MIT Sloan School of Management
United States · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
#6
Business Schools 2026 · 90% range 5–6 of 107 · score 94.5
Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
How it scores
Careers93
Alumni outcomes97
Selectivity88
Research93
Percentiles among 107 business schools.
The numbers
- Median base salary
- $175,000 (2025) src
- Employed within 3 months
- 87% (2025) src
- Average GMAT
- 675 (GMAT Focus; 94th percentile) (2026) src
- Full-time MBA class size
- 450 (2026) src
- Research: UT Dallas score (24 journals)
- 117.6 (2021-2025) src
- MBA alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)
- 934 (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.