U.S. Business Schools With The Most Female MBA Students

One of the most common issues in graduate business school education is the relative scarcity of female MBA students at the top schools. At most of the highest ranked institutions, it’s almost rare to find more than a third of the students female.

Of the prestige, highly-ranked B-schools, NYU’s Stern School of Business is at the top of the pack, with 39.6% of its full-time students female. Harvard Business School is up there, too, with 37.2% women, while 34.7% of Stanford’s Class of 2011 being female.

Then, there’s Carnegie-Mellon University’s business school with only 22.8% of the class composed of wome and Notre Dame’s B-school with 23%.

So which U.S. schools have the largest representation of women in their full-time MBA programs? The top schools on this list will surprise you. None of the top 25 are highly ranked schools that pop up in the various surveys. Instead, you see the likes of Appalachian State University’s Walker School of Business in Boone, N.C., , where women represent 72.3% of its full-time students, and the University of West Florida’s business school in Pensacola, Fla., where women make up nearly 67% of the full-time MBAs.

MBA PROGRAMS WITH THE MOST FULL-TIME FEMALE STUDENTS

Schools	Percentage of Women
1. Simmons College (Boston)	100%
2. North Carolina A&T State	76.5%
3. Appalachian State Univ.	72.3%
4. Univ. of West Florida	66.7%
5. Rochester Institute of Technology	65.7%
6. Univ. of South Dakota	65.1%
7. College of Charleston	65.0%
8. South Carolina State	63.6%
9. Montana State Univ.	63.5%
10. William Paterson Univ.	59.5%
11. Clark Atlanta Univ.	58.3%
12. San Jose State Univ.	57.1%
13. California State Univ.	56.7%
14. Morgan State Univ.	56.5%
15. Indiana Univ.-Kokomo	56.2%
16. Southeastern Louisiana	55.2%
17. Univ. of Southern Mississippi	55.0%
18. UNC-Greensboro	54.5%
19. George Mason Univ.	54.4%
20. St. John’s Univ. (Tobin)	53.5%
21. Univ. of Texas-Pan American	53.0&
22. University of Maine	51.4%
23. Clark University	50.9%
24. Howard University	50.6%
25. Pittsburg State Univ. (Kelce)	50.4%

Data: Provided by schools for the Class of 2011