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4 undergrad business programs more selective than Harvard's MBA

Huntsman Hall, the main building of the Wharton School Source: Wikipedia
Huntsman Hall, the main building of the Wharton School Source: Wikipedia

Business school publication Poets & Quants has a new ranking of America’s best undergraduate business programs, and some of these institutions are more selective than Harvard’s MBA program.

Although Harvard’s MBA program has an 11% acceptance rate for the class of 2018, several schools on this list offer even slimmer odds of admission. Those schools include the following four:

Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley — 8.2%

Located near Silicon Valley and San Francisco, Haas allows its students to be at the epicenter of technology and innovation. The business program at Haas selects candidates from Berkeley students and transfer students only after they have completed a certain number of college (or college-equivalent) courses.

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Tuition and fees for Californians are substantially lower, at $13,510, than at comparable private institutions. The school continues to be a great investment with the average starting salary of $74,654.

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania — 9%

Wharton Business School is the oldest business school in America. Students there can choose from 21+ unique concentrations, ranging from retail to health care management and policy. Upon graduation, 90% of their students are employed over 42 different industries and their starting salary is $77,566.

Olin Business School, Washington University at St. Louis — 10.3%

Olin has a strong international focus, with 50% of its students participating in studying-abroad programs. The school also allows students to participate in a European study tour, with teams of two traveling the EU to interview government officials while conducting on-the-ground research. Ninety-nine percent of Olin students reported accepting a job 90 days after graduation, and the starting salary is $61,000.

Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University — 7%

The most selective program on the list, Dyson is located within Cornell’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. Students can easily double major in the life sciences, environmental sciences, agricultural sciences, or applied social sciences, which is often the key factor in differentiating them from business school candidates in other institutions. The starting salary for students at Dyson is $70,552.

Note: For universities with separate admissions processes for business schools, Poets & Quants also took into account the school’s acceptance rate to calculate the “actual odds of admission to the business school,” according to the survey methodology.

See the full ranking here.