% | 97.0% | 97.0% | 97.1% | 95.1% | 90.2% |
| 96 | Oregon State University | 74.3% | 81.1% | NA | 88.4% | 91.7% | 85.9% |
| 97 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 85.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 98 | Northern Illinois University | 67.5% | 67.9% | 68.8% | 67.5% | 60.8% | 52.5% |
| 99 | Iowa State University (Ivy) | 85.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 100 | University of Kansas | 100.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 101 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | 33.6% | 34.0% | 41.2% | NA | NA | NA |
| 102 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | 63.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| 103 | University of Texas at Arlington | 58.6% | 61.8% | 82.1% | 63.0% | 87.3% | 61.7% |
| 104 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 56.0% | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
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