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Real Humans of the Minnesota Carlson MBA Class of 2024

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Welcome to another installment of Real Humans: MBA Students in which we get to know some new members of the full-time MBA Class of 2024 at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

The average class size at the Carlson School of Management is 89. Thirty-two percent are women and 19 percent are international. Sixteen percent identify as students of color. Nineteen percent had a military background.

During their undergraduate years, Carlson MBA students earned a median GPA of 3.45. Twenty-two percent had majored in business. Engineering degrees followed at 20 percent. Another 18 percent studied social science followed by science or maths at 17 percent. Nine percent each studied economics or the humanities. When it came time to take the GMAT, Carlson MBAs landed a median score of 690. For those who took the GRE, they reported a median total score of 321. Altogether, the class averaged 4.74 years of work experience before matriculating.

See what some new students had to say about the Minnesota Carlson MBA program, what they learned through admissions and more in the following pages.

Christina Griffith
Christina Griffith is a writer and editor based in Philadelphia. She specializes in covering education, science, and history, and has experience in research and interviews, magazine content, and web content writing.