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#11014

The High Price of Admission
This year both the costs and benefits of attending B-school surged. For our top 30 schools, tuition and fees alone were up 15% on average, and the pricetag for a Wharton MBA now approaches $90,000, up nearly $20,000 since 2004. Good thing salaries for grads increased, too. New 2006 MBAs could expect first-year paychecks of about $95,000 on average, an increase of 47% from their pre-MBA days and a huge increase over the 29% MBA pay premium that 2004 grads received. But in narrow economic terms, it may not pay to attend one of the top-ranked schools; a midtier school is a better bet. That's because the likes of Wharton and Harvard tend to attract high earners, making it harder to get a big salary bump at graduation and recoup the investment in an MBA. How hard? For Harvard grads, the breakeven point won't come until 2020, or about 20 years shy of retirement.

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Emory	225,737	42,471	5.32
Wisconsin (Madison)	186,799	42,343	4.41
Michigan State University	161,904	40,804	3.97
Rochester	199,447	38,568	5.17
Yale	245,708	38,151	6.44
South Carolina (Darla Moore)	165,283	37,675	4.39
Notre Dame	190,241	37,652	5.05
U. of Washington	193,626	36,795	5.26
Washington U.	205,518	36,398	5.65
Carnegie Mellon	251,735	36,393	6.92
Michigan	251,437	36,371	6.91
Maryland	202,029	35,319	5.72
Brigham Young	133,234	35,068	3.80
NYU	267,153	33,286	8.03
Duke	258,689	32,991	7.84
Georgetown	236,903	32,058	7.39
USC	240,557	32,052	7.51
Cornell	253,543	31,940	7.94
Rice U.	230,115	31,869	7.22
Indiana	211,064	31,797	6.64
Ohio State U.	195,848	31,507	6.22
UNC	239,337	31,056	7.71
UC Irvine	215,201	30,477	7.06
Boston University	214,904	29,195	7.36
Virginia	262,517	29,098	9.02
Chicago	289,473	28,691	10.09
Dartmouth	289,633	28,404	10.20
Northwestern	289,054	27,182	10.63
Vanderbilt	240,596	27,089	8.88
UCLA	258,551	26,794	9.65
Columbia	315,780	26,610	11.87
Wharton	328,748	25,775	12.75
Minnesota (Carlson)	236,680	25,321	9.35
Texas-Austin	241,956	25,193	9.60
Berkeley	291,805	24,239	12.04
Harvard	345,401	23,921	14.44
Boston College	215,587	23,804	9.06
Babson	236,821	23,318	10.16
Stanford	328,062	22,351	14.68
Buffalo	109,153	21,839	5.00
MIT	324,305	21,499	15.08
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