The Great Indian MBA Craze

Ashish Bharadwaj, Regional Director, South Asia, GMAC was quoted saying to TOI "More applications from women candidates should enable management programmes to craft a more diverse class and meet the requirements of corporate recruiters who have been voicing the need for a more gender-balanced management pool."

The report states "Regionally, across all MBA programs, full-time one-year MBA programs in Asia (Asia-Pacific and Central Asia combined) reported the greatest growth in female application volume in 2012 at 77 percent, compared with 32 percent of full-time one-year MBA programs in Europe and 47 percent in the United States," as reported by TOI.

The findings of the survey also revealed - special efforts made to recruit entrepreneurs (6 percent), pre-experience candidates (13 percent), and members of the LGBT community (9 percent). However what hasn’t changed is that worldwide, Indian, Chinese, and U.S. citizens accounted for the most number of foreign applicants to MBA programs for 43, 27, and 6 percent of MBA programs, respectively.