Acceptance & Graduation Rates At The Best Undergraduate Business Schools

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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