Making the grade - with an M.B.A.: enrollment of women is up at NY business schools. (New York State)(Women in Business)

Crain's New York Business, September, 1997 by Birger, Jon

Enrollment of women is up at NY business schools Once a novelty, women business school students have become valuable commodities for local M.B.A. programs. "None of the other top business schools can match our women," boasts Linda B. Meehan, director of admissions for New York's Columbia Business School.

For the second consecutive year, Columbia will have a higher percentage of women in its incoming class than any other leading business school. Whereas in 1991, women constituted only 27% of Columbia's first-year M.B.A. students, women made up 35% of Columbia's first-year class in 1996 and will account for 37% of this year's class. Drawing recruiters Ms. Meehan is convinced Columbia's growing female enrollment is having a positive impact upon on-campus...

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