Top B-Schools in the US are finding an increase in the number of female students and this should come as no surprise as the world renowned companies like Yahoo, Pepsi Co are spearheaded by the women CEOs.
According to Director of MBA Admissions, Wharton School, the latest class to enter the program – the class of 2011 – is an unprecedented 40-percent female, up from 36-percent female last year and 37 percent for the class of 2009. Just a few years earlier, the class of 2005 was only 33-percent female.
This number is especially high when compared to other top U.S. business schools. Harvard Business School’s class of 2011 is 37-percent female, while the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business is 35-percent and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management is 33-percent.
