Minorities At The Top U.S. MBA Programs: After 2 Years Of Declines, What Next?

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Minorities At The Top U.S. MBA Programs: After 2 Years Of Declines, What Next?

MINORITIES AT THE TOP U.S. MBA PROGRAMS, 2021-2023

P&Q 2024 Rank School US News 2024 Rank Minorities 2023 – US News Minorities 2022 – US News 2-Year Change Minorities 2021 – US News

3-Year Change

2023 Total MBA Enrollment
29 Georgia (Terry) 27T 17.3% NA NA NA

NA

110
3 Dartmouth (Tuck) 10T NA 19.9% NA NA

NA

580
4 Columbia 12T NA NA NA NA

NA

1,512
8 Virginia (Darden) 10T NA NA NA NA

NA

700
12 Northwestern (Kellogg) 3T NA NA NA NA

NA

1,442
31 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 1T 37.6% 33.0% +4.6 38.3%

-0.7

1,754
14 MIT (Sloan) 5 31.6% 27.5% +4.1 24.6%

+7.0

817
10 NYU (Stern) 7T 31.3% 27.7% +3.6 28.0%

+3.3

639
30 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 30T 18.1% 15.3% +2.8 13.9%

+4.2

238
27 Georgia Tech (Scheller) 25 25.5% 23.7% +1.8 31.0%

-5.5

145
7 Cornell (Johnson) 15 21.7% 21.0% +0.7 28.0%

-6.3

577
11 Chicago (Booth) 3T 30.9% 30.4% +0.5 20.1%

+10.8

1,307
26 Rochester (Simon) 32 31.1% 31.0% +0.1 37.4%

-6.3

196
24 Georgetown (McDonough) 24 19.9% 23.9% -4.0 26.8%

-6.9

497
25 Florida (Warrington) 36 14.0% 17.6% -3.6 27.4%

-13.4

57
6 Duke (Fuqua) 12T 23.9% 27.5% -3.6 27.6%

-3.7

787
16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 16T 24.2% 27.0% -2.8 29.9%

-5.7

359
5 Yale SOM 7T 26.9% 29.5% -2.6 32.6%

-5.7

718
21 Vanderbilt (Owen) 20T 17.3% 19.8% -2.5 19.8%

-2.5

306
37 Indiana (Kelley) 20T 19.2% 21.7% -2.5 26.4%

-7.2

219
19 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 16T 24.7% 26.6% -1.9 29.4%

-4.7

454
2 Harvard 6 30.9% 32.2% -1.3 32.2%

-1.3

1,953
15 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 7T 25.7% 26.7% -1.0 28.1%

-2.4

509
13 UCLA (Anderson) 20T 27.7% 28.7% -1.0 32.5%

-4.8

610
18 Rice (Jones) 29 30.9% 31.9% -1.0 33.8%

-2.9

307
22 USC (Marshall) 18T 31.8% 32.6% -0.8 33.9%

-2.1

384
9 Michigan (Ross) 12T 24.8% 25.5% -0.7 25.8%

-1.0

734
1 Stanford 1T 32.4% 33.1% -0.7 34.3%

-1.9

873
20 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 20T 16.8% 17.2% -0.4 21.2%

-4.4

495
28 Washington (Olin) 26 22.9% 23.2% -0.3 29.7%

-6.8

170
17 Washington (Foster) 27T 22.9% 23.1% -0.2 23.0%

-0.1

210
23 Emory (Goizueta) 18T 24.1% 24.3% -0.2 30.6%

-6.5

237
Source: U.S. News & World Report

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