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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. Business school students who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents and self-identify as African American or Black, American Indian or Alaska Native, Asian American, Hispanic American or Latinx, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or those who are multiracial or multiethnic are considered a minority. See the percentage of minorities as reported by top business schools in the chart below.

U.S. School % U.S. Minorities
ASU W.P. Carey School of Business 26%
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business 49%*
Columbia Business School 43%
Cornell University SC Johnson Graduate School of Management 35%*
Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business 32%
Duke University Fuqua School of Business 40%
Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University 21%
Emory University Goizueta School of Business 25%**
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business 42%
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business 30%**
Harvard Business School 49%
The Haslam College of Business at University of Tennessee–Knoxville 14%
Indiana University Kelley School of Business 21%
MIT Sloan School of Management 35%
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management 42%
NYU Stern School of Business 47%
Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business 25%
Owen Graduate School of Business of Vanderbilt University 9%
Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business 42%
Stanford Graduate School of Business 50%
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business 47%
UCLA Anderson School of Management 30%
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 50%
University of Georgia Terry College of Business 14%
University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business 43%
University of Minnesota Curtis L. Carlson School of Management 36%
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School 26%
University of Rochester Simon Business School 35%**
USC Marshall School of Business 20%**
UT Austin McCombs School of Business 35%
UVA Darden School of Business 14%
University of Washington Foster School of Business 53%
Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School 46%
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania 41%
Yale School of Management 48%

*Tepper: Includes U.S. citizens and permanent residents who identify as American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Black/African American, Hispanic/Latino, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, or multiethnic.
Johnson: Includes Black/African American, Native American, and Hispanic American.
**Underrepresented U.S. minorities.

The figures for this Real Numbers of MBA Admissions: Percentage of U.S. Minorities at Top U.S. Business Schools chart are based on the Class of 2025, 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.