McCombs School of Business
United States · University of Texas at Austin
#21
Business Schools 2026 · 90% range 17–29 of 107 · score 74.4
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How it scores
Careers72
Alumni outcomes83
Selectivity75
Research90
Percentiles among 107 business schools.
The numbers
- Median base salary
- $154,053 (2025) src
- Employed within 3 months
- 72% (2025) src
- Average GMAT
- 655 (GMAT Focus; 90th percentile) (2025) src
- Full-time MBA class size
- 235 (2025) src
- Research: UT Dallas score (24 journals)
- 104.4 (2021-2025) src
- MBA alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)
- 273 (2026) 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.