In only four of the top 25 U.S. MBA programs has the number of enrolled women dropped over the last five years — and none more than three percentage points. Conversely, at some programs the number has skyrocketed — which brings into sharp relief just how far some schools had to go in narrowing the gender gap.
| P&Q Rank & School | 2017 Female % | 2016 Female % | 2015 Female % | 2014 Female % | 2013 Female % | 5-Year Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Penn (Wharton) | 44% | 44% | 43% | 40% | 42% | +2 |
| 2. Harvard Business School | 42% | 43% | 41% | 41% | 41% | +1 |
| 3. Stanford GSB | 40% | 41% | 40% | 42% | 36% | +4 |
| 4. Chicago (Booth) | 40% | 42% | 42% | 36% | 35% | +5 |
| 5. Northwestern (Kellogg) | 42% | 41% | 43% | 41% | 43% | -1 |
| 6. MIT (Sloan) | 42% | 40% | 41% | 39% | 34% | +8 |
| 7. Dartmouth (Tuck) | 44% | 44% | 42% | 32% | 32% | +12 |
| 8. Columbia | 41% | 38% | 36% | 36% | 36% | +5 |
| 9. UC-Berkeley (Haas) | 40% | 38% | 41% | 43% | 29% | +11 |
| 10. Yale SOM | 43% | 43% | 40% | 37% | 39% | +4 |
| 11. Michigan (Ross) | 43% | 40% | 32% | 32% | 33% | +10 |
| 12. Duke (Fuqua) | 34% | 35% | 36% | 35% | 32% | +2 |
| 13. Virginia (Darden) | 39% | 39% | 35% | 32% | 30% | +9 |
| 14. Cornell (Johnson) | 27% | 31% | 26% | 32% | 30% | -3 |
| 15. UCLA (Anderson) | 38% | 32% | 30% | 33% | 34% | +4 |
| 16. NYU (Stern) | 38% | 35% | 35% | 36% | 39% | -1 |
| 17. CMU (Tepper) | 27% | 28% | 26% | 27% | 29% | -2 |
| 18. Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 40% | 37% | 31% | 32% | 26% | +14 |
| 18. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 30% | 30% | 30% | 26% | 27% | +3 |
| 20. Emory (Goizueta) | 30% | 24% | 34% | 30% | 24% | +6 |
| 21. Indiana (Kelley) | 29% | 30% | 29% | 32% | 25% | +4 |
| 22. Washington (Foster) | 36% | 43% | 34% | 43% | 34% | +2 |
| 23. Georgetown (McDonough) | 32% | 34% | 31% | 32% | 27% | +5 |
| 24. Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 28% | 18% | 30% | 29% | 24% | +4 |
| 25. Rice (Jones) | 34% | 24% | 35% | 32% | 37% | -3 |
