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More female students enrol for MBA

women MBA's More women will enrol for an MBA in the coming academic year, according to the Wall street Journal. Their report is based on figures due to be released this month by the Graduate Management Admission Council, an organization of graduate business schools worldwide. The proportion of female students has risen, that commission reports, citing that the number of women in full-time MBA programs is up 3 %, to an overall percentage of 30 % of female students. the percentage of women signing up for part-time and flexible MBA programs at a relatively high rate of 37%, says the GMAC (it does not have figures for 2006).

Reason to cheer? Yes and No, as, with an overall 3-in-10 female enrollment rate in M.B.A. classrooms, we are still looking at a context in which men dominate top management and diversity-minded employers have trouble securing of more women in the top of their business.

But what it does mean is that MBA’s are becoming more attainable for those that cannot raise the finance for fulltime programs, and therefore need to combine work and study, and those that want to meet family responsibilities while studying — which, according to the study, tend often to be women.

Women tend to want to pursue MBAs, the GMAC reports, at a younger age and so with less work experience than men, because doing an MBA after accumulating several years’ of work experience often coincides with women’s child-bearing years. And many women anticipate hitting the glass ceiling in business, which keeps them from hopes of a big return on any M.B.A. investment, the study shows.