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Nearly 50% of Top MBA Grads Owe Six-Figure Debt

We asked 10,473 MBA graduates from the class of 2018 how much they borrowed to pay for school. Survey choices were in brackets of $50,000. To give a feel for how quickly students could pay off their student loans, we contrasted debt outstanding with the median starting salary at each school, based on data we collected for our Best B-Schools Rankings. Some patterns emerged. Nearly half the students at some of the top-ranked business schools had debt outstanding of at least $100,000. Students graduating from schools outside the U.S. generally had far less debt. Read the story here.

Also see student insights on: MBA Debt Student Satisfaction Employer Funding

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#16 Duke (Fuqua)

47% in six-figure debt

#20 Dartmouth (Tuck)

46% in six-figure debt

#19 Michigan (Ross)

43% in six-figure debt

#11 Cornell (Johnson)

41% in six-figure debt

#5 Chicago (Booth)

40% in six-figure debt

#2 Pennsylvania (Wharton)

37% in six-figure debt

#4 MIT (Sloan)

36% in six-figure debt

#26 UNC (Kenan-Flagler)

35% in six-figure debt

#12 Yale

35% in six-figure debt

#21 Georgetown (McDonough)

34% in six-figure debt

#27 Emory (Goizueta)

34% in six-figure debt

#14 NYU (Stern)

34% in six-figure debt

#9 Virginia (Darden)

33% in six-figure debt

#8 Northwestern (Kellogg)

33% in six-figure debt

#1 Stanford

32% in six-figure debt

#7 Columbia

31% in six-figure debt

#13 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)

30% in six-figure debt

#23 UT at Austin (McCombs)

29% in six-figure debt

#77 Pepperdine (Graziadio)

27% in six-figure debt

#6 UC at Berkeley (Haas)

25% in six-figure debt

#37 Washington in St. Louis (Olin)

25% in six-figure debt

#38 Howard

24% in six-figure debt

#18 UCLA (Anderson)

23% in six-figure debt

#3 Harvard

23% in six-figure debt

#23 London Business School

22% in six-figure debt

#22 Vanderbilt (Owen)

21% in six-figure debt

#14 USC (Marshall)

19% in six-figure debt

#28 IESE Business School

17% in six-figure debt

#59 George Washington

16% in six-figure debt

#32 Indiana (Kelley)

16% in six-figure debt

#90 American (Kogod)

15% in six-figure debt

#74 Miami

15% in six-figure debt

#36 Notre Dame (Mendoza)

14% in six-figure debt

#70 Case Western Reserve (Weatherhead)

14% in six-figure debt

#57 Tulane (Freeman)

13% in six-figure debt

#48 Southern Methodist (Cox)

13% in six-figure debt

#30 Rice (Jones)

13% in six-figure debt

#64 Michigan State (Broad)

13% in six-figure debt

#91 Chapman (Argyros)

13% in six-figure debt

#50 UC at Irvine (Merage)

12% in six-figure debt

#68 Babson (Olin)

12% in six-figure debt

#56 Western (Ivey)

11% in six-figure debt

#54 Rochester (Simon)

10% in six-figure debt

#74 UC at San Diego (Rady)

10% in six-figure debt

#25 INSEAD

9% in six-figure debt

#76 Fordham (Gabelli)

9% in six-figure debt

#73 Rutgers

9% in six-figure debt

#87 McGill (Desautels)

8% in six-figure debt

#69 Boston University (Questrom)

8% in six-figure debt

#71 Boston College (Carroll)

7% in six-figure debt

#111 Bentley

7% in six-figure debt

#33 Minnesota (Carlson)

7% in six-figure debt

#117 Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders)

7% in six-figure debt

#92 Cincinnati (Lindner)

7% in six-figure debt

#82 Pittsburgh (Katz)

6% in six-figure debt

#100 Hult

6% in six-figure debt

#85 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

6% in six-figure debt

#122 Oregon (Lundquist)

6% in six-figure debt

#89 HKUST

6% in six-figure debt

#44 ESADE

6% in six-figure debt

#63 Baylor (Hankamer)

6% in six-figure debt

#66 Queen's (Smith)

6% in six-figure debt

#41 Maryland (Smith)

6% in six-figure debt

#81 CEIBS

6% in six-figure debt

#Unranked Hofstra (Zarb)

6% in six-figure debt

#31 Georgia Tech (Scheller)

5% in six-figure debt

#124 EAE (Madrid)

5% in six-figure debt

#121 Denver (Daniels)

5% in six-figure debt

#53 Ohio State (Fisher)

5% in six-figure debt

#98 Manchester

5% in six-figure debt

#106 Willamette (Atkinson)

5% in six-figure debt

#17 Washington (Foster)

4% in six-figure debt

#35 William and Mary (Mason)

4% in six-figure debt

#102 SUNY University at Buffalo

4% in six-figure debt

#83 IE

3% in six-figure debt

#47 UC at Davis

3% in six-figure debt

#62 Georgia (Terry)

3% in six-figure debt

#42 Utah (Eccles)

3% in six-figure debt

#123 Politecnico di Milano

3% in six-figure debt

#72 San Diego

3% in six-figure debt

#46 Texas Christian (Neeley)

3% in six-figure debt

#45 Penn State (Smeal)

3% in six-figure debt

#80 Cranfield

3% in six-figure debt

#93 Melbourne

3% in six-figure debt

#52 HEC Paris

3% in six-figure debt

#78 Northeastern (D'Amore-McKim)

3% in six-figure debt

#51 Oxford (Saïd)

2% in six-figure debt

#101 ESMT Berlin

2% in six-figure debt

#34 Cambridge (Judge)

2% in six-figure debt

#10 IMD

2% in six-figure debt

#105 Texas Tech (Rawls)

2% in six-figure debt

#29 Brigham Young (Marriott)

1% in six-figure debt

#110 Baruch (Zicklin)

0% in six-figure debt

#108 National University of Singapore

0% in six-figure debt

#88 Mississippi

0% in six-figure debt

#96 Arizona (Eller)

0% in six-figure debt

#118 Kentucky (Gatton)

0% in six-figure debt

#84 Copenhagen

0% in six-figure debt

#113 Tampa (Sykes)

0% in six-figure debt

#61 Purdue (Krannert)

0% in six-figure debt

#Unranked Florida International (Chapman)

0% in six-figure debt

#79 Colorado at Boulder (Leeds)

0% in six-figure debt

#115 Houston (Bauer)

0% in six-figure debt

#60 Texas A&M (Mays)

0% in six-figure debt

#65 Tennessee (Haslam)

0% in six-figure debt

#86 Connecticut

0% in six-figure debt

#120 San Diego State (Fowler)

0% in six-figure debt

#103 Alberta

0% in six-figure debt

#39 SDA Bocconi

0% in six-figure debt

#115 Ryerson (Rogers)

0% in six-figure debt

#119 HEC Montreal

0% in six-figure debt

#112 City, University of London (Cass)

0% in six-figure debt

#58 North Carolina State (Poole)

0% in six-figure debt

#43 UT at Dallas (Jindal)

0% in six-figure debt

#67 Florida (Hough)

0% in six-figure debt

#109 ESIC

0% in six-figure debt

#99 Imperial College of London

0% in six-figure debt

#95 Concordia (Molson)

0% in six-figure debt

#49 Wisconsin

0% in six-figure debt

#104 Oklahoma (Price)

0% in six-figure debt

#97 Syracuse (Whitman)

0% in six-figure debt

#40 Arizona State (Carey)

0% in six-figure debt

#55 Mannheim

0% in six-figure debt

#114 South Carolina (Darla Moore)

0% in six-figure debt

#94 Auburn (Harbert)

0% in six-figure debt

#107 Missouri (Trulaske)

0% in six-figure debt