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The 25 business schools that offer the best value

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Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business is the the best value b-school.  Wikimedia Commons

If you're going to fork over thousands of dollars for business school, it better be worth your time and money.

Online grad school guide GraduatePrograms.com surveyed over 13,000 current and former business school students about their programs to find places where students felt they earned the best education for the price — schools where students were satisfied with their program, and would choose it again.

Students ranked their schools in several categories — including value, financial aid, and quality of education — on a scale from 1 to 10, with 10 being a perfect score. The scores for each school were averaged together by category, then ranked accordingly.

Students say these business schools offer the best value:

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Tanza Loudenback is a personal finance expert and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP). She was the founding reporter of Personal Finance Insider, covering topics including taxes, retirement planning, banking, real estate and mortgages, and budgeting. Her work has been featured in WSJ Buy Side, Fortune Recommends, Korn Ferry, TheStreet, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management, and Fidelity. ExperienceTanza was the first reporter on the Personal Finance Insider team. In addition to helping build the vertical from the ground up, she helmed a biweekly advice column answering readers’ personal finance questions and launched a personal finance newsletter. She also published two e-books under the Personal Finance Insider brand.She was the editorial lead on Master Your Money series, a two-year-long Business Insider series providing financial advice to millennials. She managed Master Your Money bootcamp events over the course of the series. While at BI, she also expanded tax coverage to include a guide to the best tax software and commissioned a panel of experts to review all articles. Tanza obtained her CFP license in 2020. She aims to simplify personal finance concepts for readers so that they can make smart decisions with their money. ExpertiseTanza’s areas of personal finance expertise include:
  • Real estate/mortgages
  • Taxes
  • Retirement planning
  • Small business finances
  • Banking
  • Budgeting
Education Tanza is a graduate of Elon University with a degree in print and online journalism, with a minor in Italian studies.
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