Homecoming at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Data for our Academic Experience category is taken entirely from an alumni survey we send graduates from each school in our ranking. This year, we surveyed the Class of 2022.
To get full credit for the data collected in the alumni survey, we require a 10% or higher response rate from the graduating class. We award schools their alumni data based on a sliding scale reflecting their alumni response rates. For example, a 10% or higher response rate earns 100% of alumni data, a 9.43% response rate earns 94.3% of the total alumni data, and so on.
Ten schools did not meet the 10% minimum response threshold and so did not get full credit for their alumni scores. They include Florida International University, Iowa State University (Ivy), Kennesaw State University (Coles), Michigan State University (Broad), Northern Illinois University, Oregon State University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally), San Diego State University (Fowler), University of Kansas, and University of Texas at Arlington.
That compares to seven schools who didn’t meet the response threshold in 2024 and 13 schools in 2023.
We used a weighted average of three years’ worth of alumni data in our ranking calculations, with the most recent class surveys weighted 50% and the other two class surveys weighted 25%.
We calculate this category based on three metrics: The average of 17 core experience questions that ask alumni to rate their satisfaction on a 10-point scale (accounting for 80% of the category score). Questions range from rating the quality of their professors to evaluating the effectiveness of their school’s career advising services.
We also consider the percentage of alumni who took part in a “significant experience” in their undergraduate business education (weighted 10%). That might include a major consulting project, thesis, or other program feature instrumental to their professional development, or a meaningful global immersion.
Finally, we measure the percentage of students whose first jobs after graduation were in their desired industries and companies (weighted 10%).
Experience Rank |
School |
Index score |
| 1 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 100.0 |
| 2 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 99.8 |
| 3 | University of Virginia (McIntire) | 99.5 |
| 3 | University of Illinois (Gies) | 99.5 |
| 5 | Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 98.6 |
| 6 | Bryant University | 98.1 |
| 7 | Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 97.9 |
| 8 | Butler University (Lacy) | 97.2 |
| 9 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | 96.9 |
| 10 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 96.7 |
| 11 | Georgetown University (McDonough) | 96.5 |
| 12 | Trinity University (Neidorff) | 96.3 |
| 13 | Fordham University (Gabelli) | 96.1 |
| 14 | Iona University (LaPenta) | 96.0 |
| 15 | University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 95.8 |
| 15 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 95.8 |
| 17 | Elon University (Love) | 94.5 |
| 17 | Bucknell University (Freeman) | 94.5 |
| 19 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 94.4 |
| 20 | Miami University (Farmer) | 94.0 |
| 21 | New York University (Stern) | 93.9 |
| 22 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 93.6 |
| 23 | Villanova University | 93.3 |
| 24 | University of Pittsburgh | 93.1 |
| 25 | University of Richmond (Robins) | 92.6 |
| 26 | Hult International Business School | 92.5 |
| 26 | Binghamton University | 92.5 |
| 28 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | 91.7 |
| 29 | University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 91.4 |
| 30 | University of Dayton | 91.1 |
| 31 | Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 90.8 |
| 32 | Fairfield University (Dolan) | 90.7 |
| 32 | University of Georgia (Terry) | 90.7 |
| 34 | University of Mary Washington | 90.6 |
| 35 | William & Mary (Mason) | 90.5 |
| 36 | University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 90.2 |
| 36 | University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 90.2 |
| 38 | Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 89.7 |
| 39 | Boston University (Questrom) | 89.3 |
| 40 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 89.1 |
| 41 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 88.9 |
| 42 | University of Houston (Bauer) | 88.7 |
| 42 | Providence College | 88.7 |
| 42 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 88.7 |
| 45 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 88.4 |
| 46 | Marian University (Indianapolis) | 88.1 |
| 47 | University of Miami (Herbert) | 88.0 |
| 48 | Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 87.9 |
| 49 | Purdue University (Daniels) | 87.8 |
| 50 | Lehigh University | 87.7 |
| 50 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 87.7 |
| 52 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 87.5 |
| 53 | Ohio University | 87.4 |
| 54 | Lipscomb University | 87.2 |
| 55 | University of Connecticut | 87.0 |
| 56 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | 86.6 |
| 57 | Saint Joseph’s University (Haub) | 86.5 |
| 58 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 86.4 |
| 59 | Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 86.2 |
| 60 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 86.0 |
| 60 | University of San Diego (Knauss) | 86.0 |
| 60 | Florida Southern College (Barnett) | 86.0 |
| 60 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 86.0 |
| 60 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 86.0 |
| 60 | University of Washington (Foster) | 86.0 |
| 60 | Tulane University (Freeman) | 86.0 |
| 67 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 85.9 |
| 68 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 85.5 |
| 69 | The College of New Jersey | 85.4 |
| 70 | Loyola Marymount University | 85.1 |
| 71 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 84.8 |
| 72 | Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 84.7 |
| 73 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 84.6 |
| 74 | Texas State University (McCoy) | 84.4 |
| 74 | University of St. Thomas (Opus) | 84.4 |
| 76 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 83.9 |
| 77 | Ithaca College | 83.7 |
| 77 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 83.7 |
| 79 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 81.7 |
| 80 | St. John’s University (Tobin) | 81.6 |
| 81 | Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 80.7 |
| 82 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 80.5 |
| 83 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 79.5 |
| 84 | Rutgers Business School – Newark | 79.1 |
| 85 | Sacred Heart University | 78.7 |
| 86 | University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 77.3 |
| 87 | Seattle University (Albers) | 76.9 |
| 88 | Wake Forest University | 75.5 |
| 89 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 75.0 |
| 90 | Towson University | 72.9 |
| 91 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | 67.4 |
| 92 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 63.7 |
| 93 | ** Northern Illinois University | 58.5 |
| 94 | American University (Kogod) | 56.8 |
| 95 | ** Florida International University | 49.3 |
| 96 | ** Michigan State University (Broad) | 47.5 |
| 97 | ** Oregon State University | 45.4 |
| 98 | University of Akron | 43.4 |
| 99 | ** Iowa State University (Ivy) | 42.5 |
| 100 | ** Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | 30.0 |
| 101 | ** University of Kansas | 20.9 |
| 102 | ** Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 6.2 |
| 103 | ** University of Texas at Arlington | 0.5 |
| 104 | ** San Diego State University (Fowler) | 0.0 |
| ** Indicates school did not meet 10% response threshold | ||
Page 3: Admission Standards rank
Page 4: Career Outcomes rank
Page 5: Academic Experience rank
Page 6: Final P&Q ranking of 2025
