Here are the percent of students who majored in business and are full time students at highly regarded MBA programs. I used the US News’ MBA rankings as a base of which are highly regarded. If any poster is wondering why I omitted schools like UT Austin, it is because they did not publish undergraduate majors in the full time MBA class profile. Based on these numbers @merc81 it hardly seems that relatively few students in the best MBA programs majored in business as an undergraduate.
-Stanford: [13%[/url]
-Harvard: [url=<a href=“http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile/Pages/default.aspx%5D45%%5B/url”>http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile/Pages/default.aspx]45%[/url] (note that Harvard does not distinguish between business and economics majors in its published class profile)
-UPenn Wharton: [url=<a href=“http://mba.wharton.upenn.edu/admissions/class-profile/%5D29%%5B/url”>http://mba.wharton.upenn.edu/admissions/class-profile/]29%[/url]
-UChicago Booth: [url=<a href=“http://www.chicagobooth.edu/programs/full-time#simple2%5DLooks”>http://www.chicagobooth.edu/programs/full-time#simple2]Looks to be at least 35%](MBA Entering Class Profile | Stanford Graduate School of Business)
-MIT Sloan: [21%[/url]
-Northwestern University - Kellogg: [url=<a href=“http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/admissions/class-profile.aspx%5D48%”>http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/admissions/class-profile.aspx]48% (does not distinguish between economics and business majors)](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/mba/admissions/class-profile2/)
-UC Berkeley Haas: [26%[/url]
-Columbia University: [url=<a href=“https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs/mba/admissions/class-profile%5D34%%5B/url”>https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/programs/mba/admissions/class-profile]34%[/url]
-Dartmouth College - Tuck School: [url=<a href=“https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/uploads/recruiting/2016.pdf%5D24%%5B/url”>https://www.tuck.dartmouth.edu/uploads/recruiting/2016.pdf]24%[/url]
-University of Virginia Darden: [url=<a href=“http://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/community/class-profile/%5D35%%5B/url”>http://www.darden.virginia.edu/mba/community/class-profile/]35%[/url]
-New York University Stern: [url=<a href=“http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/students/class-profile%5D24%%5B/url”>http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba/students/class-profile]24%[/url]
-University of Michigan Ross: [url=<a href=“https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/full-time-mba/class-profile”>https://michiganross.umich.edu/programs/full-time-mba/class-profile</a>] 24%](Class Profile | Full-Time MBA | Berkeley Haas)
-Duke University Fuqua: [url=<a href=“http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/daytime-mba/student-life/class-statistics/%5D29%%5B/url”>http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/daytime-mba/student-life/class-statistics/]29%[/url]
-Yale University: [url=<a href=“http://som.yale.edu/our-programs/mba/admissions/class-profile%5D24.8%%5B/url”>http://som.yale.edu/our-programs/mba/admissions/class-profile]24.8%[/url]
-UCLA Anderson: [url=<a href=“http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/degrees/mba-program/admissions/class-profile%5D22%%5B/url”>http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/degrees/mba-program/admissions/class-profile]22%[/url]
-Cornell University Johnson: [url=<a href=“https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/For-Recruiters/Resources/Class-Profiles%5D33%%5B/url”>https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/For-Recruiters/Resources/Class-Profiles]33%[/url]
-Wash U St. Louis Olin: [url=<a href=“http://www.olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/academic-programs/full-time-MBA/admissions/Pages/class-profiles.aspx%5D35%%5B/url”>http://www.olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/academic-programs/full-time-MBA/admissions/Pages/class-profiles.aspx]35%[/url] (does not separate business from economics)
-Carnegie Mellon University Tepper: [url=<a href=“http://tepper.cmu.edu/recruiters-and-companies/recruit-at-tepper-school/mba/full-time-employment-statistics/class-profiles%5D20%%5B/url”>http://tepper.cmu.edu/recruiters-and-companies/recruit-at-tepper-school/mba/full-time-employment-statistics/class-profiles]20%[/url]
-Indiana University Kelley: [url=<a href=“http://kelley.iu.edu/MBA/Admissions/ClassProfile/page38380.html%5D32%%5B/url”>http://kelley.iu.edu/MBA/Admissions/ClassProfile/page38380.html]32%[/url]
-University of Washington Foster: [url=<a href=“http://foster.uw.edu/academics/degree-programs/full-time-mba/about-full-time-mba/class-profile/%5D28%%5B/url”>http://foster.uw.edu/academics/degree-programs/full-time-mba/about-full-time-mba/class-profile/]28%[/url]
-Georgetown University: [url=<a href=“http://msb.georgetown.edu/sites/default/files/FT16%20Admissions%20Profile.pdf%5D27%%5B/url”>http://msb.georgetown.edu/sites/default/files/FT16%20Admissions%20Profile.pdf]27%[/url]
-University of Southern California Marshall: [url=<a href=“https://www.marshall.usc.edu/mba/admissions/profile%5D23%%5B/url”>https://www.marshall.usc.edu/mba/admissions/profile]23%[/url]