M.B.A. Applications Keep Falling in U.S., This Year Hitting Even Elite Schools

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Among the most prestigious MBA programs, the M-7, all saw decreases in the number of applications.

  1. Columbia -2.6% apps decreased from 6,188 to 6,029.

  2. Northwestern (Kellogg) -2.7% apps decreased from 4,595 to 4,471.

  3. MIT (Sloan) -4.3% apps decreased from 5,798 to 5,560.

  4. Harvard Business School -4.5% apps decreased from 10,351 to 9,886.

  5. Stanford GSB -4.6% apps decreased from 8,173 to 7,797.

  6. UPenn (Wharton) -6.7% apps decreased from 6,692 to 6,245.

  7. Chicago (Booth) -8.2% apps decreased from 4,674 to 4,289.

Only three of the top 29 MBA programs saw an increase in applications last admissions cycle:

Dartmouth (Tuck) saw a slight increase in number (+11) of applications of 0.4% --from 2,610 to 2,621.
USC (Marshall) saw an increase (+19) of 1.0% (one percent) in applications from 1,998 to 2,017.
While UCLA’s Anderson School of Business saw the largest increase (+3.3%) in number (109) of apps from 3,314 to 3,423.