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Top One Year MBA Programs In The USA

More US business schools are offering shorter, more affordable one year MBA programs. Here's some of the best on offer

Tue Jul 2 2019

BusinessBecause
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

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


USC Marshall Business School, California

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Tuition Cost: $112,000 Average GMAT...

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Western Washington University College of Business and Economics

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


Midwest


Carl H. Lindner College of Business, Ohio 

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


Kellogg School of Management, Illinois

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


Mendoza College of Business, Indiana

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


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

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


Northeast


Babson College, Massachussettes 

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


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

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


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

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


University of Pittsburgh Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

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


Southwest


SMU Edwin L. Cox School of Business, Dallas

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


TCU Neeley School of Business, Fort Worth

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


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Emory University Goizueta Business School, Georgia

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


Florida International University Chapman Graduate School of Business, Miami

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


Hough Graduate School of Business, Florida

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


Mississippi College, Mississippi

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


University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics

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


University of Miami Business School

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


University of South Carolina Darla Moore

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


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