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Real Numbers of MBA Admissions: Percentage of U.S. Minorities at Top U.S. Business Schools

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The percentage of U.S. minorities at top U.S. business schools can provide a sense of the diversity you will find in your MBA program. U.S. minorities is defined as enrolled students at business school who are US citizens or permanent residents who self identify as African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Native American, Asian Pacific, or Asian Indian. See the percentage of minorities as reported by top business schools in the chart below.

U.S. School % U.S. Minorities
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business 44%
Columbia Business School 40%
Cornell University SC Johnson Graduate School of Management 43%**
Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business 29%
Duke University Fuqua School of Business 45%
Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University 36%
Emory University Goizueta School of Business 13%*
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business 38%**
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business 28%
Harvard Business School 52%
The Haslam College of Business at University of Tennessee–Knoxville 14%
Indiana University Kelley School of Business 25%
Marriott School of Business at Brigham Young University 14%
Mays Business School at Texas A&M University–College Station 18%
MIT Sloan School of Management 23%
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management 43%
NYU Stern School of Business 36%
Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business 20%
Owen Graduate School of Business of Vanderbilt University 23%
Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business 30%
Stanford Graduate School of Business 48%
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business 49%
UCLA Anderson School of Management 28%**
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 51%
University of Georgia Terry College of Business 19%
University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business 36%
University of Minnesota Curtis L. Carlson School of Management 16%
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School 23%
University of Rochester Simon Business School 34%
USC Marshall School of Business 47%
UT Austin McCombs School of Business 37%
UVA Darden School of Business 21%
Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School 25%
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania 35%**
Yale School of Management 49%

*AHN includes African American, Hispanic / Latinx, Native American / Alaskan
**Class of 2024

The class size of top MBA programs figures for this Real Numbers of MBA Admissions: Percentage of U.S. Minorities at Top Business Schools chart are based on the Class of 2023, except where noted.

Lauren Wakal
Lauren Wakal has been covering the MBA admissions space for more than a decade, from in-depth business school profiles to weekly breaking news and more.