Top One Year MBA Programs In The USA

One-year MBA programs are almost the standard at business schools in Europe and Asia. INSEAD’s 10-month MBA has been ranked in the top-five in the world by the Financial Times for five consecutive years.

But the traditional, two-year, full-time MBA is still the flagship program for most business schools in the United States.

The two-year MBA gives students more time to explore their career options. It’s usually made up of a less experienced class. And it typically incorporates an MBA internship—taken in the summer between first and second year—through which a high proportion of US-based MBA students land their post-MBA jobs.

However, the market is changing. MBA students demand more flexibility and taking two years out of work to go to business school has become increasingly onerous.

According to data from the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), 47% of candidates considered one-year MBAs in 2018, compared to 45% who considered two-year MBAs—historically the dominant program. International applications to US business schools continue to fall.

In response to these shifts in demand, more US business schools now offer one-year MBA programs to complement two-year MBAs.

In the US, one-year MBAs tend to target more experienced students and are often focused on a particular specialty or industry, like the Tech MBA at NYU Stern.

Here, we round up some of the top one-year MBA programs on offer in the US, their cost, and their average GMAT scores:

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West

Pepperdine Graziadio Business School, California

Tuition Cost: $74,625  Average GMAT Score: 626

USC Marshall Business School, California

Tuition Cost: $112,000 Average GMAT Score: 630

Western Washington University College of Business and Economics

Tuition Cost: $18,682 Average GMAT Score: 590

Midwest

Carl H. Lindner College of Business, Ohio 

Tuition Costs: $28,796 Average GMAT Score: 655

Kellogg School of Management, Illinois 

Tuition Cost: $95,156 Average GMAT Score: 732

Mendoza College of Business, Indiana

Tuition Cost: $75,768 Average GMAT Score: 683

Saint Louis University Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business, Missouri

Tuition Cost: $47,000 Average GMAT Score: 590

Northeast

Babson College, Massachussettes 

Tuition Costs: $82,496 Average GMAT Score: 599

Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, New York

Tuition Cost: $107,530 Average GMAT Score: 690

Hult International Business School, Boston (also located in San Francisco and New York)

Tuition Cost: $74,000 Average GMAT Score: 610 

University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Tuition Cost: $66,792 Average GMAT Score: 608

Southwest

SMU Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Dallas

Tuition Cost: $78,430 Average GMAT Score: 636

TCU Neeley School of Business, Fort Worth

Tuition Cost: $69,480 Average GMAT Score: 640

Southeast

Emory University Goizueta Business School, Georgia

Tuition Costs: $95,853 Average GMAT Score: 655

Florida International University Chapman Graduate School of Business, Miami

Tuition Costs: $47,000 Average GMAT Score: 540 

Hough Graduate School of Business, Florida

Tuition Cost: $41,173 Average GMAT Score: 600 

Mississippi College, Mississippi

Tuition Cost: $17,640  Average GMAT Score: 406

University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics

Tuition Cost: $32,906 / $38,426 (resident/non-resident) Average GMAT Score: 591

University of Miami Business School

Tuition Cost: $88,377 Average GMAT Score: 640

University of South Carolina Darla Moore

Tuition Cost: $35,702 / 40,790 (resident/non-resident) Average GMAT Score: 670

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