The Most Expensive Executive MBA Programs On Earth
School | Total Tuition | Increase Since 2011 | 2011 Tuition | App Fee |
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1. University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $181,500 | 5.4% | $172,200* | $180 |
2. Northwestern University (Kellogg) | $180,084 | 17.0% | $153,900 | $150 |
3. Columbia Business School | $175,200 | 18.1% | $148,320 | $250 |
4. New York University (Stern) | $170,200 | 18.2% | $144,000 | $215 |
5. University of Chicago (Booth) | $168,000 | 18.3% | $142,000 | $175 |
6. London Business School/Columbia | $166,911 | 15.8% | $144,156 | $250 |
7. Duke University Global EMBA (Fuqua) | $166,000 | 13.2% | $146,600 | $225 |
8. Cornell University (Johnson) | $161,360 | 15.5% | $138,800 | $150 |
9. UC-Berkeley (Haas) | $159,900 | 6.6% | $150,000** | $200 |
10. Trium (NYU/LSE/HEC-Paris) | $159,500 | 13.9% | $140,000 | $180 |
11. Yale School of Management | $155,500 | NA | NA | $225 |
12. Hong Kong UST/Northwestern | $155,000 | 24.5% | $124,500 | $200 |
13. London/HKU/Columbia | $154,140 | 20.6% | $127,920 | $250 |
14. MIT (Sloan) | $149,000 | NA | NA | NA |
15. Georgetown/ESADE | $148,625 | NA | NA | $175 |
16. University of Michigan (Ross) | $146,000 | 12.3% | $130,000 | NA |
17. UCLA (Anderson) | $138,758 | 28.2% | $108,240 | $200 |
18. INSEAD (Europe section) | $136,000 | 11.1% | $122,400 | $270 |
19. University of Virginia (Darden) | $129,900 | NA | NA | $250 |
20. IESE Business School | $128,464 | NA | NA | NA |
21. Georgetown University (McDonough) | $126,000 | 14.5% | $110,000 | $175 |
22. University of Southern Cal (Marshall) | $123,000 | 10.8% | $111,000 | $150 |
23. Cornell/Queen’s University | $121,530 | 17.2% | $103,680 | $150 |
23. Rutger’s University | $90,000 | —– | $90,000 | $73 |
24. Pepperdine University (Graziadio) | $118,775 | 12.4% | $105,650 | $100 |
25. IMD | $117,000 | -11.7% | $132,500 | $210 |
26. University of Maryland (Smith) | $114,500 | NA | NA | NA |
27. Southern Methodist Univ. (Cox) | $113,800 | NA | NA | None |
28. Washington University (Olin) | $112,500 | NA | NA | NA |
29. Emory University (Goizueta) | $110,000 | NA | NA | NA |
30. UCLA/National University of Singapore | $107,828 | NA | NA | NA |
31. Northwestern (Kellogg)/York (Schulich) | $107,102 | NA | NA | NA |
32. UC-Irvine (Merage) | $106,708 | NA | NA | $150 |
33. University of Toronto (Rotman) | $106,000 | NA | NA | $280 |
34. UNC Global OneMBA (Kenan-Flagler) | $105,520 | NA | NA | $145 |
35. University of Minnesota (Carlson) | $105,000 | NA | NA | NA |
36. Northwestern (Kellogg)/WHU | $101,404 | NA | NA | $270 |
37. Notre Dame (Mendoza) | $101,000 | NA | NA | $100 |
38. London Business School-Dubai stream | $100,000 | NA | NA | $273 |
39. Tsinghua/INSEAD | $100,000 | NA | NA | $250 |
Source: Business school websites & Poets&Quants data
Notes: When there are different tuition rates for residents and non-residents, we have used the non-resident numbers.
* Wharton tuition stated was for the school’s San Francisco program; the Philadelphia program cost $162,300 in 2011
** Tuition three years ago was for Berkeley’s EMBA partnership program with Columbia Business School which has since been shut down
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