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Yale School of Management: An Overview

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Updated July 22, 2025

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Yale School of Management: Yale University's graduate business school. — Located in New Haven, Connecticut, the school was founded in 1976.
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Definition

Yale School of Management offers master’s and doctoral degrees as the business school at Yale University.

What Is Yale School of Management?

Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) offers both MBA- and Ph.D.-level programs and is known for, among other things, its focus on finance and ethics. The school, which is Yale University’s graduate business school, introduced a new kind of integrated curriculum that combines a brief period of foreign study with organizational and employee analysis.

Key Takeaways

Yale School of Management (Yale SOM) is Yale University’s business school, located in New Haven, Connecticut.
The stated mission of Yale School of Management is to educate leaders for business and society.
Yale SOM offers full-time and executive MBA degrees, one-year master’s degree in systemic risk, global business and society, asset management, and advanced management. It also offers Ph.D.-level study in management fields.
For the 2025–2026 academic year, the total tuition and fees are $88,300. (Tuition at Yale School of Management is $87,800. There is an additional program fee of $500.)
Yale School of Management is one of the smaller business schools in the United States, with just over 100 faculty and roughly 350 slots in its MBA program.

Yale School of Management Mission

Yale School of Management is located in New Haven, Connecticut. The first class to attend the school arrived in 1976, after receiving a donation to establish the program in 1971. The school’s mission is shaped by three main objectives:

Be the business school that is most integrated with its home university
Be the most distinctively global U.S. business school
Be recognized as the best source of elevated leaders for all sectors and regions

Yale School of Management Programs

Yale School of Management offers several different programs for graduate studies. In addition to the standard two-year master of business administration (MBA), the school offers an executive MBA program for working students; a master of advanced management for graduates of business schools who are members of the Global Network for Advanced Management; a master’s degree in asset management; a master’s degree for systemic risk; a master’s degree for global business and society; a Ph.D. program; and executive education programs.

The doctoral program at Yale School of Management is a full-time, in-residence program intended for students who plan scholarly careers involving research and teaching in management.

Yale School of Management Admission Standards

Yale School of Management is one of the smaller business schools in America, with just over 100 faculty and roughly 350 slots in its MBA program. Admission is competitive; around 27% of applicants are accepted for its MBA class for the 2026 incoming class, a figure that varies somewhat year to year.

Fast Fact

Notable Yale School of Management alumni include Jane Mendillo, D. Ellen Shuman, and Sandra Urie.

Yale School of Management Tuition and Fees

For the 2025–2026 academic year, the total tuition and fees are $88,300. (Tuition at Yale School of Management is $87,800; there is an additional program fee of $500.) Other expenses are budgeted based on a single student assuming a modest lifestyle and shared housing:

Room, board, and personal expenses: $30,774
Textbooks and photocopies: $1,440
Health insurance: $3,422
Total estimated living expenses: $35,636
Total Single Student Budget: $123,936

Tuition at Yale School of Management is slightly higher than at other highly ranked business schools. The annual MBA tuition at Harvard Business School is $78,700 (excluding fees and living expenses); at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, the annual MBA tuition is $87,354 (also excluding fees and living expenses).

Connection to Yale University

Yale School of Management strives to be the graduate business school most connected to its home university. The two schools offer 11 joint degree programs:

Asset Management
Law
Environment
Global Affairs
Public Health
Medicine
Engineering and Applied Science
Architecture
Drama
Divinity
MBA/Ph.D.

Nearly 10% of Yale School of Management students pursue joint degrees. Students are also required to fulfill a global studies requirement to graduate. This requirement can be filled by taking an international experience course, a global network course, a small network online course, one of two global social entrepreneurship courses, or an international exchange with a partner school.

What GPA Is Required to Get Into Yale School of Management?

The median undergraduate grade-point average for Yale School of Management’s Class of 2026 is 3.68 (based on a 4.0 grading scale, where GPA appears on the transcript).

What Is the Yale School of Management’s Ranking?

According to U.S. News and World Report’s 2025 list of Best Business Schools, Yale School of Management is ranked 10th in the U.S.

The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is the top-ranked business school in the U.S., followed by the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Stanford University’s Graduate Business School.

Does Yale Have an Online MBA Program?

While Yale University has different online learning programs for students, there is no online-only MBA degree. Yale School of Management Executive Education’s collection of online executive programs ranges from courses on Corporate Sustainability Management to Decision Making and Digital Marketing.

Who Is the Dean of Yale School of Management?

Kerwin Charles has been the Indra K. Nooyi Dean of Yale School of Management since July 1, 2019.

The Bottom Line

Yale University’s Yale School of Management offers an MBA degree, in both full-time and executive formats, as well as one-year master’s degree programs in systemic risk, global business and society, asset management, and advanced management. The school also offers advanced Ph.D.-level study in management fields.

The school is located in New Haven, Connecticut; the program was established in 1971, and the first class to attend the school arrived in 1976. For the 2025–2026 academic year, the total tuition and fees are $88,300. (Tuition at Yale School of Management is $87,800. There is an additional program fee of $500.) Kerwin K. Charles is the Indra K. Nooyi Dean of the Yale School of Management and the Frederick W. Beinecke Professor of Economics, Policy, and Management.

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