As we open the 2026–2027 Duke MBA application, we are introducing several updates designed to support applicants, provide greater clarity, and create additional opportunities to engage with Fuqua.

In designing the 2025-2026 Daytime MBA application, the primary focus was refining the admissions process in a way that helps us get to know applicants more authentically and holistically.

Changes to Fuqua's interview policy and Consortium membership headline the updates to the Daytime MBA application.

In Admissions, our goal every year is to find new ways to make the MBA application process less stressful and more straightforward.

Fuqua's Admissions team breaks down what Daytime or Accelerated Daytime MBA applicants need to know about an added admissions deadline in 2023.

When our Admissions team reviews the application each year, our goal is to ensure the process is as straightforward and stress-free for applicants as possible.

Round 3 is inherently a smaller round and we know it’s also one that people are often warned away from. We want to dispel some of its associated myths and misconceptions.

For those of you that are planning to submit an application this year, here are some things that have changed and some advice on how to approach the application and the overall school research and admissions process.

The 2019–2020 application year was truly the most tumultuous in my nearly 15 years of working in MBA Admissions. Like you, we had to adjust to a lot of the challenges that COVID-19 presented.

Here in the admissions office we get a lot of questions from prospective and admitted students about financial aid and scholarships. We thought it might be helpful to lay out some of the basics for you and help you get an understanding of how things work here at Fuqua