School Rank School

in 2002
Name
(BusinessWeek)
First Tier
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30

Northwestern
Chicago
Harvard
Stanford
Pennsylvania
MIT
Columbia
Michigan
Duke
Dartmouth
Cornell
Virginia
Berkeley
Yale
NYU
UCLA
USC
North Carolina
Carnegie Mellon
Indiana Univ
Texas -Austin
Emory
Michigan State
Washington Univ
Maryland
Purdue
Rochester
Vanderbilt
Notre Dame
Georgetown

Second Tier Arizona State

(alphabetical) Babson College
Boston College
BYU
UC Irvine
Case Western
Georgia Tech
Illinois
Univ of Iowa
Univ of Minnesota
Ohio State
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Rice Univ
Southern Methodist
Thunderbird

Fulltime
Student

International GMAT
TOEFL
Student
Scores
Score
(Average) (Average)

1250
992
1805
911
1604
744
1172
869
696
464
562
574
497
480
817
671
581
554
469
546
805
388
209
313
516
295
421
442
325
530

33%
31%
32%
32%
36%
35%
28%
30%
34%
29%
23%
27%
35%
34%
34%
23%
22%
27%
34%
30%
24%
31%
30%
33%
33%
33%
37%
22%
19%
35%

700
610-750
705

650
649

660-760
650-760
670-760
620-730
640-760
640-760
600-730
620-740
650-760
640-750
650-750
650-750
640-720
640-710
610-730
580-710
640-710
610-740
570-710
590-710
610-710
590-730
590-720
590-710
590-740
610-720

654
644
600 (min)
647
647
643
647
647
600 (min)
650
640
600
635
638
640
640
635
627
634
624
623
628
621
600 (min)

287
350
223
268
232
320
210
387
152
240
288
197
154
353
230
1100

20%
30%
25%
11%
22%
45%
20%
43%
42%
31%
32%
39%
40%
19%
20%
65%

600-710
590-720
600-710
580-710
640-730
520-730
590-700
570-700
560-700
570-710
590-710
580-710
550-680
590-670
590-720
530-680

630
600
628
610
635
622
634
627
637
628
638
637
628
640
623
617

% of student
with 1 year or less
work experience

0%
7%

654
642
3%

0%
1%
0%
0%
0%
2%
0%
0%
1%
0%
0%
2%
4%
11%
7%
3%
1%
2%
0%
4%
9%
4%
10%
12%
19%
27%
4%
15%
8%
20%
5%
1%
0%

Wake Forest
Univ of Washington
William and Mary
Wisconsin - Madison
Third Tier
(alphabetical) American Univ
Arizona
Boston Univ
UC Da

235
258
185
355

29%
28%
34%
32%

570-700
630-710
570-640
550-730

631
628
620
628

11%
4%
6%
9%

235
144
419

38%
22%
26%

520-660
580-660
570-690

600 (min)
623
638

8%
10%
10%

Estimated Total
Cost of the
MBA program (US$)

Number of
% of applicants
applicants in admitted
2002

$65,600
$65,912
$73,540
$66,000
$69,892
$64,940
$64,308
$65,372
$62,700
$67,155
$61,950
$61,688
$44,306
$60,730
$66,032
$45,184
$63,360
$57,982
$61,400
$46,900
$50,012
$58,816
$40,500
$60,580
$47,412
$46,064
$62,244
$58,320
$52,970
$60,000

7641
4732
10382
5864
8371
4102
6663
4048
3382
3266
2434
3334
4435
2517
4962
4570
2540
2016
1781
2522
2681
1532
919
1083
1688
1378
1584
1024
1104
2900

13%
15%
10%
8%
13%
13%
11%
19%
19%
14%
22%
18%
11%
15%
15%
15%
21%
30%
26%
22%
29%
24%
22%
35%
23%
26%
27%
47%
23%
23%

$40,210
$55,600
$48,250
$18,540
$45,560
$54,840
$37,496
$48,400
$36,422
$52,000
$45,617
$39,364
$41,142
$56,000
$55,296
$54,000

887
1008
1119
412
850
536
468
1157
501
765
1020
880
550
767
772
929

29%
39%
14%
44%
31%
48%
39%
31%
33%
40%
29%
24%
54%
39%
30%
80%

% of admitted
% graduates with
Median starting
applicants who
a job offer within 3 base salary
were interviewed month of graduation (US$)

100%

100%

100%
100%
100%
81%
59%
97%
36%
100%
100%
99%
100%
100%

85%

83400

86%
90%
86%
76%
95%
69%

76500
79000
77300
70000
78000
75000

$50,250
$35,138
$46,316
$48,736

577
999
252
1123

47%
32%
73%
27%

49%
59%
100%
25%

90%
63%
62%
74%

74000
66951
70000
75000

$45,864
$40,228
$27,042

469
281
1454

60%
58%
37%

100%
53%
52%

82%
78%
50%

55000
65000
70000

Top 15 recruiting firms

Medtronic, General Mills, Guidant, Honeywell, Northwest, Carlson, Target, Cargill, RBC, GE Capital, Kurt Salmon, Wells Fargo
Americna Electric, Ford, Ashland Chemical, Bank One, National City, Procter&Gamble, IBM, Nestle, Cardinal, GE, Kimberly-Cl
IBM, ExxonMobil, Johnson&Johnson, SC Johnson, Ther Hartford Financial, GE, Air Products, AMEX, Apple, Fisher, Ford, Pfize
FedEx, Ford Motor, Johnson&Johnson, Medrad, Ernst&Young, Amazon, Citibank, Eli Lily, Equitable Resources, Abbott Labs, K
Duke Energy, Exxon Mobil, Merrill Lynich, JPMorgan, Credit Suisse, BP, Shell Oil, Conoco, Philips, Pantellos, Kellogs, Kraft, De
Sabre, Safety Kleen, Wells Fargo, Celanese Chemicals, American Airlines, Exxon Mobil, Merrill Lynch, Wachovia Securities, S

Wachovia, Emerson, Ingersoll-Rand, RJ Reynolds, Progress Energy, BB&T, Philip Morris, Sara Lee, North Star, Bank of Ameri
Capital One, Amazon.com, GE Capaital, Philips, Starbucks, Washington Mutual Bank, Wells Fargon Bank, Microsoft, Boeing, D
KPMG, IBM, National City, BB&T, Wachovia, Nextel, Dominion, GE Capital, Delta Air, Lehman Brothers, General Mills, Merrill L
Guidant Corp, Kraft Foods, Lands' End, American Family Insurance, ANB Enterprises, Clorox, Deloitte Consulting, General Mil

, Kurt Salmon, Wells Fargo, Kimberley-Clark, Ecolab, IBM

, Cardinal, GE, Kimberly-Clarck, Lexmark
X, Apple, Fisher, Ford, Pfizer, PNC, WW Grainger, Black and Decker
Resources, Abbott Labs, Key Bank, National City Bank, Exelon, PNC Bank, Standard&Poors
Pantellos, Kellogs, Kraft, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, Erns & Young
ch, Wachovia Securities, Sara Lee, Campbell's Soup, PWC, JP Morgan, HBK Investments, SBC, Samsung

, North Star, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wake Forest Univ, King Pharmaceuticals, Kraft, Nike
n Bank, Microsoft, Boeing, Delloite, Lehman Brothers, Alliance of Angels, Eli Lilly, Intel, Johnson & Johnson
hers, General Mills, Merrill Lynch, McGraw-Hill, TRW, Brown&Williamson
tte Consulting, General Mills, Grainger, Philip Morris, Samsung, IBM, Lehman Brothers, Johnson&Johnson, Intel