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Best MBA Programs for Business Analytics
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This ranking scores 42 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
How We Ranked
MBA programs ranked for Business Analytics — graduate earnings, business-program strength and Computer Science & IT program depth, and institutional outcomes. Limited to schools verified to officially offer an MBA concentration in Business Analytics.
Read our full methodology →Quick Numbers
Earnings Outcomes
What graduates earn 10 years after enrolling. Data from College Scorecard.
Distribution of Median Earnings
Earnings vs. Net Price
Top-left = best value. Top-ranked schools are highlighted.
Completion & Access
Graduation rates and who gets in. Data from College Scorecard & IPEDS.
Graduation Rates
Pell Grant Rate vs. Graduation Rate
Right = more low-income students. Higher = more graduate.
Social Mobility
Mobility rate = % of students who start in the bottom income quintile and reach the top. Data from Opportunity Insights.
Mobility Rate Distribution
Mobility vs. Cost
Higher mobility at lower cost = life-changing value.
Cost & Debt
What families actually pay and what students owe. Data from College Scorecard.
Median Debt at Graduation
Where These Schools Are Located
Rank Overview
All ranked schools. Bar length shows earnings relative to the top school.
| # | School | Earnings | Grad Rate | Net Price | Debt | Pell % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Babson College Wellesley, MA | $124K | 93% | $41K | $20K | 16% |
| #2 | Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA | $115K | 93% | $32K | $22K | 16% |
| #3 | Georgia Institute of Techn… Atlanta, GA | $103K | 93% | $12K | $22K | 14% |
| #4 | Bentley University Waltham, MA | $121K | 88% | $38K | $25K | 16% |
| #5 | University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | $100K | 96% | $27K | $19K | 14% |
| #6 | Boston College Chestnut Hill, MA | $104K | 91% | $42K | $19K | 13% |
| #7 | Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA | $109K | 88% | $50K | $19K | 11% |
| #8 | CUNY Bernard M Baruch Coll… New York, NY | $76K | 72% | $3K | $12K | 57% |
| #9 | University of Southern Cal… Los Angeles, CA | $92K | 92% | $33K | $18K | 22% |
| #10 | Northeastern University Boston, MA | $93K | 90% | $31K | $24K | 12% |
| #11 | Villanova University Villanova, PA | $100K | 92% | $44K | $26K | 12% |
| #12 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Ins… Troy, NY | $102K | 83% | $36K | $24K | 20% |
| #13 | Emory University Atlanta, GA | $80K | 91% | $23K | $18K | 18% |
| #14 | University of California-D… Davis, CA | $81K | 85% | $15K | $13K | 31% |
| #15 | Virginia Polytechnic Insti… Blacksburg, VA | $82K | 86% | $25K | $22K | 15% |
| #16 | Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC | $78K | 90% | $29K | $22K | 10% |
| #17 | Binghamton University Vestal, NY | $81K | 83% | $22K | $19K | 28% |
| #18 | The University of Texas at… Austin, TX | $75K | 88% | $20K | $21K | 26% |
| #19 | New York University New York, NY | $83K | 88% | $37K | $21K | 18% |
| #20 | University of San Diego San Diego, CA | $87K | 83% | $30K | $23K | 21% |
| #21 | Fairfield University Fairfield, CT | $89K | 84% | $48K | $26K | 7% |
| #22 | George Mason University Fairfax, VA | $76K | 69% | $18K | $20K | 30% |
| #23 | University of Rochester Rochester, NY | $79K | 85% | $29K | $21K | 17% |
| #24 | University of Virginia-Mai… Charlottesville, VA | $87K | 95% | $22K | $18K | 16% |
| #25 | Clarkson University Potsdam, NY | $90K | 74% | $30K | $26K | 22% |
| #26 | Pepperdine University Malibu, CA | $83K | 84% | $58K | $24K | 20% |
| #27 | University of Illinois Urb… Champaign, IL | $81K | 85% | $14K | $20K | 23% |
| #28 | Saint Mary's College of Ca… Moraga, CA | $79K | 70% | $30K | $24K | 27% |
| #29 | University of Miami Coral Gables, FL | $75K | 84% | $37K | $18K | 15% |
| #30 | University of Connecticut Storrs, CT | $74K | 84% | $25K | $22K | 25% |
| #31 | Seattle University Seattle, WA | $75K | 74% | $35K | $20K | 24% |
| #32 | Brandeis University Waltham, MA | $77K | 86% | $36K | $26K | 15% |
| #33 | Siena College Loudonville, NY | $76K | 75% | $34K | $27K | 24% |
| #34 | Syracuse University Syracuse, NY | $79K | 82% | $39K | $26K | 17% |
| #35 | University of Scranton Scranton, PA | $75K | 80% | $33K | $27K | 24% |
| #36 | University of Connecticut-… Hartford, CT | $74K | 65% | $16K | $22K | 46% |
| #37 | Rochester Institute of Tec… Rochester, NY | $77K | 70% | $35K | $27K | 27% |
| #38 | Merrimack College North Andover, MA | $76K | 71% | $38K | $27K | 16% |
| #39 | Rutgers University-Camden Camden, NJ | $74K | 67% | $19K | $22K | 48% |
| #40 | Drexel University Philadelphia, PA | $85K | 78% | $39K | $25K | 27% |
| #41 | Sacred Heart University Fairfield, CT | $75K | 74% | $46K | $25K | 16% |
| #42 | Thomas Jefferson University Philadelphia, PA | $77K | 68% | $29K | $15K | 37% |
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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