Women in MBA Programs at Top 20 US Business Schools: Trends Analysis for 19 Years (1999 to 2017)

Abstract

If we look into the trends of the percentage of female students of top American business schools, the study reveals that there has been no significant growth in the rise of female percentage of students in these schools. To find out the current trends of female students enrolment in top US business schools, the author taken into the consideration of top 20 business schools and studied how these schools have admitted female students in between 1999 to 2017 (19 years data) based on the data available in the Financial Times (FT) MBA Rankings from 1999 to 2017. The present article presents how the Financial Times top ranked US business schools have been admitting female students in the last 19 years (1999-2017) ever since the FT MBA rankings are out.

Keywords: FT MBA Rankings, Female students, Women students, USA, Business Schools, Gender Ratio