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As an MBA student at the College of Charleston, Erin Frey was sometimes one of few women in the room. Of the roughly 30 people in her cohort, about one-third were women, she says. But that one-third is still substantial when women make up less than 33 percent of students at dozens of business schools, according to U.S. News data. Frey, who graduated from the College of Charleston this year, believes gender diversity is imperative for an MBA student to have a well-rounded experience.
"Women and men can potentially bring different perspectives," she says. For Frey, having other women in her program gave her "someone to relate to not only on business but more so on life." The College of Charleston's incoming class for full-time MBAs this year will be more evenly split: 23 women out of a cohort of 53, said Jim Kindley, director of the school's MBA program, in an email. And there are schools where women are the majority of MBA students, according to a U.S. News analysis of enrollment data reported by almost 300 business schools in an annual survey. Below are the 10 ranked schools with the highest percentage of full-time female enrollees for the 2014-2015 school year. | School (name) (state) | Percentage of full-time female students (2014-2015) | U.S. News business school rank | | University of North Carolina—Greensboro (Bryan) | 65.9% | RNP | | Duquesne University (Donahue) (PA) | 65.6% | RNP | | Truman State University (MO) | 63.6% | RNP | | University of California—Berkeley (Haas) | 63.4% | 7 | | Howard University (DC) | 61.4% | RNP | | Claremont Graduate University (Drucker) (CA) | 58.2% | RNP | | University of Tulsa (Collins) (OK) | 54.8% | 83 (tie) | | San Diego State University | 54.3% | RNP | | Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (Ourso) | 52.9% | 77 (tie) | | University of California—Riverside (Anderson) | 51.9% | RNP |
Most schools on the list are labeled RNP, meaning that they are ranked in the bottom one-fourth of their ranking category and their rank is not published. When schools focus on gender diversity in the classroom, they can help companies gain a diverse set of business leaders, says Lei Lei, dean of the business school at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey—Newark and New Brunswick. Because CEOs are typically men, "more and more major corporations, they are interested in recruiting the future potential female leaders," Lei says. Among the full-time MBA students who will be graduating from Rutgers in 2016, 51 percent are women, she says. Female leaders, such as Lei, are a rarity in business schools. Only 19.9 percent of business school deans were women during the 2014-2015 school year, according to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The percentage of women interested in studying business at the graduate level is also on the lower end of the spectrum. Women represented about 38 percent of the 2014-2015 applicant pool, according to the Graduate Management Admission Council. In full-time, two-year MBA programs, women were 37 percent of applicants in 2014 and 39 percent in 2013. Prospective business school students interested in attending a school that values gender diversity should speak with admissions officers about what schools do to make women feel welcomed, says Frey. At Rutgers, Lei says, there are special opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students who are women to receive mentoring. Women who are top executives at places such as Avon and New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are also invited to speak with students. These events can help draw more women to the MBA program, as well as help current students, she says. "That really encouraged our students, especially the women MBAs, to build a strong belief in themselves about their future and their success in their careers because they see the role models come to the classroom to talk to them," she says.
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