5-yr gain

Salary

Rank

Name

Location

Total¹($thou)

As % Of Expenses²(%)

Years To Break Even

Pre-MBA ($thou)

2008 ($thou)

Tuition³($thou)

GMAT

1

Stanford

Stanford, CA

85

38

4.2

82

225

102

730

2

Dartmouth (Tuck)

Hanover, NH

80

39

4.0

70

205

94

720

3

Harvard

Boston, MA

79

34

4.0

82

215

102

720

4

Chicago (Booth)

Chicago, IL

63

30

4.2

71

210

97

720

5

Pennsylvania (Wharton)

Philadelphia, PA

57

27

4.4

75

200

100

715

6

Columbia

New York, NY

57

28

4.2

70

182

99

710

7

Cornell (Johnson)

Ithaca, NY

57

32

4.1

60

168

92

700

8

Northwestern (Kellogg)

Evanston, IL

52

27

4.2

66

165

96

710

9

Virginia (Darden)

Charlottesville, VA

50

28

4.2

60

159

93

700

10

Yale

New Haven, CT

46

26

4.3

57

160

93

720

11

Texas-Austin (McCombs)

Austin, TX

44

29

4.2

57

125

81

690

12

UC Berkeley (Haas)

Berkeley, CA

43

26

4.2

67

163

86

710

13

Duke (Fuqua)

Durham, NC

43

24

4.3

62

148

93

700

14

MIT (Sloan)

Cambridge, MA

42

20

4.4

70

190

96

710

15

UNC (Kenan-Flagler)

Chapel Hill, NC

41

28

4.2

55

142

86

690

16

Brigham Young (Marriott)

Provo, UT

41

39

3.9

45

105

38

680

17

NYU (Stern)

New York, NY

37

20

4.3

62

170

89

710

18

Michigan (Ross)

Ann Arbor, MI

37

20

4.3

62

155

93

710

19

UCLA (Anderson)

Los Angeles, CA

35

21

4.4

68

160

83

710

20

Iowa (Tippie)

Iowa City, IA

35

30

4.2

43

112

53

660