Acceptance & Graduation Rates At The Best Undergraduate Business Schools

These metrics show what it takes to get into the most competitive programs and whether students are crossing the finish line once they do.

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on April 10, 2025 | 10 minute read

ALL 6-YEAR GRADUATION RATES

Across all undergraduate universities in the U.S., about 62% of students earn degrees within six years.

The business programs ranked by Poets&Quants blow that figure out of the water. The average graduation rate for the 104 ranked programs was 81.9%, suggesting that business programs consistently outperform the national average in helping students stay enrolled, complete their coursework, and earn their degrees within a reasonable timeframe.

The table below shows the six-year graduation rates for all business programs ranked in 2025.

6-Year Grad Rates At P&Q Ranked B-Schools
2025 Rank
School
6-year grad rate
1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 96.5%
2 Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) 97.9%
3 University of Southern California (Marshall) 92.0%
4 Georgetown University (McDonough) 96.4%
4 University of Virginia (McIntire) 96.0%
5 New York University (Stern) 94.5%
6 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 94.0%
7 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) 95.0%
8 Emory University (Goizueta) 99.5%
9 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 98.7%
10 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 97.0%
11 University of Michigan (Ross) 94.9%
12 Villanova University 94.2%
13 Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) 93.0%
15 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 91.0%
16 Boston University (Questrom) 88.4%
17 University of Richmond (Robins) 85.2%
18 Wake Forest University 97.0%
19 University of Illinois (Gies) 92.0%
20 William & Mary (Mason) 91.0%
21 University of Miami (Herbert) 84.4%
22 University of Wisconsin-Madison 92.4%
23 Bucknell University (Freeman) 86.0%
23 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 94.0%
23 Indiana University (Kelley) 92.0%
26 Lehigh University 89.7%
27 Trinity University (Neidorff) 84.0%
28 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 85.4%
29 Fordham University (Gabelli) 85.6%
30 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 86.0%
31 Binghamton University 85.8%
32 University of Washington (Foster) 98.0%
33 University of Georgia (Terry) 96.7%
34 University of Pittsburgh 91.2%
35 Tulane University (Freeman) 85.5%
36 Purdue University (Daniels) 87.3%
37 Fairfield University (Dolan) 84.0%
38 Elon University (Love) 89.0%
39 Syracuse University (Whitman) 85.5%
40 University of Houston (Bauer) 78.6%
41 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 92.0%
42 Worcester Polytechnic Institute 90.0%
43 Providence College 85.8%
44 Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick 89.0%
45 Miami University (Farmer) 85.0%
46 Lipscomb University 77.9%
47 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 82.0%
48 Butler University (Lacy) 78.0%
49 University of Dayton 82.3%
50 Texas A&M University (Mays) 87.3%
51 Bryant University 81.1%
52 University of Delaware (Lerner) 85.9%
53 University of Tennessee (Haslam) 74.8%
53 The College of New Jersey 89.0%
55 Loyola Marymount University 78.3%
56 University of San Diego (Knauss) 84.0%
57 University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) 83.8%
58 University of New Hampshire (Paul) 82.1%
59 Hofstra University (Zarb) 71.0%
59 Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) 74.8%
61 Florida Southern College (Barnett) 69.0%
62 University of St. Thomas (Opus) 77.1%
63 University of Connecticut 81.0%
64 St. John’s University (Tobin) 67.0%
65 Seton Hall University (Stillman) 77.2%
65 Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) 77.0%
67 Michigan State University (Broad) 97.0%
67 Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) 76.3%
67 Drexel University (LeBow) 83.2%
70 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 83.0%
71 University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) 78.5%
72 Hult International Business School 69.5%
73 Iona University (LaPenta) 65.0%
74 Towson University 65.0%
75 Texas State University (McCoy) 66.1%
76 Marian University (Indianapolis) 67.0%
77 Seattle University (Albers) 74.1%
78 Roger Williams University (Gabelli) 70.3%
79 Rutgers Business School – Newark 71.0%
79 Ohio University 78.5%
81 University of Denver (Daniels) 76.0%
82 Ithaca College 76.1%
83 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 63.7%
84 University of Mary Washington 66.0%
85 Sacred Heart University 72.0%
86 University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) 65.6%
87 University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) 70.6%
88 Florida International University 71.9%
89 Texas Tech University (Rawls) 75.5%
90 University of Michigan-Dearborn 65.0%
91 Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) 79.0%
92 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) 84.0%
93 American University (Kogod) 75.0%
94 University of Kentucky (Gatton) 75.3%
95 University of Akron 74.4%
96 Oregon State University 68.0%
97 San Jose State University (Lucas) 79.5%
98 Northern Illinois University 67.0%
99 Iowa State University (Ivy) 79.8%
100 University of Kansas 87.1%
101 San Diego State University (Fowler) 75.7%
102 Adelphi University (Willumstad) 62.0%
103 University of Texas at Arlington 64.4%
104 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 51.8%

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