ADMISSION STANDARDS
For the third straight year, No. 1 overall Indiana University (Kelley) had the toughest admission standards in our ranking.
Within this category, we gave the average undergraduate GPA of the most recent incoming class a 30% weight, average years of work experience a 30% weight, acceptance rate a 20% weight, and average adjusted GMAT score a 20% weight.
Kelley was the most selective of all the schools with a 28% acceptance rate, while Bryant University and Jack Welch Management Institute had the highest average work experience at 15 years. University of Maryland (Smith) boasted the highest undergraduate GPA at 3.8. And, University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal) had the highest adjusted GMAT average.
Below is the Admissions Standards rank (accounting for 33% of the overall rank) for all 51 schools.
Ranking Online MBA on Admissions Standards |
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Admissions Rank | School Names | Admissions Total |
2024 Overall Rank
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1 | Indiana University (Kelley) | 100.00 | 1 |
2 | University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal) | 95.70 | 3 |
3 | Jack Welch Management Institute | 88.89 | 8 |
4 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 82.53 | 7 |
5 | University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Isenberg) | 77.65 | 12 |
6 | Bryant University | 77.02 | 24 |
7 | University of Tennessee at Chattanooga | 76.99 | 14 |
8 | University of Wisconsin MBA Consortium | 75.81 | 21 |
9 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 75.50 | 5 |
10 | University of Washington (Foster) | 74.29 | 2 |
11 | Auburn University (Harbert) | 72.18 | 10 |
12 | University of Cincinnati (Lindner) | 72.14 | 35 |
13 | University of Michigan (Ross) | 71.01 | 4 |
14 | Rice University (Jones) | 67.99 | 6 |
15 | University of Utah (Eccles) | 66.11 | 17 |
16 | University of South Florida (Muma) | 64.82 | 23 |
17 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 62.70 | 28 |
18 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 60.28 | 41 |
19 | Villanova University | 57.78 | 26 |
20 | University of Southern California (Marshall) | 57.67 | 9 |
21 | University of Massachusetts-Lowell | 57.51 | 37 |
22 | University of Maryland (Smith) | 57.21 | 32 |
23 | Rogers State University | 54.47 | 42 |
24 | University of Florida (Warrington) | 52.39 | 15 |
25 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln | 52.06 | 25 |
26 | University of California, Davis | 51.46 | 19 |
27 | Baylor University (Hankamer) | 50.35 | 13 |
28 | SUNY Oswego | 49.01 | 45 |
29 | Hofstra University (Zarb) | 48.87 | 18 |
30 | North Carolina State University (Jenkins) | 44.76 | 27 |
31 | Kennesaw State University | 44.22 | 47 |
32 | Santa Clara University | 43.93 | 11 |
33 | Lehigh University | 43.53 | 16 |
34 | Washington State University | 43.02 | 31 |
35 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 42.38 | 44 |
36 | Louisiana State University (Ourso) | 42.35 | 49 |
37 | Florida International University | 41.99 | 36 |
38 | University of Denver (Daniels) | 40.25 | 30 |
39 | Drexel University (LeBow) | 40.00 | 43 |
40 | University of Iowa | 39.81 | 34 |
41 | Creighton University | 39.59 | 40 |
42 | University of Delaware (Lerner) | 38.34 | 46 |
43 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 36.14 | 29 |
44 | Bowling Green State University | 34.67 | 33 |
45 | University of North Texas (Ryan) | 34.62 | 50 |
46 | Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 34.12 | 20 |
47 | Pepperdine University (Graziadio) | 31.12 | 39 |
48 | Clemson University | 24.67 | 51 |
49 | William & Mary (Mason) | 24.54 | 22 |
50 | Ohio University | 21.99 | 38 |
51 | American University (Kogod) | 0.00 | 48 |
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