According to a Forté Foundation analysis, the number of women matriculating to full-time MBA programs continues to grow. In 2022, among the 56 members of the Forte Foundation coalition, women’s enrollment averaged 41.4 percent, up slightly from 41.2 percent in 2021. This is an increase of almost ten percentage points from 2011. Two full-time MBA programs achieved gender parity: Johns Hopkins’ Carey and University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton. And, an increasing number of programs came close; in 2022, 17 programs enrolled at least 45 percent women (see list below), up from 10 the year before. There were zero in 2012.
“It’s exciting and gratifying to see the impact of our efforts over the last two decades to close the gender parity gap in MBA programs,” Elissa Sangster, Forté’s CEO, told Bizwomen, an online business journal. “More women today understand the opportunities an MBA offers and our work has helped build the pipeline of young women interested in business careers and advancing to leadership,” she said.
Full-time MBA programs where women’s enrollment reached at least 45 percent in 2022:
Johns Hopkins University (Carey): 52 percent
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton): 50 percent
Southern Methodist University (Cox): 48 percent
Duke University (Fuqua): 48 percent
Northwestern University (Kellogg): 48 percent
Oxford University (Saïd): 48 percent
Washington University in St. Louis (Olin): 47 percent
University of Cambridge (Judge): 47 percent
George Washington University: 47 percent
University of California-Berkeley (Haas): 46 percent
Harvard Business School: 46 percent
University of Southern California (Marshall): 46 percent
MIT (Sloan): 46 percent
New York University (Stern): 45 percent
Alliance Manchester School of Business: 45 percent
Dartmouth College (Tuck): 45 percent
Columbia University: 45 percent