Veteran enrollment in top MBA programs

I've recently connected the veteran club leadership of many of the top MBA programs in the country in an effort to open up communications and aid the veterans in our respective schools and beyond. One of the first topics we discussed was simply how many of us there are, so we compiled the following unofficial data:


This shows that US veterans represent around 2-4% of the top MBA schools, with an average of about 3%. There is also some variation from across the schools, but I would caution against extrapolating long term school trends from this data, as schools with smaller classes can easily have significant fluctuations in the number of veteran admits. Rather, we can look at this information as a single data point and compare it to future class years. This data also provides no insight into the acceptance rate at each school for military veterans, since applicant demographics are usually held strictly confidential.

On a positive note, there is no reason why these numbers can't go up. The HBS dean of admissions, Deirdre Leopold, is quoted in Fortune magazine talking about the number of military vets at HBS by saying "I would be happy to have that number go up."

Hopefully with the humble help of this blog, and all the resources available, those numbers will indeed go up.