Same As It Ever Was: HBS’s Class of 2016

Here it is, hot off the presses folks: the Harvard Business School (HBS) Class of 2016 by the numbers. The first thing an astute observer will notice is that it’s not that much different from the Class of 2015. But there are a few tidbits worth noting.

For one, HBS enrolled fewer North American students, and more from other parts of the world—doubling the number of students from Africa in the Class of 2016. Consultants and finance types still represent the biggest chunk of the new class, but this year there were substantial increases in high-tech and energy.

It’s also just as difficult to get in as it ever was: only 12% of applicants (with median GMAT scores of 730) managed to pull it off. But, at least domestically, Harvard Business School seems to be casting a wider net, drawing its new class from 141 undergraduate institutions, up from 126. The Class of 2016 stats are preliminary and have not been officially released by HBS yet, but were obtained by TopMBA.com.