Those impressive paychecks may be the initial draw of a top-notch business degree, but landing those first jobs after graduation should be the ultimate test.
Job-seeking graduates from schools in our 2026 ranking of the Best Undergraduate Business Programs were able to land fulltime jobs within three months at a robust rate, even as the job market tightens for entry level workers.
In fact, 90% or more of 2025 graduates who wanted a full-time job found one at 67 of the 110 business schools we ranked this year. The employment rate was 85% or higher at 79 of the ranked schools, according to data schools submitted to Poets&Quants for the ranking.
Across all programs, the average employment rate was 88.4%, up a smidge from the 88.1% reported by the Class of 2024.
Two schools, Roger Williams University (Gabelli) (ranked No. 82nd overall) and University of Richmond (Robins) (No. 17) placed every 2025 graduate who sought a job.
CLASS OF 2025 HIGHEST & LOWEST EMPLOYMENT RATES
HIGHEST |
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2026 Rank |
School |
Class of 2024 Employment |
Class of 2025 Employment |
Two-Year Average |
| 82 | Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 17 | University of Richmond (Robins) | 99.5% | 100.0% | 99.7% |
| 8 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 96.7% | 98.9% | 97.8% |
| 54 | Lipscomb University | 98.4% | 98.7% | 98.6% |
| 13 | Wake Forest University | 97.5% | 98.7% | 98.1% |
| 18 | Boston University (Questrom) | 96.7% | 98.7% | 97.7% |
| 74 | Marian University | 98.2% | 98.7% | 98.4% |
| 61 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | 98.7% | 98.6% | 98.7% |
| 39 | Miami University (Farmer) | 96.6% | 98.6% | 97.6% |
| 51 | Butler University (Lacy) | 99.1% | 98.6% | 98.8% |
| 45 | Marquette University | 98.8% | 98.6% | 98.7% |
| 49 | University of Dayton | 97.9% | 98.5% | 98.2% |
| 6 | New York University (Stern) | 95.4% | 98.0% | 96.7% |
| 22 | University of Miami (Herbert) | 99.1% | 97.9% | 98.5% |
LOWEST |
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2026 Rank |
School |
Class of 2024 Employment |
Class of 2025 Employment |
Two-Year Average |
| 86 | University of Oregon (Lundquist) | 78.4% | 74.4% | 76.4% |
| 90 | Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 98.2% | 72.5% | 85.4% |
| 57 | Texas A&M University (Mays) | 76.0% | 71.1% | 73.6% |
| 88 | Longwood University | 88.0% | 68.1% | 78.0% |
| 96 | American University (Kogod) | 55.6% | 64.4% | 60.0% |
| 94 | University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 53.2% | 63.1% | 58.1% |
| 99 | Sacred Heart University (Jack Welch) | 69.1% | 51.9% | 60.5% |
| 110 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 47.1% | 42.2% | 44.7% |
| 108 | Northern Illinois University | 46.7% | 41.0% | 43.9% |
| 107 | Stony Brook University | 46.7% | 41.0% | 43.9% |
| 104 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 66.8% | 38.6% | 52.7% |
INTERNSHIPS AT RANKED B-SCHOOLS
Securing a business-focused summer internship is an important rite of passage for most B-school students. Not only do they provide essential real-world experience and resume props, they often lead to full-time job offers for strong candidates.
That’s why both employment and internship rates make up a significant portion of our Career Outcomes category of our ranking methodology. The employment rate for job-seeking graduates three months after graduation accounts for 50% of the category score while the internship rate accounts for 20%. (We use two years worth of careers data when calculating the ranking, so Classes of 2024 and 2025 for this cycle.)
As with all metrics, some schools do better than others at helping students land those summer positions.
Nine programs reported that 100% of its Class of 2025 graduates had at least one business-specific internship during their degrees, as you can see in the table below. Eight of those schools posted 100% internship rates for the last two graduating classes.
CLASS OF 2025 HIGHEST & LOWEST INTERNSHIP RATES
HIGHEST |
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2026 Rank |
School |
Class of 2024 Internships |
Class of 2025 Internships |
2-Year Average |
| 51 | Butler University (Lacy) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 33 | Elon University (Love) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 88 | Longwood University | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 74 | Marian University | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 100 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Lally) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 71 | Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 37 | Syracuse University (Whitman) | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 72 | Towson University | 100.0% | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| 8 | University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 98.0% | 100.0% | 99.0% |
| 3 | Cornell University (Dyson SC Johnson) | 100.0% | 99.6% | 99.8% |
| 101 | University of Kansas | 99.0% | 99.0% | 99.0% |
| 54 | Lipscomb University | 94.0% | 98.7% | 96.4% |
| 18 | Boston University (Questrom) | 98.2% | 98.4% | 98.3% |
| 6 | New York University (Stern) | 96.9% | 98.4% | 97.7% |
| 27 | Binghamton University | 98.0% | 98.0% | 98.0% |
| 12 | Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 96.0% | 98.0% | 97.0% |
| 10 | Emory University (Goizueta) | 91.0% | 98.0% | 94.5% |
| 61 | University of Missouri-Columbia (Trulaske) | 98.0% | 98.0% | 98.0% |
| 13 | Wake Forest University | 97.0% | 98.0% | 97.5% |
| 11 | Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 97.0% | 98.0% | 97.5% |
LOWEST |
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2026 Rank |
School |
Class of 2024 Internships |
Class of 2025 Internships |
2-Year Average |
| 68 | University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 48.8% | 58.7% | 53.8% |
| 109 | University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | 55.0% | 56.0% | 55.5% |
| 93 | University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 49.9% | 53.5% | 51.7% |
| 98 | University of Michigan-Dearborn | 54.0% | 51.4% | 52.7% |
| 97 | Iona University (LaPenta) | 45.0% | 51.0% | 48.0% |
| 92 | University of Mary Washington | 53.0% | 50.0% | 51.5% |
| 91 | Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 50.1% | 47.2% | 48.7% |
| 108 | Northern Illinois University | 54.0% | 47.0% | 50.5% |
| 104 | San Jose State University (Lucas) | 48.6% | 46.0% | 47.3% |
| 85 | Adelphi University (Willumstad) | 53.0% | 45.0% | 49.0% |
| 102 | University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 40.0% | 42.0% | 41.0% |
| 67 | The College of New Jersey | 48.0% | 41.0% | 44.5% |
| 89 | Texas State University (McCoy) | 76.0% | 40.0% | 58.0% |
| 80 | Hult International Business School | 70.0% | 38.0% | 54.0% |
| 105 | Florida International University | 34.0% | 35.0% | 34.5% |
| 110 | Kennesaw State University (Coles) | 34.0% | 35.0% | 34.5% |
| 107 | Stony Brook University | 21.5% | 26.0% | 23.7% |
Click through the next two pages to get employment and internship information at all 104 undergraduate business schools we ranked in 2025.
- PAGE 2: Average Class of 2025 employment rates at all 110 ranked B-schools
- PAGE 3: Average Class of 2025 internship rates at all 110 ranked B-schools
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