Based on data reported by the schools themselves, 55 of 62 schools in the 2017 Poets&Quants undergraduate B-school ranking graduate 30% of more of their students with some debt. The school with the highest percentage of students with debt: Providence College, with 73%; the lowest: the University of Texas-Dallas Jindal School of Management, where fewer than 8% carry debt past graduation. The school with the highest average amount of per-student debt: Drexel LeBow, where students graduate $43,894 in debt. Twenty schools reported no debt data.
School | Percent with Debt | Average Debt |
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Providence College | 73.0% | $36,011 |
New Hampshire (Paul) | 72.6% | $39,129 |
The College of New Jersey | 70.0% | $36,000 |
Northern Illinois | 70.0% | $30,167 |
Ithaca College | 69.0% | $42,016 |
Sacred Heart (Jack Welch) | 64.8% | $40,033 |
Bowling Green State | 63.8% | $27,921 |
Massachusetts- Amherst (Isenberg) | 60.6% | $27,488 |
UC-Irvine (Merage) | 59.3% | $20,628 |
St. Joseph's University | 59.0% | $32,533 |
Seton Hall (Stillman) | 58.6% | $22,101 |
St. John's (Tobin) | 58.0% | $26,743 |
Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Foisie) | 57.0% | $26,755 |
Temple (Fox) | 56.6% | $25,623 |
Lipscomb University | 56.0% | $31,082 |
Fordham (Gabelli) | 52.0% | $17,856 |
Christopher Newport (Luter) | 52.0% | $28,850 |
Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead) | 51.0% | $36,000 |
South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 49.5% | $33,666 |
Rutgers Business School (Newark) | 49.0% | $27,881 |
Rutgers Business School (New Brunswick) | 48.4% | $23,427 |
Pennsylvania State (Smeal) | 47.0% | $36,500 |
University of San Diego | 47.0% | $22,200 |
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) | 47.0% | $14,326 |
Syracuse (Whitman) | 47.0% | $36,734 |
Minnesota (Carlson) | 46.0% | $25,953 |
George Washington | 46.0% | $33,305 |
St. Louis (Cook) | 45.9% | $18,319 |
Colorado State | 45.4% | $19,677 |
Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 45.0% | $29,271 |
Drexel (LeBow) | 44.0% | $43,894 |
Lehigh | 44.0% | $35,413 |
Oklahoma State (Spears) | 43.0% | $23,293 |
Babson College | 40.0% | $35,013 |
Arizona State (W. P. Carey) | 40.0% | $13,181 |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | 39.0% | $24,191 |
Utah (Eccles) | 38.6% | $21,081 |
Miami (Farmer) | 37.1% | $30,104 |
University of Wisconsin-Madison | 36.0% | $32,597 |
Georgia (Terry) | 36.0% | $22,902 |
Oklahoma (Price) | 36.0% | $26,512 |
Texas A&M (Mays) | 36.0% | $22,858 |
Michigan State (Broad) | 36.0% | $26,516 |
American (Kogod) | 36.0% | $32,249 |
Santa Clara (Leavey) | 35.5% | $30,680 |
College of William & Mary (Mason) | 35.0% | $26,400 |
Richmond (Robins) | 35.0% | $26,562 |
NYU (Stern) | 34.4% | $24,599 |
Cornell (Dyson) | 34.3% | $19,513 |
Elon (Love) | 34.0% | $29,731 |
Indiana (Kelley) | 33.4% | $8,938 |
Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 33.0% | $24,830 |
Virginia (McIntire) | 33.0% | $20,000 |
Tulane (Freeman) | 30.0% | $30,113 |
UT-Austin (McCombs) | 30.0% | $23,425 |
Southern Methodist (Cox) | 29.2% | $31,114 |
Purdue (Krannert) | 28.3% | $25,863 |
University of Miami (FL) | 28.0% | $32,044 |
Emory (Goizueta) | 27.0% | $28,315 |
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 26.0% | $25,888 |
Wake Forest | 19.0% | $16,832 |
UT-Dallas (Jindal) | 7.15% | $21,163.00 |
University of Pittsburgh | N/A | N/A |
Georgetown (McDonough) | N/A | N/A |
UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | N/A | N/A |
Seattle (Albers) | N/A | N/A |
Brigham Young (Marriott) | N/A | N/A |
Boston (Questrom) | N/A | N/A |
Maryland (Smith) | N/A | N/A |
Texas Christian (Neeley) | N/A | N/A |
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | N/A | N/A |
Denver (Daniels) | N/A | N/A |
Wharton | N/A | N/A |
UC-Berkeley (Haas) | N/A | N/A |
Michigan (Ross) | N/A | N/A |
Villanova | N/A | N/A |
Northeastern (D'Amore McKim) | N/A | N/A |
Washington (Foster) | N/A | N/A |
James Madison | N/A | N/A |
Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | N/A | N/A |
Hult International Business School | N/A | N/A |
University of St. Thomas (Opus) | N/A | N/A |