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Best MBA Programs in Texas
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This ranking scores 32 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.
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MBA programs in Texas ranked by graduate outcomes and value
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Top 3
Rice University
Houston, TX
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The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
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Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX
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Rice University
Houston, TX · 4,776 students · Private nonprofit
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX · 42,855 students · Public
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX · 11,026 students · Private nonprofit
The University of Texas at Dallas
Richardson, TX · 21,751 students · Public
University of North Texas
Denton, TX · 34,341 students · Public
The University of Texas Permian Basin
Odessa, TX · 3,911 students · Public
The University of Texas at Tyler
Tyler, TX · 7,440 students · Public
Texas Woman's University
Denton, TX · 8,767 students · Public
Texas A&M University-College Station
College Station, TX · 59,615 students · Public
The University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX · 32,294 students · Public
Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX · 32,394 students · Public
Texas State University
San Marcos, TX · 36,177 students · Public
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX · 7,277 students · Private nonprofit
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX · 30,580 students · Public
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX · 17,743 students · Public
East Texas A&M University
Commerce, TX · 9,912 students · Public
University of Dallas
Irving, TX · 1,403 students · Private nonprofit
Angelo State University
San Angelo, TX · 5,643 students · Public
Baylor University
Waco, TX · 14,785 students · Private nonprofit
Dallas Baptist University
Dallas, TX · 2,403 students · Private nonprofit
Concordia University Texas
Austin, TX · 1,185 students · Private nonprofit
Tarleton State University
Stephenville, TX · 12,673 students · Public
The University of Texas at El Paso
El Paso, TX · 21,005 students · Public
Midwestern State University
Wichita Falls, TX · 4,087 students · Public
University of Houston
Houston, TX · 38,380 students · Public
University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, TX · 4,440 students · Private nonprofit
Hardin-Simmons University
Abilene, TX · 1,283 students · Private nonprofit
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Houston, TX · 6,078 students · Public
Abilene Christian University
Abilene, TX · 3,195 students · Private nonprofit
Schreiner University
Kerrville, TX · 1,053 students · Private nonprofit
East Texas Baptist University
Marshall, TX · 1,352 students · Private nonprofit
LeTourneau University
Longview, TX · 1,468 students · Private nonprofit
Sources & Citations
Chetty, R., Friedman, J., Saez, E., Turner, N., & Yagan, D. (2017). Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility. NBER Working Paper No. 23618. →
U.S. Department of Education. College Scorecard Data. Federal Student Aid, National Center for Education Statistics. →
National Center for Education Statistics. Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). →
U.S. News & World Report. Best Business Schools MBA Rankings. Used for MBA program validation. →
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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