The top California MBA programs all draw strongly from the California market of potential MBA applicants. We need to be competitive with Berkeley and Stanford on this basis. But Baldwin does note that the number of women applicants went up this year. Certainly not secondary to our ability to attract female students to the school, is the school's prioritization of women's issues in the academic environment. Dahm notes that some schools in this top ten have made research and teaching of women's issues in the business environment a priority.
Some schools have research institutes dedicated to the subject of women in management.
Columbia has integrated women's issues and case studies involving women into the required courses, much more so than here at Anderson. We started out with Linda Jacober, but haven't seen a whole lot since. These are specific areas that Anderson can look at to improve the quality of life here for women. The number of top 10 business schools overall that made this list is impressive, meaning that women's issues now, and more and more in the future, will be important in evaluating a school as a whole. We should start to give serious consideration to determining the right strategy for tackling these issues here at Anderson.