Surprisingly the most expensive 2 year MBA is not being sold by Harvard or Wharton – instead it is MIT Sloan Business School that has the most expensive MBA priced at over $120,000. Now this is only the tuition fee; it does not include any living or maintenance costs. MIT being in Boston is an expensive place to live in. You can expect to pay anywhere between $35,000 and $45,000 for two years for your living expenses.
Moreover these costs do not include the cost of “global study tours” or “global immersion program”. These can cost from $5000 to $15,000 for two years. So on average expect to pay between $180,000 $200,000 at a top business school for a 2 year MBA. For Pakistani standards (in fact for any standards) this is a significant amount of money to invest on your MBA degree – however in Pakistan most of the top corporate companies send there middle management to do their MBA at these programs.
| Business School | Cost of the MBA Program |
| Harvard University | $112,350 |
| Stanford University GSB | $119,100 |
| University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | $119,472 |
| University of Chicago (Booth) | $117,520 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) | $122,304 |
| Northwestern University (Kellogg) | $118,170 |
| University of California-Berkeley (Haas) | $107,918 |
| Columbia University | $121,440 |
| Dartmouth College (Tuck) | $117,870 |
| New York University (Stern) | $114,936 |
| University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Ross) | $114,400 |
| University of Verginia (Darden) | $105,440 |
| Yale University | $114,400 |
| Duke University (Fuqua) | $110,600 |
| University of Texas – Austin (McCombs) | $97,664 |
| University of California – (Anderson) | $110,018 |
| Cornell University (Johnson) | $111,896 |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | $113,536 |
| University of North Carolina (Kenan – Flagler) | $101,884 |
| Emory University – Goizueta | $92,000 |