The number of Black students in MBA programs hasn't increased for more than a decade
Jun 18, 2020, 23:18 IST
- Black Americans comprise under 10% of students in MBA programs on average, and that number hasn't grown over the past decade.
- Universities haven't done enough to recruit Black students, who often have smaller professional networks, and also are disproportionately affected by high tuition costs and a lack of diversity among faculty, admissions experts told The Wall Street Journal.
- Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria wrote in an open letter to the HBS community published June 7 that his own program's efforts to recruit Black students were "painfully insufficient."
- Many top executives use MBAs to launch their careers, and business schools' diversity problems could be contributing to the lack of diversity in American C-suites, too.
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