The ideal age when you enter a full-time MBA program? 28. But Stanford, Harvard, Virginia Darden and Michigan Ross skew slightly younger at 27, while entering MBAs at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business and Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business are a year older at 29.
| P&Q 2019-2020 Rank & School | Average Age | Work Experience (months) |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Stanford GSB | 27 | 53 |
| 2. Chicago (Booth) | 28 | 60 |
| 3. Harvard Business School | 27 | 55 |
| 4. Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 28 | 60 |
| 5. Northwestern (Kellogg) | 28 | 61 |
| 6. MIT (Sloan) | 28 | 59 |
| 7. Columbia Business School | 28 | 60 |
| 8. UC-Berkeley (Haas) | 28 | 65 |
| 9. Dartmouth (Tuck) | 28 | 63 |
| 10. Yale School of Management | 28 | 58 |
| 11. Virginia (Darden) | 27 | 61 |
| 12. Michigan (Ross) | 27 | 65 |
| 13. Cornell (Johnson) | 28 | 59 |
| 14. Duke (Fuqua) | 29 | 67 |
| 15. UCLA (Anderson) | 28 | 61 |
| 16. New York (Stern) | 28 | 63 |
| 17. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 28 | 68 |
| 18. Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 28 | 66 |
| 19. Southern California (Marshall) | 28 | 62 |
| 20. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 28 | 65 |
| 21. Washington (Foster) | 29 | 73 |
| 22. Emory (Goizueta) | 28 | 67 |
| 23. Indiana (Kelley) | 28 | 66 |
| 24. Georgetown (McDonough) | 28 | 67 |
| 25. Rice (Jones) | 29 | 66 |
