Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management
United States · Vanderbilt University
#30
Business Schools 2026 · 90% range 24–34 of 107 · score 68.1
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How it scores
Careers82
Alumni outcomes64
Selectivity80
Research12
Percentiles among 107 business schools.
The numbers
- Median base salary
- $148,000 (mean) (2025) src
- Employed within 3 months
- 86% (2025) src
- Average GMAT
- 660 (GMAT Focus; 90th percentile) (2025) src
- Full-time MBA class size
- 160 (2025) src
- Research: UT Dallas score (24 journals)
- 13.2 (2021-2025) src
- MBA alumni founders of VC-backed companies (PitchBook)
- 104 (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.