MBA applications this past year fell at 18 out of the top 20 U.S. business schools in 2017-2018. Only two top 20 schools bucked the trend: Dartmouth Tuck & UCLA Anderson
School | Year-Over-Year Change In MBA Apps | 2017-2018 Apps | 2016-2017 Apps |
---|---|---|---|
Rice (Jones) | -27.7%-27.7 | 587587 | 813813 |
Vanderbilt (Owen) | -23.9%-23.9 | 712712 | 936936 |
Minnesota (Carlson) | -20.5%-20.5 | 529529 | 665665 |
Texas-Austin (McCombs) | -19.6%-19.6 | 2,0782078 | 2,5862586 |
UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | -18.3%-18.3 | 1,7581758 | 2,1512151 |
Virginia (Darden) | -16.7%-16.7 | 2,2792279 | 2,7362736 |
Georgetown (McDonough) | -16.2%-16.2 | 1,4591459 | 1,7421742 |
Indiana (Kelley) | -13.2%-13.2 | 1,0821082 | 1,2471247 |
Washington (Foster) | -10.0%-10 | 934934 | 1,0381038 |
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | -9.7%-9.7 | 1,6561656 | 1,8331833 |
Notre Dame (Mendoza) | -8.7%-8.7 | 578578 | 633633 |
Michigan (Ross) | -8.5%-8.5 | 3,1883188 | 3,4853485 |
Chicago (Booth) | -8.2%-8.2 | 4,2894289 | 4,6744674 |
Yale SOM | -7.6%-7.6 | 3,7853785 | 4,0984098 |
UC-Berkeley (Haas) | -7.5%-7.5 | 3,8213821 | 4,1324132 |
Emory (Goizueta) | -6.8%-6.8 | 1,3481348 | 1,4461446 |
Pennsylvania (Wharton) | -6.7%-6.7 | 6,2456245 | 6,6926692 |
Duke (Fuqua) | -6.2%-6.2 | 3,5573557 | 3,7963796 |
Washington (Olin) | -5.0%-5 | 1,1151115 | 1,1741174 |
Stanford GSB | -4.6%-4.6 | 7,7977797 | 8,1738173 |
Harvard Business School | -4.5%-4.5 | 9,8869886 | 10,35110351 |
MIT (Sloan) | -4.3%-4.3 | 5,5605560 | 5,7985798 |
NYU (Stern) | -3.7%-3.7 | 3,7813781 | 3,9273927 |
Cornell (Johnson) | -3.2%-3.2 | 1,6001600 | 1,6531653 |
Northwestern (Kellogg) | -2.7%-2.7 | 4,4714471 | 4,5954595 |
Columbia | -2.6%-2.6 | 6,0296029 | 6,1886188 |
Dartmouth (Tuck) | 0.4%0.4 | 2,6212621 | 2,6102610 |
USC (Marshall) | 1.0%1 | 2,0172017 | 1,9981998 |
UCLA (Anderson) | 3.3%3.3 | 3,4233423 | 3,3143314 |