Best U.S. business schools in 2015, by ROI | Statista

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This graph shows the best business schools in the United States in 2015, by return on investment 5 years after graduation. Stanford Graduate School of Business in California ranked first with a return on investment of 89,100 U.S. dollars after five years.

Ranking of the best business schools in the United States in 2015, showing return on investment*

Characteristic	Total 5-year MBA gain in U.S. dollars
Stanford - Palo Alto, CA	89,100
Harvard - Boston, MA	83,500
Northwestern (Kellogg) - Evanston, IL	72,700
Columbia - New York, NY	71,100
Dartmouth (Tuck) - Hanover, NH	68,400
Chicago (Booth) - Chicago, IL	65,000
Pennsylvania (Wharton) - Philadelphia, PA	64,900
UC Berkeley (Haas) - Berkeley, CA	64,200
MIT (Sloan) - Cambridge, MA	63,800
Cornell (Johnson) - Ithaca, NY	63,500
Yale - New Haven, CT	61,000
Duke (Fuqua) - Durham, NC	60,600
UNC (Kenan-Flagler) - Chapel Hill, NC	59,900
Texas-Austin (McCombs) - Austin, TX	59,300
Michigan (Ross) - Ann Arbor, MI	58,900
Virginia (Darden) - Charlottesville, VA	56,600
UCLA (Anderson) - Los Angeles, CA	56,500
NYU (Stern) - New York, NY	55,900
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) - Pittsburgh, PA	55,400
Indiana (Kelley) - Bloomington, IN	53,800

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* Class of 2010, 5-year total compensation after graduation, minus the sum of tuition, fees and forgone compensation.

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