Harvard Business School Admissions 2025: Requirements, Deadlines, and Acceptance Rate

Harvard Business School PhD Admissions

Harvard Business School offers doctoral programs in the following areas

1. Accounting & Management
2. Business Economics (Includes Finance)
3. Health Policy (Management)
4. Marketing
5. Organizational Behavior
6. Strategy
7. Technology & Operations Management

Harvard Business School admissions requirements for these programs are as follows:

Application Portal: Online (will open on September 2025 for Fall 2026)

Application Fee: 105 USD

• Bachelor’s degree
• Transcripts for all college/university degrees and courses
• Current GRE or GMAT scores
• TOEFL iBT 100 or IELTS 7.5
• 3 letters of recommendation (at least one from an academic source)
• Writing sample (optional, but recommended)

Note: These are minimum admission requirements for Harvard Business School PhD admission, and meeting them does not guarantee admission. Explore the following class profile below to get a clear idea of what is required to get into Harvard Business Schools’s PhD programs.

Harvard Business School PhD Class Profile

Explore Harvard Business School’s PhD class profile of 2024.

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Harvard Business School remains one of the most competitive institutions globally, with an MBA acceptance rate of around 14% and a PhD acceptance rate of 4%. For the MBA Class of 2026, 930 students were enrolled out of 9,856 applicants, including 45% women and 35% international students. PhD enrollment stood at 120 from 852 applicants, with 53% women and 36% international representation.