The Graduate Management Admission Council said Sept. 29 that the number of women applicants in 2014 fell slightly for full-time, two-year MBA programs to 37% this year vs. 39% in 2013.
Wharton reported a slight fall in the percentage of women enrolled in its full-time MBA Class of 2016 to 40%, from 42% a year ago. The school had set a record in 2011 among the world’s elite business schools for having a 44.7% female ratio. Harvard Business School maintained its 41% level of representation in its just-entered class of MBAs.
GMAC’s just published Application Trends Survey counted 106,877 applications from women, 38% of the 2014–2015 applicant pool.
Women represent 43% of all GMAT exams taken worldwide. GMAC said that women make up a majority of students in master’s programs in marketing and communications (65%), accounting (62%), and management (54%). In master’s of accounting programs, there was a year-over-year increase of three full percentage points from 59% in 2013.
GMAC said that women also represent 40% or more of the applicants in part-time lockstep MBA programs (41%), part-time self-paced MBA programs (40%), flexible MBA programs (43%), and master of finance programs (46%).
GMAC said that testing year 2013 marked the fifth year in a row that women broke the 100,000 mark in the number of GMAT exams taken.
For more information see the 2014 GMAC Application Trends Survey
