Warren Hall, home of the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management at Cornell University. Courtesy photo
ADMISSION STANDARDS
We used nine metrics to calculate our Admission Standards category, which accounts for one third of the overall ranking: Acceptance rate (25%); percent of alumni finishing in the top 10% of their high school class (10%); 6-year graduation rate (20%); average SAT/ACT score (10%), and average high school GPA (15%). We also use the percentage of students that are first-generation students, underrepresented minorities, women, and international students, weighing each metric 5%.
Admissions data is gathered through our institutional survey.
Admission Rank |
School |
Admissions Score |
| 1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 100.0 |
| 2 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | 97.3 |
| 3 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 94.7 |
| 4 | New York University (Stern) | 94.6 |
| 5 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 93.8 |
| 6 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | 93.4 |
| 7 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 91.6 |
| 8 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 91.1 |
| 9 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 90.0 |
| 10 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 89.8 |
| 11 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 89.2 |
| 12 | Boston University (Questrom) | 83.5 |
| 13 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 83.2 |
| 14 | Villanova University | 83.0 |
| 15 | Wake Forest University | 82.9 |
| 16 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 79.9 |
| 17 | William & Mary (Mason) | 79.3 |
| 18 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 77.4 |
| 19 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 76.1 |
| 20 | University of Miami (Herbert) | 74.3 |
| 21 | Tulane University (Freeman) | 73.3 |
| 22 | University of Richmond (Robins) | 72.8 |
| 23 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 72.8 |
| 24 | Lehigh University | 72.6 |
| 25 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | 69.8 |
| 26 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | 68.4 |
| 27 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 65.8 |
| 28 | University of Illinois (Gies) | 65.7 |
| 29 | University of Houston (Bauer) | 65.3 |
| 30 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 63.7 |
| 31 | University of Washington (Foster) | 62.8 |
| 32 | Michigan State University (Broad) | 61.6 |
| 33 | Purdue University (Daniels) | 60.8 |
| 34 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 60.2 |
| 34 | Florida International University | 60.2 |
| 36 | Binghamton University | 58.5 |
| 37 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 57.8 |
| 38 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 57.7 |
| 39 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 57.5 |
| 40 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 56.9 |
| 41 | University of Pittsburgh | 55.7 |
| 42 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | 55.1 |
| 43 | University of Connecticut | 52.5 |
| 44 | Providence College | 51.5 |
| 45 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 50.1 |
| 46 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 48.5 |
| 47 | Lipscomb University | 47.8 |
| 47 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 47.8 |
| 49 | The College of New Jersey | 47.4 |
| 50 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | 47.2 |
| 51 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 46.8 |
| 52 | Loyola Marymount University | 46.5 |
| 53 | San Diego State University (Fowler) | 46.1 |
| 54 | Elon University (Love) | 44.4 |
| 55 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | 42.8 |
| 56 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 42.3 |
| 57 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | 41.8 |
| 58 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | 41.7 |
| 59 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 40.9 |
| 60 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 40.5 |
| 61 | Miami University (Farmer) | 39.6 |
| 62 | University of Dayton | 39.1 |
| 63 | University of Texas at Arlington | 38.2 |
| 64 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 38.0 |
| 65 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 37.3 |
| 66 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 36.5 |
| 67 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 36.4 |
| 68 | American University (Kogod) | 36.2 |
| 69 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 35.8 |
| 70 | Sacred Heart University | 35.5 |
| 71 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | 34.4 |
| 72 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 34.2 |
| 73 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | 33.8 |
| 74 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 33.6 |
| 75 | Bryant University | 32.4 |
| 76 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 32.2 |
| 77 | Butler University (Lacy) | 31.9 |
| 78 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 31.8 |
| 79 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | 31.7 |
| 80 | University of Akron | 31.1 |
| 81 | Northern Illinois University | 31.0 |
| 82 | Texas State University (McCoy) | 30.6 |
| 83 | Towson University | 30.0 |
| 84 | Hult International Business School | 29.9 |
| 85 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 29.8 |
| 86 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 29.4 |
| 86 | Seattle University (Albers) | 29.4 |
| 88 | University of Mary Washington | 29.2 |
| 89 | Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) | 27.6 |
| 90 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | 27.3 |
| 90 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 27.3 |
| 92 | Ithaca College | 26.7 |
| 93 | Ohio University | 25.9 |
| 94 | Iowa State University (Ivy) | 24.6 |
| 95 | University of Kansas | 24.3 |
| 96 | Oregon State University | 23.7 |
| 97 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | 22.8 |
| 98 | Iona University (LaPenta) | 20.7 |
| 99 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 19.9 |
| 100 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 18.4 |
| 101 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 16.2 |
| 102 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 14.2 |
| 103 | Marian University (Indianapolis) | 11.1 |
| 104 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 0.0 |
Page 3: Admission Standards rank
Page 4: Career Outcomes rank
Page 5: Academic Experience rank
Page 6: Final P&Q ranking of 2025
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