Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management

42°26′45″N 76°28′59″W / 42.44583°N 76.48306°W / 42.44583; -76.48306 The Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League research university in Ithaca, New York. Established in 1946, Johnson is one of six Ivy League business schools and offers the smallest full‑time MBA cohort of all Ivy League MBA programs, fostering an intimate and collaborative academic environment while also maintaining the third lowest acceptance rate. The Cornell Master of Business Administration (MBA) also offers a one-year Johnson Cornell Tech MBA at Cornell Tech in New York City, as well as the innovative Cornell 1+1 MBA program, which combines one year in Ithaca with one year at Cornell Tech. In 1984, Samuel Curtis Johnson, Jr. and his family donated $20 million to the school, which was renamed the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management in honor of Johnson’s grandfather, Samuel Curtis Johnson, Sr., the founder of S.C. Johnson. The endowment gift was the largest gift to any business school in the world.

Graduates of the Cornell University MBA – Johnson Graduate School of Management earn some of the highest salaries of MBA graduates in the United States. Graduates of the Cornell MBA earned an average first-year salary of $175,000 in addition to a signing bonus of $38,826, with 77.9% reporting a sign-on bonus, ranking as the second-highest total compensation of all business schools in the United States.

Johnson is known for its elite consulting placements, strong finance and investment banking outcomes, One-Year Tech MBA in New York City, immersion learning, and tight-knit cohorts. With an acceptance rate of 28.1%, the Cornell University MBA – Johnson Graduate School of Management is the seventh most selective business school in the United States, and one of the most selective business schools in the world.

The Johnson School is housed in Sage Hall and supports more than 80 full-time faculty members. There are 600 students in the full-time, two-year Master of Business Administration (MBA) program in Ithaca, and around 40 Ph.D. students, all advised by Johnson faculty. The Johnson School is known for its rural setting and small class size — with close proximity to New York City. As such, both factors, combined with Johnson's commitment to the two-year MBA program in Ithaca and one-year MBA at Cornell Tech, contribute to its high giving rate of 1 in 4 among the 15,000 global Cornell MBA alumni, the third highest alumni giving rate of all Ivy League business schools.