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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 41%
Boston College Carroll School of Management 26%
BYU Marriott School of Business (Class of 2025) 3%
Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business 55%*
Columbia Business School 44%
Cornell University SC Johnson Graduate School of Management 22%*
Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business 29%
Duke University Fuqua School of Business 56%
Emory University Goizueta School of Business 28%**
Georgetown University McDonough School of Business 33%
Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business 20%**
Harvard Business School 47%
Indiana University Kelley School of Business 21%
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School 76%
Michigan State University Broad 33%
MIT Sloan School of Management 50%
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management 31%
Notre Dame University Mendoza (Class of 2025) 20%**
NYU Stern School of Business 46%
Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business 31%
Owen Graduate School of Business of Vanderbilt University 19%
Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business 57%
SMU Cox School of Business 16%**
Stanford Graduate School of Business 53%
UC Berkeley Haas School of Business 51%
UCLA Anderson School of Management 56%
University of Chicago Booth School of Business 52%
University of Florida Warrington 53%
University of Georgia Terry College of Business 13%
University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business 53%
University of Minnesota Curtis L. Carlson School of Management 30%
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School n/a
University of Rochester Simon Business School 35%**
USC Marshall School of Business 21%**
UT Austin McCombs School of Business 23%
UVA Darden School of Business 23%
University of Washington Foster School of Business 59%
Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School 34%**
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania 35%
Yale School of Management 56%

*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 2026, unless otherwise 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.