Looking for typical amount of time and more important money is costs
for typical person to get MBA degree at three or more  of the leading
US business schools (e.g. Wharton, Stanford, etc).

Hello Chazb,


From BusinessWeek:

Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management
Length of program 22 months 
Estimated TOTAL (not annual) cost of full-time MBA program (U.S.
dollars):  $77,688 (2005)
Expected monthly rent:   $1,000
Recommended annual budget (Resident):  $63,154
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/full_time_profiles/kellogg.htm

The University of Chicago
Graduate School of Business 
Length of program 21 months 
Estimated TOTAL (not annual) cost of full-time MBA program (U.S.
dollars):  $65,912(2002)
Expected monthly rent:   $1,300
Recommended annual budget (Resident):  $67,406
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/full_time_profiles/chicago.htm


The University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School
Length of program 21 months
Estimated TOTAL (not annual) cost of full-time MBA program (U.S.
dollars): $66,171 (2005)
Expected monthly rent $1,100 
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/full_time_profiles/wharton.htm


Stanford University
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Length of program 22 months
Estimated TOTAL (not annual) cost of full-time MBA program (U.S.
dollars): $82,680(2005)
Expected monthly rent:   NA
Recommended annual budget (Resident):  $69,381
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/full_time_profiles/stanford.htm


Harvard University
Harvard Business School 
Length of program 22 months	
Estimated TOTAL (not annual) cost of full-time MBA program (U.S.
dollars): $78,200 (2004)
Expected monthly rent $1,252 
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/full_time_profiles/harvard.htm


Source: Business Week
U.S. Top 30 MBA
http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/04/index.html#top30


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Cost of doing MBA? 

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $15000-20000
Stetson University, The University of Tampa, University of
Mississippi, North Carolina State University, Louisiana State
University, Georgia Tech (DuPree), SUNY Buffalo, Brigham Young
University (Marriott),

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $20000-30000 
University of California-Irvine, Minnesota (Carlson), UC Berkeley,
Indiana, Texas-Austin, Carnegie Mellon

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $30000-40000
The Pennsylvania State University, UC Davis, Michigan State (Broad),
Northwestern (Kellogg), University of Chicago, Harvard Business
School, MIT (Sloan)

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA $40000-50000
Ohio State (Fisher), Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Wake Forest
(Babcock), Arizona State, UCLA (Anderson)

Approximate Cost (Total) for MBA >$50000 
Boston University, Virginia (Darden), Duke (Fuqua), Yale, Stanford
University, New York University, Columbia Search terms used:

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Below are the recommended annual budgets for some of the top business
schools in the
School                  Non-Resident  Resident
Northwestern (Kellogg   $60,680	   $60,680
Dartmouth (Tuck         $60,760    $60,760
NYU (Stern)             $61,170	   $61,170
MIT (Sloan)             $63,890	   $63,890
Harvard                 $64,100	   $64,100
Pennsylvania (Wharton)  $64,422	   $64,422
Columbia                $64,510	   $64,510
Stanford                $64,569	   $64,569
Chicago                 $64,831	   $64,831
http://www.mbamap.com/mba-select/mba-cost.htm


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?In the United States, the Katz Business School at the University of
Pittsburgh runs an EMBA program for $45,000. In Chicago, 2005-06
tuition and fees for the executive MBA offered by Northwestern
University's Kellogg School of Management -- regarded as among the
best in the United States-- run to $54,000 a year for two years, for a
total of $108,000.?

(?)

?In comparison, a full-time two-year MBA from Wharton -- usually
ranked among the top U.S. business courses -- costs about $80,000.
Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and University of Chicago's Graduate
School of Business are about the same.?
CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/08/15/execed.costs/index.html



Search terms:
Costs of an MBA
Wharton 

I hope the information provided is helpful!

Best regards,
Bobbie7