At Poets&Quants we believe in transparency in our ranking process. We also believe the most value of any ranking is the wealth of data collected, cleaned, organized, and provided in one helpful spot. In that spirit, we’ve created a “data dump” article where we publish all of the data we used to calculate our 2020 Rankings of Best Undergraduate Business Schools. To see how each school did on our alumni survey, and in the admissions standards and career outcomes categories, click through the following pages.
Admissions Standards
The data below is for the incoming 2020 class and 2018 graduating class and is specific to the business school at each school. Acceptance rate and average SAT scores were gathered through the school survey and are for the 2020 incoming class. The top 10% high school class data was gathered through the alumni survey and is for the graduating class of 2018.
| School | Admissions Total | Acceptance Rate (Weighted 30%) | Average SAT (Weighted 35%) | Top 10% High School Class (Weighted 35%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 100 | 7.62% | 1504 | 90.00% |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 99.42908873 | 14.26% | 1491 | 95.45% |
| University of Virginia (McIntire) | 95.98339775 | 13.42% | 1429 | 89.29% |
| University of Michigan (Ross) | 94.58604812 | 15.22% | 1460 | 85.06% |
| University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 94.17489839 | 19.78% | 1500 | 85.51% |
| Georgetown University (McDonough) | 94.13059599 | 19.95% | 1419 | 90.91% |
| University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 93.40060598 | 11.51% | 1451 | 78.95% |
| New York University (Stern) | 92.92873759 | 12.65% | 1,507 | 75.00% |
| Cornell University (SC Johnson) | 92.56171994 | 7.96% | 1489 | 70.83% |
| Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 92.09509677 | 14.26% | 1510 | 74.00% |
| University of Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 91.03670459 | 19.08% | 1378 | 84.30% |
| Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 90.46099217 | 23.29% | 1330 | 89.80% |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Foisie) | 87.0037692 | 44.97% | 1336 | 100.00% |
| Wake Forest University | 86.54065323 | 29.00% | 0 | 80.00% |
| Emory University (Goizueta) | 86.41398852 | 17.66% | 1440 | 66.27% |
| University of Wisconsin | 85.43804948 | 26.55% | 1400 | 74.36% |
| Villanova University | 85.09183141 | 24.95% | 1410 | 71.26% |
| University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 84.6505896 | 29.32% | 1365 | 77.08% |
| The College of William & Mary (Mason) | 84.51610078 | 25.98% | 1386 | 72.22% |
| Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 81.55600658 | 19.53% | 1456 | 53.45% |
| Binghamton University | 81.18679215 | 32.09% | 1417 | 66.67% |
| University of Washington (Foster) | 81.15919059 | 34.24% | 1412 | 68.92% |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 81.13037426 | 17.88% | 1417 | 53.33% |
| University of Miami (Herbert) | 80.00869397 | 34.09% | 1329 | 71.11% |
| Tulane University (Freeman) | 78.16981092 | 18.27% | 1430 | 44.68% |
| University of Illinois (Gies) | 77.73114486 | 44.06% | 1374 | 71.11% |
| University of Richmond (Robins) | 76.7992492 | 31.20% | 1384 | 55.95% |
| Indiana University (Kelley) | 75.3022316 | 48.83% | 1430 | 65.14% |
| University of Houston (Bauer) | 74.69508495 | 23.75% | 1306 | 48.41% |
| Bucknell University | 73.90906315 | 30.08% | 1338 | 50.00% |
| University of Georgia (Terry) | 72.92914709 | 45.09% | 1325 | 62.09% |
| University of Massachusetts-Amherst (Isenberg) | 71.03235926 | 41.54% | 1316 | 54.17% |
| University of Pittsburgh | 71.02699556 | 49.00% | 1338 | 59.62% |
| Santa Clara University (Leavey) | 70.87210511 | 46.44% | 1357 | 55.56% |
| Lehigh University | 70.50623384 | 51.54% | 1369 | 58.49% |
| Brigham Young University (Marriott) | 70.45348032 | 50.69% | 1325 | 60.47% |
| Ohio State University (Fisher) | 70.00756109 | 61.13% | 1365 | 66.28% |
| George Washington University | 69.84623901 | 37.37% | 1304 | 47.83% |
| Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 69.3712771 | 47.56% | 1371 | 51.54% |
| Fordham University (Gabelli) | 69.282497 | 51.18% | 1346 | 56.31% |
| American University | 69.06184555 | 32.25% | 1259 | 43.90% |
| Hult International Business School | 68.9849465 | 37.79% | 1217 | 51.61% |
| Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 68.47274401 | 51.06% | 1325 | 55.36% |
| North Carolina State University (Poole) | 68.44713243 | 38.60% | 1283 | 46.51% |
| Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 65.58148233 | 62.54% | 1465 | 48.78% |
| St. John’s University (Tobin) | 63.37466405 | 56.68% | 1230 | 52.83% |
| Florida International University | 62.7314111 | 41.17% | 1204 | 38.39% |
| Florida Southern College | 62.64921837 | 51.50% | 1170 | 50.00% |
| Syracuse University (Whitman) | 62.53445389 | 56.10% | 1286 | 46.27% |
| University of San Diego | 62.4776096 | 58.70% | 1250 | 50.91% |
| University of Denver (Daniels) | 62.05979882 | 62.20% | 1264 | 52.08% |
| The College of New Jersey | 61.60252909 | 51.20% | 1223 | 43.33% |
| University of Delaware (Lerner) | 60.94856409 | 53.61% | 1248 | 42.11% |
| University of New Mexico (Anderson) | 60.76746687 | 35.60% | 1110 | 34.04% |
| Providence College | 60.45805145 | 55.62% | 1268 | 41.30% |
| Michigan State University (Broad) | 60.37502389 | 64.20% | 1225 | 51.88% |
| Purdue University (Krannert) | 59.52495616 | 71.35% | 1277 | 52.73% |
| University of Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 58.85362244 | 52.53% | 1240 | 35.87% |
| Drexel University (LeBow) | 58.83392632 | 73.08% | 1271 | 52.83% |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn | 58.05301489 | 61.00% | 1154 | 47.22% |
| University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 57.76915739 | 67.10% | 1271 | 44.35% |
| University of Oklahoma (Price) | 57.59887492 | 71.13% | 1255 | 48.68% |
| Miami University (Farmer) | 57.41623378 | 86.81% | 1325 | 58.09% |
| University of Arizona (Eller) | 57.38602806 | 62.87% | 1255 | 56.48% |
| Lipscomb University | 57.22443248 | 86.21% | 1215 | 64.29% |
| University of Utah (Eccles) | 56.3609374 | 71.57% | 1255 | 45.68% |
| Marian University (Indiana) | 54.76502396 | 60.73% | 1070 | 43.48% |
| University of the Pacific | 54.35678449 | 67.30% | 1141 | 43.75% |
| Evansville University | 54.34088945 | 59.15% | 1169 | 34.29% |
| University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 53.98938122 | 67.97% | 1186 | 40.38% |
| Elon University | 53.88664282 | 72.00% | 1232 | 40.79% |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 53.80697137 | 75.46% | 1192 | 46.43% |
| Duquesne University | 53.36784709 | 79.54% | 1177 | 50.00% |
| University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 53.32293152 | 84.54% | 1255 | 49.35% |
| Auburn University (Harbert) | 52.92752148 | 81.51% | 1255 | 45.45% |
| University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam) | 52.83225817 | 93.12% | 1255 | 55.96% |
| St. Thomas University (Opus) | 51.60478716 | 88.00% | 1255 | 47.83% |
| Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 51.49171535 | 65.78% | 1175 | 32.20% |
| Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 51.42567148 | 81.72% | 1255 | 41.51% |
| Seattle University (Albers) | 51.33736431 | 82.12% | 1184 | 46.34% |
| Northern Illinois University | 51.26165528 | 60.83% | 1023 | 37.04% |
| Bowling Green State University | 50.90482822 | 74.54% | 1140 | 41.03% |
| Iowa State University (Ivy) | 50.50883763 | 84.15% | 1035 | 55.81% |
| University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 50.07264106 | 71.23% | 1183 | 32.82% |
| Hofstra University (Zarb) | 49.86744679 | 89.55% | 1206 | 47.73% |
| Sacred Heart University (Jack Welch) | 49.81267841 | 61.51% | 1208 | 21.43% |
| University of Akron | 48.85251928 | 95.14% | 1110 | 40.43% |
| Rutgers Business School – Newark | 48.03830154 | 74.99% | 1120 | 34.88% |
| Christopher Newport University (Luter) | 45.52075358 | 93.42% | 1213 | 38.89% |
| Oregon State University | 45.03826084 | 91.66% | 1118 | 42.22% |
| Ohio University | 42.60818487 | 90.34% | 1175 | 30.53% |
| Ithaca College | 42.39189276 | 85.45% | 1181 | 25.00% |
| University of Texas-Arlington | 42.29014951 | 87.34% | 1090 | 32.50% |
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