Paul Merage School of Business
United States · University of California, Irvine
#71
Business Schools 2026 · 90% range 41–93 of 107 · score 42.9
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How it scores
Careers26
Alumni outcomes39
Selectivity66
Research41
Percentiles among 107 business schools.
The numbers
- Median base salary
- $125,000 (2024) src
- Employed within 3 months
- 68% (2024) src
- Average GMAT
- 675 (edition not stated, scored as the average of both; 85th percentile) (2025) src
- Full-time MBA class size
- 36 (2025) src
- Research: UT Dallas score (24 journals)
- 34.0 (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.