Percentage of Women MBAs At The Top Business Schools – 1999 to 2015

Matt Symonds, May 28, 2014

The HBS Class of '65: 8 women alongside 676 men

We are still a long way from gender parity in the MBA classroom, but the incoming classes at a number of the world’s top business schools report a record percentage of women students. Leading the way are US schools such as UC Berkeley Haas, which this year counts 43% female students, followed by Stanford GSB, Harvard and Wharton. This is the sixth consecutive year that Wharton has at least 40% women in the MBA.

In Europe, which typically attracts applicants at a later stage in their career, the London Business School has achieved it’s highest percentage to date with 36%. But top schools in Spain and Switzerland are struggling to make inroads, with numbers below 30%.

Institution	Country	'15	'14	'13	'12	'11	'10	'09	'08	'07	'06	'05	'04	'03	'02	'01	'00	'99
University of California at Berkeley: Haas	US	43	29	32	29	30	28	30	31	35	32	27	24	30	29	31	36	38
Stanford Graduate School of Business	US	42	36	35	34	39	34	36	38	32	32	35	35	37	38	41	30	30
Harvard Business School	US	41	41	40	39	36	36	38	36	35	38	34	35	35	36	32	30	30
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	US	40	42	42	44	40	40	36	37	36	32	33	33	34	32	28	30	30
MIT: Sloan	US	39	34	33	38	35	38	35	30	31	30	31	26	24	27	27	27	27
Yale School of Management	US	37	39	35	36	37	34	34	34	38	34	34	29	33	26	28	31	34
University of Chicago: Booth	US	36	35	35	35	35	35	35	35	31	28	26	29	31	22	26	20	22
Columbia Business School	US	36	36	37	35	35	33	32	33	35	31	33	30	32	34	35	36	36
London Business School	UK	36	32	33	31	28	27	25	23	28	22	23	23	26	33	23	24	25
New York University: Stern	US	36	40	37	33	36	38	41	39	34	33	33	34	37	34	40	39	43
Northwestern University: Kellogg	US	35	36	35	34	31	33	34	34	31	31	29	28	31	28	32	32	32
Duke University: Fuqua	US	34	32	33	37	30	38	39	36	29	22	29	30	34	30	41	35	32
UCLA: Anderson	US	33	34	34	28	31	35	35	34	28	33	32	33	27	30	27	29	30
Hong Kong UST Business School	China	33	36	35	33	34	37	40	28		52	44	48	53	66	45	52
University of Oxford: Sad	UK	32	28	27	26	24	30	27	24	21	23	14	21	22	20	25
University of Virginia: Darden	US	32	30	35	29	29	29	29	31	21	24	21	27	26	30	28	23	29
Dartmouth College: Tuck	US	32	33	34	33	35	33	33	35	33	31	25	24	32	32	31	32	31
University of Michigan: Ross	US	32	33	30	31	30	33	34	34	34	31	31	24	28	28	26	28	30
Insead	France	31	34	31	33	33	29	29	24	22	17	19	24	22	24	24	20	16
University of Cambridge: Judge	UK	30	27	29	29	26	28	23	32	31	25	23	33	35	23
HEC Paris	France	30	24	36	32	26	26	29	26	29	29	22	18	28	26	32	23	19
Cornell University: Johnson	US	29	31	32	30	29	33	35	26	24	27	28	27	26	28	27	25	26
IE Business School	Spain	28	27	29	30	29	30	34	36	36	36	36	38	40	41	39	36	35
Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	US	27	21	27	29	25	25	21	25	21	22	20	22	22	25	29	25
IMD	Switz	26	24	28	28	23	22	22	24	18	22	20	16	23	19	20	20	16
Iese Business School	Spain	22	26	20	22	24	25	25	28	24	23	22	25	26	20	24	21	24

Data compiled by Max Symonds and Fortuna Admissions

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