The Best Business Schools in World by Forbes
| Rank | School | Location | Pre-MBA Salary | Tuition | GMAT |
| 1 | Chicago (Booth) | Chicago, IL | $83 K | $149 K | 730 |
| 2 | Stanford | Palo Alto, CA | $86 K | $144 K | 732 |
| 3 | Northwestern (Kellogg) | Evanston, IL | $76 K | $150 K | 740 |
| 4 | Harvard | Boston, MA | $88 K | $161 K | 730 |
| 5 | Pennsylvania (Wharton) | Philadelphia, PA | $92 K | $158 K | 732 |
| 6 | Dartmouth (Tuck) | Hanover, NH | $84 K | $153 K | 720 |
| 7 | Columbia | New York, NY | $82 K | $160 K | 740 |
| 7 | MIT (Sloan) | Cambridge, MA | $80 K | $154 K | 730 |
| 9 | Cornell (Johnson) | Ithaca, NY | $68 K | $142 K | 700 |
| 10 | Michigan (Ross) | Ann Arbor, MI | $72 K | $140 K | 720 |
| 11 | UC Berkeley (Haas) | Berkeley, CA | $88 K | $126 K | 730 |
| 11 | Yale | New Haven, CT | $68 K | $146 K | 730 |
| 13 | Virginia (Darden) | Charlottesville, VA | $70 K | $142 K | 720 |
| 14 | Duke (Fuqua) | Durham, NC | $70 K | $144 K | 710 |
| 15 | UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | Chapel Hill, NC | $65 K | $131 K | 700 |
| 16 | UCLA (Anderson) | Los Angeles, CA | $73 K | $131 K | 710 |
| 17 | Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | Pittsburgh, PA | $70 K | $134 K | 700 |
| 18 | Texas-Austin (McCombs) | Austin, TX | $68 K | $109 K | 710 |
| 19 | Indiana (Kelley) | Bloomington, IN | $55 K | $104 K | 680 |
| 20 | NYU (Stern) | New York, NY | $71 K | $153 K | 720 |
| 21 | USC (Marshall) | Los Angeles, CA | $64 K | $133 K | 710 |
| 22 | Emory (Goizueta) | Atlanta, GA | $58 K | $132 K | 680 |
| 23 | Washington (Foster) | Seattle, WA | $70 K | $100 K | 710 |
| 24 | Brigham Young (Marriott) | Provo, UT | $58 K | $53 K | 672 |
| 25 | Notre Dame (Mendoza) | South Bend, IN | $58 K | $112 K | 680 |
| 26 | Rice (Jones) | Houston, TX | $60 K | $125 K | 710 |
| 27 | Michigan State (Broad) | East Lansing, MI | $49 K | $103 K | 690 |
| 28 | Georgia Tech (Scheller) | Atlanta, GA | $59 K | $42 K | 690 |
| 29 | Washington U-St. Louis (Olin) | St. Louis, MO | $55 K | $119 K | 700 |
| 30 | Vanderbilt (Owen) | Nashville, TN | $64 K | $117 K | 680 |
| 31 | Georgetown (McDonough) | Washington, DC | $64 K | $119 K | 700 |
| 32 | Minnesota (Carlson) | Minneapolis, MN | $62 K | $104 K | 690 |
| 33 | Texas A&M (Mays) | College Station, TX | $59 K | $77 K | 640 |
| 34 | Penn State (Smeal) | University Park, PA | $50 K | $88 K | 657 |
| 35 | Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $65 K | $84 K | 680 |
| 36 | Utah (Eccles) | Salt Lake City, UT | $48 K | $60 K | 650 |
| 37 | Pittsburgh (Katz) | Pittsburgh, PA | $40 K | $67 K | 640 |
| 38 | Arizona State (Carey) | Tempe, AZ | $50 K | $97 K | 700 |
| 39 | Boston (Questrom) | Boston, MA | $55 K | $111 K | 690 |
| 40 | Purdue (Krannert) | West Lafayette, IN | $47 K | $85 K | 633 |
| 41 | Ohio State (Fisher) | Columbus, OH | $55 K | $107 K | 685 |
| 42 | Rochester (Simon) | Rochester, NY | $46 K | $94 K | 670 |
| 43 | UC Irvine (Merage) | Irvine, CA | $50 K | $107 K | 680 |
| 44 | William & Mary (Mason) | Williamsburg, VA | $44 K | $93 K | 620 |
| 45 | SMU (Cox) | Dallas, TX | $58 K | $106 K | 650 |
| 46 | Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | Dallas, TX | $43 K | $62 K | 670 |
| 47 | Maryland (Smith) | College Park, MD | $47 K | $110 K | 635 |
| 48 | Georgia (Terry) | Athens, GA | $48 K | $69 K | 680 |
| 49 | Buffalo | Buffalo, NY | $25 K | $57 K | 595 |
| 50 | Alabama (Manderson) | Tuscaloosa, AL | $30 K | $66 K | 650 |
| 51 | Rollins (Crummer) | Winter Park, FL | $27 K | $75 K | 550 |
| 52 | Case Western (Weatherhead) | Cleveland, OH | $46 K | $83 K | 625 |
| 53 | Missouri (Trulaske) | Columbia, MO | $33 K | $68 K | 620 |
| 54 | Tennessee (Haslam) | Knoxville, TN | $41 K | $63 K | 650 |
| 55 | Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $40 K | $100 K | 640 |
| 56 | UC Davis | Davis, CA | $50 K | $114 K | 660 |
| 57 | Willamette (Atkinson) | Salem, OR | $27 K | $86 K | 545 |
| 58 | Fordham (Gabelli) | New York, NY | $50 K | $103 K | 640 |
| 59 | Tulane (Freeman) | New Orleans, LA | $54 K | $117 K | 640 |
| 60 | Colorado (Leeds) | Boulder, CO | $47 K | $63 K | 610 |
| 61 | Pepperdine (Graziadio) | Los Angeles, CA | $45 K | $101 K | 600 |
