2026 Best Business Schools | Employment & Internship Rates For 2025 Graduates

INTERNSHIP RATES AT P&Q RANKED BUSINESS SCHOOLS

The table below shows Class of 2024 and 2025 employment rate for job-seeking graduates within three months of earning their degrees at 110 U.S. undergraduate business schools ranked by Poets&Quants.

2026 Rank
School 
Class of 2024 Internships 
Class of 2025 Internships 
2-Year Average
1 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) 99.4% 96.3% 97.8%
2 University of Virginia (McIntire) 96.0% 93.0% 94.5%
3 Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) 100.0% 99.6% 99.8%
4 University of Michigan (Ross) 95.2% 95.4% 95.3%
5 University of Southern California (Marshall) 100.0% 97.5% 98.8%
6 New York University (Stern) 96.9% 98.4% 97.7%
7 Georgetown University (McDonough) 96.0% 95.0% 95.5%
8 University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 98.0% 100.0% 99.0%
9 University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) 94.0% 95.0% 94.5%
10 Emory University (Goizueta) 91.0% 98.0% 94.5%
11 Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) 97.0% 98.0% 97.5%
12 Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) 96.0% 98.0% 97.0%
13 Wake Forest University 97.0% 98.0% 97.5%
14 Villanova University 97.7% 97.5% 97.6%
15 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 91.0% 91.0% 91.0%
15 University of Illinois (Gies) 89.0% 81.0% 85.0%
17 University of Richmond (Robins) 95.0% 95.6% 95.3%
18 Boston University (Questrom) 98.2% 98.4% 98.3%
19 University of Washington (Foster) 97.0% 95.0% 96.0%
20 Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) 96.4% 95.4% 95.9%
21 University of Wisconsin-Madison 87.0% 93.7% 90.4%
22 University of Miami (Herbert) 83.4% 91.1% 87.3%
23 University of Minnesota (Carlson) 89.1% 89.8% 89.5%
24 William & Mary (Mason) 87.0% 91.0% 89.0%
25 Southern Methodist University (Cox) 92.1% 94.2% 93.2%
26 University of Pittsburgh 91.0% 91.0% 91.0%
27 Binghamton University 98.0% 98.0% 98.0%
28 Texas Christian University (Neeley) 88.1% 92.0% 90.1%
29 Fordham University (Gabelli) 97.2% 97.5% 97.4%
30 Tulane University (Freeman) 83.3% 84.2% 83.8%
31 Trinity University (Neidorff) 87.0% 84.0% 85.5%
32 Purdue University (Daniels) 85.0% 87.0% 86.0%
33 Elon University (Love) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
34 Lehigh University 86.0% 86.0% 86.0%
35 Brigham Young University (Marriott) 80.0% 74.0% 77.0%
36 University of Georgia (Terry) 80.0% 81.0% 80.5%
37 Syracuse University (Whitman) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
38 Bucknell University (Freeman) 87.0% 91.0% 89.0%
39 Miami University (Farmer) 96.0% 96.0% 96.0%
40 University of Colorado Boulder (Leeds) 63.8% 63.8% 63.8%
41 Fairfield University (Dolan) 85.0% 76.0% 80.5%
42 University of Rochester (Simon) 88.9% 91.8% 90.4%
43 Providence College 95.0% 94.0% 94.5%
44 Case Western Reserve University (Weatherhead) 88.1% 88.1% 88.1%
45 Marquette University 83.0% 77.0% 80.0%
46 University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) 80.0% 84.0% 82.0%
47 University of Tennessee (Haslam) 83.0% 87.0% 85.0%
48 Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) 83.0% 69.0% 76.0%
49 University of Dayton 93.5% 87.2% 90.4%
50 Loyola Marymount University 76.0% 67.0% 71.5%
51 Butler University (Lacy) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
52 University of Houston (Bauer) 70.2% 65.1% 67.7%
53 The Catholic University of America (Busch) 89.0% 93.0% 91.0%
54 Lipscomb University 94.0% 98.7% 96.4%
55 Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick 77.6% 84.1% 80.9%
56 Susquehanna University (Weis) 80.0% 85.0% 82.5%
57 Texas A&M University (Mays) 67.9% 67.9% 67.9%
58 Seton Hall University (Stillman) 72.0% 76.4% 74.2%
59 Bryant University 74.0% 74.2% 74.1%
60 North Carolina State University (Poole) 88.0% 87.0% 87.5%
61 University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) 98.0% 98.0% 98.0%
61 Florida Southern College (Barnett) 96.0% 93.0% 94.5%
63 University of New Hampshire (Paul) 81.0% 85.0% 83.0%
64 University of Delaware (Lerner) 91.0% 90.0% 90.5%
65 University of Evansville (Schroeder) 88.0% 76.0% 82.0%
66 University of St. Thomas (Opus) 81.3% 84.8% 83.1%
67 The College of New Jersey 48.0% 41.0% 44.5%
68 University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) 48.8% 58.7% 53.8%
69 University of San Diego (Knauss) 69.0% 68.0% 68.5%
70 St. John’s University (Tobin) 75.0% 74.0% 74.5%
71 Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
72 Towson University 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
73 Rutgers Business School – Newark 68.4% 83.1% 75.8%
74 Marian University 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
75 Seattle University (Albers) 80.0% 67.0% 73.5%
76 Christopher Newport University (Luter) 38.0% 62.0% 50.0%
77 University of Connecticut 34.0% 83.2% 58.6%
78 Drexel University (LeBow) 95.4% 94.0% 94.7%
79 Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) 64.0% 73.0% 68.5%
80 Hult International Business School 70.0% 38.0% 54.0%
81 Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) 90.0% 83.0% 86.5%
82 Roger Williams University (Gabelli) 73.0% 73.0% 73.0%
83 Ohio University 91.0% 91.0% 91.0%
84 University of Denver (Daniels) 85.5% 69.0% 77.3%
85 Adelphi University (Willumstad) 53.0% 45.0% 49.0%
86 University of Oregon (Lundquist) 56.0% 62.0% 59.0%
87 Hofstra University (Zarb) 66.0% 62.0% 64.0%
88 Longwood University 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
89 Texas State University (McCoy) 76.0% 40.0% 58.0%
90 Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) 71.0% 72.5% 71.8%
91 Texas Tech University (Rawls) 50.1% 47.2% 48.7%
92 University of Mary Washington 53.0% 50.0% 51.5%
93 University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) 49.9% 53.5% 51.7%
94 University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) 96.0% 97.0% 96.5%
95 Ithaca College 94.0% 94.0% 94.0%
96 American University (Kogod) 70.0% 86.9% 78.5%
97 Iona University (LaPenta) 45.0% 51.0% 48.0%
98 University of Michigan-Dearborn 54.0% 51.4% 52.7%
99 Sacred Heart University (Jack Welch) 95.0% 89.0% 92.0%
100 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
101 University of Kansas 99.0% 99.0% 99.0%
102 University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) 40.0% 42.0% 41.0%
103 San Diego State University (Fowler) 59.0% 65.0% 62.0%
104 San Jose State University (Lucas) 48.6% 46.0% 47.3%
105 Florida International University 34.0% 35.0% 34.5%
106 Oregon State University 81.0% 83.0% 82.0%
107 Stony Brook University 21.5% 26.0% 23.7%
108 Northern Illinois University 54.0% 47.0% 50.5%
109 University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) 55.0% 56.0% 55.5%
110 Kennesaw State University (Coles) 34.0% 35.0% 34.5%

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