10 Business Schools With the Lowest Acceptance Rates

Graduate School Business School - MBA
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“These schools accepted around 14 percent of MBA applicants on average for fall 2017, U.S. News data show.” …

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/the-short-list-grad-school/articles/10-business-schools-with-the-lowest-acceptance-rates

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The top ten MBA programs with the lowest acceptance rates out of approximately 470 schools are:

  1. Stanford

  2. Harvard

  3. MIT

  4. UCal-Berkeley

  5. Columbia

  6. Univ. of Florida

  7. Penn State

  8. Yale

  9. Penn-Wharton

  10. Northwestern-Kellogg

But the list would change if based on placement & pay. (Harvard, Penn-Wharton & Northwestern-Kellogg might top that list.)

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I believe the highest paid MBAs last year were from MIT $286,000 ollowed by Harvard with $255,000. This according to articles I read on Business Insider and Bloomberg.

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If based upon average net worth at the end of the day, Stanford might be the winner as a significant percentage of their students take entrepreneurial paths, with lower initial salaries but attractive lottery tickets.

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^^ Not everyone succeeds at Stanford as many startups go bust.

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^Of course, @cbreeze. However, VC-backed co-founders in Silicon Valley seem to be pretty well paid. And big outliers in wealth would really affect the average. Stanford GSB alums have founded a lot of very successful companies. Trader Joe’s, Charles Schwab, Nike, Trulia, eBay (Jeff Skoll was founding president), Trulia, OK Cupid, etc.

What does seem to exist there is an eco-system that substantially increases the probability of success.

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Then you can say about Harvard, Wharton as well as they are older and more established B schools with lots of history of "old’ money.

I know, I am an alum and I live in Silicon Valley.