What a Harvard MBA costs

Von am 15. August 2017

Estimating the actual cost of a Harvard Business School MBA is not easy. Incoming MBA students in the fall of 2017 can expect to pay a total of $144,000 in tuition over the two years. But that is just the beginning. There’s another $5,000 in course fees and materials, $6,620 in health insurance, an estimated $26,388 for your room and utilities on campus, and finally another $29,668 for food, drinks and other incidentals. So for a single student, the total costs for the Harvard MBA come to $213,600.

But if you get the average scholarship award of $37,000 a year—half of all HBS students are on scholarship—you could reduce that number to just a shade under $140,000. Harvard parcels out more scholarship dough–$34 million for MBA students last year–than any other business school but does so only based on need–not merit. Continue reading

Foto Bärbel Schwertfeger, MBA Journal

Über Bärbel Schwertfeger

Bärbel Schwertfeger ist Diplom-Psychologin und seit 1985 als freie Journalistin im Bereich Management, Weiterbildung und Personalentwicklung tätig.