Fast Facts: Graduate

As of April 2025

One of the fastest-rising full-time MBA programs

Total graduate population: 1,166 (including non-degree students)
Average class size: 26
Number of full-time faculty: 123
Percent with terminal degrees: 89%
Student-faculty ratio: 14:1

U.S. News and World Report Graduate Rankings 2025:

Overall Ranking Full-time MBA
#58 (Tie)

Five Top-20 M.B.A. Specialty Areas

  • Accounting: 10
  • Entrepreneurship 13 (Tie)
  • Finance: 12
  • International: 10 (Tie)
  • Marketing: 14 (Tie)

  • Part-time MBA: 88 (Tie)
  • Executive MBA: 13

Businessweek Rankings:

  • Full-time M.B.A.: 54

Poets & Quants Graduate Rankings:

  • Full-time M.B.A.: 60
  • EMBA: 10

Financial Times Global Rankings:

  • Corporate social responsibility: 29
  • EMBA: 23 in the U.S.
  • EMBA: 81 Globally
  • Full-time M.B.A.: 78 Globally

Financial Times Global Masters in Finance - Pre-Experience Rankings:

  • M.S. in Global Finance: 
    • 52 worldwide
    • 9 in North America

Forbes M.B.A. Rankings:

  • Full-time M.B.A.: 58
Fortune Recommends: 
  • Full-time M.B.A. Ranking: 51 

The Economist Rankings (Last Official Ranking as This Ranking was Discontinued):

  • EMBA: 33
  • WhichMBA EMBA Gender Balance: 1

QuantNet Best Financial Engineering Programs:

  • M.S. in Quantitative Finance: 10 North America

QS Business Schools Rankings:

  • M.B.A.: 57 nationwide
  • M.S. in Business Analytics: 61-70 worldwide

CEO Magazine Rankings:

  • M.B.A.: Tier 1, North America
  • EMBA: Tier 1, Global; 43 worldwide

 

M.B.A. program specific facts:
Percentage of International students: 60%
Percentage of Male / Female: 61% / 39%
Mean GMAT: 659
Average age: 28
Average years of work experience: 5.3

Full-Time, Professional, Executive - M.B.A. program specific facts:
Percentage of International students: 28%
Percentage of Male / Female: 57% / 43%

Students in all MS programs are also offered the Gabelli Leadership™ Certification.

M.S. program specific facts:
Percentage of International students: 80%
Percentage of Male / Female:  47% / 53%
Mean GMAT: 620-690
Average age: 24
Average years of work experience: 1.0

 

Academic competitions

Association for Corporate Growth (ACG) Cup

Offers real-world experience in mergers and acquisitions, investment banking, financial advisory, and private equity.

  • No. 1, New York Regional (2019)  
  • No. 1, New York Regional (2017)
  • No. 1, New York Regional (2016)
  • No. 2, New York regional (2014)
  • No. 1, New York regional (2013)
  • No. 1, New York regional (2012)

Institutional Investor All-America Student Analyst Competition

Attracts more than 2,000 students from 75 to 80 universities. Competitors invest a mock portfolio for three months, trading on day-end prices and balancing long and short strategies.

  • No. 1 school overall (2014), placing the most students—nine—into the Top 100 ranking tables
  • 1st and 3rd place in the individual competition (2014) with four students in the national Top 20
  • 5th place in the individual competition (2015) with 14 students in the national Top 100

University Trading Challenge

  • No. 1 overall (2016, 2015, 2014)
  • Best Team Trading Award (2015)
  • Best Presentation Award (2015)

CFA Institute Research Challenge

Promotes best practices in research among the next generation of analysts, providing practical experience in researching and reporting on publicly traded companies.

  • No. 1, New York region (2014), and Americas finalist (Top 10) — competed in Denver
  • No. 1, New York region (2013), and Americas finalist (Top 10) — competed in London
  • Final Four, New York region (2015)

PRMIA Risk Management Competition

Simulates real-life risk-management challenges via a case-study approach. Sponsored by the Professional Risk Managers International Association, it carries a cash prize of about $10,000.

  • No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, and No. 4 teams in New York regional (2014) were from Fordham, out of 24 total entrants