About MBA Worth
Radif Partners reads, for every business school on this site, three documents the school publishes itself: the fees page, the student budget and the employment report of the latest graduating class. From them it takes the tuition, the living budget, the salary graduates reported and the share of the class hired in each industry and region, each with its link and the date it was read. The calculators turn these figures into a total cost that includes the salary given up, a payback period and a ten-year net present value, and rank the schools for a goal (consulting, investment banking, tech, a region) with a formula published on the method page.
Why this site exists
Search "best MBA for consulting" or "is an MBA worth it" and the first page is made of lists written by admissions coaches and test-prep companies, some dated 2023, and of rankings that give a rank without a price. The one serious return calculator, Bloomberg's, covers American programs only. This site does better than the first Google result because it calculates, for each school, including those outside the United States, the share of the class hired in the industry or region you aim for, the salary the school reports for it and the time needed to repay the full cost (fees, living, the salary you give up), from the schools' own employment reports, dated and sourced, and it re-sorts the ranking on your own salary.
Who publishes it
The site is published by Radif Partners, a company that builds calculators on public documents. It is not a business school, a coach, a lender or a ranking body and has no commercial tie with any of them. There is no account, no lead form and nothing you type leaves your browser. There is no advertising on the site today.
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What we read
75 schools are in the data today. For each we read the fees page, the student budget and the latest employment report, and keep for every figure its link, its class and the day it was read. 53 of them publish a graduate salary in a document we could open; 42 also publish a living budget (or, in the United Kingdom, fall under the visa minimum), which is what our return model needs to rank a school. The others keep their page with what they do publish, and the page says what is missing. Exchange rates are the European Central Bank's; occupational wages in the consulting and finance pages are those of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
What we do not use
Rankings by the Financial Times, QS, US News or Bloomberg are quoted once on a school page, as a fact with a link, and never feed a table or a sort. Salary websites built on anonymous posts, coaching blogs and forum threads are not sources. When a school keeps its report behind a sign-up form, we do not fill the gap with a figure found elsewhere.
How it is checked
A script turns each school file into the data the pages read and refuses a file it cannot interpret; the return model and the ranking are tested on hand-computed cases before every release. The method page gives every formula and assumption, and the editorial policy explains corrections.
Contact
A figure to fix, a new employment report, a school to add: contact@mbaworth.com or the contact page.