Finance
Ranked in 2017, part of Best Business Schools
The top business schools for finance prepare graduates to work in business administration and management. Students can often specialize in areas like investment banking and corporate finance. These are the top business schools for finance.
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Save | Rank | School name | Tuition | Enrollment (full-time) | Average GMAT score (full-time) | Acceptance rate (full-time) | Full-time graduates employed at graduation | |||||
#1 | University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) Philadelphia, PA | $67,516 per year (full-time) | 1,708 | 730 | 19.6% | 85.8% | ||||||
#2 | University of Chicago (Booth) Chicago, IL | $66,540 per year (full-time) | 1,185 | 726 | 23.6% | 84.9% | ||||||
#3 | New York University (Stern) New York, NY | $66,588 per year (full-time) | 790 | 710 | 23.1% | 82.1% | ||||||
#4 | Columbia University New York, NY | $68,792 per year (full-time) | 1,326 | 720 | 14.1% | 77.3% | ||||||
#5 | Stanford University Stanford, CA | $66,540 per year (full-time) | 833 | 737 | 6% | 62.8% | ||||||
#6 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) Cambridge, MA | $67,938 per year (full-time) | 809 | 724 | 11.7% | 81.2% | ||||||
#7 | University of California—Berkeley (Haas) Berkeley, CA | $56,009 per year (in-state, full-time); $57,560 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 502 | 717 | 12% | 68.6% | ||||||
#8 | Harvard University Boston, MA | $63,675 per year (full-time) | 1,871 | 729 | 10.7% | 79.3% | ||||||
#9 | University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (Ross) Ann Arbor, MI | $59,350 per year (in-state, full-time); $64,350 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 801 | 708 | 26.3% | 85.6% | ||||||
#10 | University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) Los Angeles, CA | $52,272 per year (in-state, full-time); $55,159 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 734 | 715 | 20.7% | 73.8% | ||||||
#11 | Northwestern University (Kellogg) Evanston, IL | $66,462 per year (full-time) | 1,301 | 728 | 20.1% | 82.8% | ||||||
#12 | Duke University (Fuqua) Durham, NC | $63,200 per year (full-time) | 896 | 695 | 22.1% | 83.1% | ||||||
#13 | University of Rochester (Simon) Rochester, NY | $46,000 per year (full-time) | 204 | 665 | 33.6% | 78.6% | ||||||
#14Tie | Creighton University Omaha, NE | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
#14Tie | University of Texas—Austin (McCombs) Austin, TX | $34,296 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,296 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 521 | 699 | 28% | 77.5% | ||||||
#16Tie | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) Pittsburgh, PA | $61,440 per year (full-time) | 428 | 686 | 30.3% | 76% | ||||||
#16Tie | Fordham University (Gabelli) New York, NY | $1,397 per credit (full-time) | 78 | 621 | 46.7% | 51.1% | ||||||
#18Tie | Boston College (Carroll) Chestnut Hill, MA | $47,340 per year (full-time) | 174 | 667 | 38.2% | 75.3% | ||||||
#18Tie | Cornell University (Johnson) Ithaca, NY | $61,584 per year (full-time) | 580 | 700 | 27.6% | 79.8% | ||||||
#18Tie | Ohio State University (Fisher) Columbus, OH | $30,120 per year (in-state, full-time); $50,568 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 206 | 671 | 31.7% | 80% | ||||||
#21Tie | Fairfield University (Dolan) Fairfield, CT | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
#21Tie | St. Joseph's University (Haub) Philadelphia, PA | $1,003 per credit (full-time) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | ||||||
#23 | Loyola University Maryland (Sellinger) Baltimore, MD | $58,000 per program (full-time) | 20 | 587 | 84.2% | N/A | ||||||
#24 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) St. Louis, MO | $55,400 per year (full-time) | 268 | 688 | 29.7% | 78.5% | ||||||
#25Tie | Indiana University (Kelley) Bloomington, IN | $25,500 per year (in-state, full-time); $44,460 per year (out-of-state, full-time) | 370 | 670 | 31.4% | 83.9% |