Cox School of Business
United States · Southern Methodist University
#46
Business Schools 2026 · 90% range 35–73 of 107 · score 50.3
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How it scores
Careers51
Alumni outcomes8
Selectivity78
Research27
Percentiles among 107 business schools.
The numbers
- Median base salary
- $122,500 (2025) src
- Employed within 3 months
- 82% (2025) src
- Average GMAT
- 710 (classic GMAT; 90th percentile) (2025) (secondary source) src
- Full-time MBA class size
- 71 (2025) src
- Research: UT Dallas score (24 journals)
- 25.7 (2021-2025) src
Salary, employment, GMAT and class figures come from the school’s own published MBA reports (or, where marked, its figures as reproduced by Bloomberg Businessweek or Poets&Quants); each links to its source. Schools not on a published alumni list are estimated below the list’s cutoff.