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It's not unusual for MBA candidates to pay more than $50,000 for a two-year program, but out-of-state students at some public schools may pay that price or more for just one school year.
For the 2013-2014 school year at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, for example, out-of-state students paid $57,394. Ross had the highest tuition and fees for out-of-state students attending public universities, according to data submitted to U.S. News by 51 ranked public institutions.
The Haas School of Business at University of California--Berkeley once charged out-of-state students the most but it charged $53,959 in 2013-2014, putting it in the middle of the pack among the 10 schools where non-locals pay the most.
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The difference in tuition and fees for in-state and out-of-state MBAs at Haas and Ross was a few thousand dollars, but at some schools that difference was more than $10,000.
At the University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler School of Business, students from outside of North Carolina paid $54,385, which is $19,432 more than in-state students. There was an almost $16,000 price difference at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas--Austin, with students from outside of Texas paying $48,832.
Among all public schools offering MBA programs, out-of-state students paid the least at the Kelce College of Business at Pittsburg State University in Kansas: $17,071.
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Below is a list of the 10 MBA programs where out-of-state students paid the most in tuition and fees during the 2013-2014 school year. Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report.
School (name) | Out-of-state tuition and fees | U.S. News b-school rank |
|---|---|---|
University of Michigan--Ann Arbor (Ross) | $57,394 | 11 |
University of Virginia (Darden) | $55,900 | 11 |
University of California--Los Angeles (Anderson) | $55,009 | 16 |
University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) | $54,385 | 19 |
University of California--Berkeley (Haas) | $53,959 | 7 |
University of California--Riverside (Anderson) | $50,490 | RNP* |
University of Minnesota--Twin Cities (Carlson) | $49,256 | 33 |
University of Texas--Austin (McCombs) | $48,832 | 15 |
University of California--Davis | $48,694 | 41 |
University of California--San Diego (Rady) | $47,807 | 60 |
*RNP denotes an institution that is ranked in the bottom one-fourth of its ranking category. U.S. News calculates a rank for the school but has decided not to publish it.
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U.S. News surveyed 453 schools for our 2013 survey of business programs. Schools self-reported myriad data regarding their academic programs and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News' data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind. While U.S. News uses much of this survey data to rank schools for our annual Best Business Schools rankings, the data can also be useful when examined on a smaller scale. U.S. News will now produce lists of data, separate from the overall rankings, meant to provide students and parents a means to find which schools excel, or have room to grow, in specific areas that are important to them. While the data come from the schools themselves, these lists are not related to, and have no influence over, U.S. News' rankings of Best Colleges or Best Graduate Schools. The tuition and fees data above are correct as of Oct. 21, 2014.
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