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Stanford Business School Welcomes 385 MBA Students in Class of 2011
September, 2009
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS —The 385 members of the MBA Class of 2011 hold passports from 54 different countries, and joined the Stanford community from 244 different organizations in 57 different industries, according to Derrick Bolton, assistant dean and director of MBA Admissions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
In his Sept. 14 welcome address to the incoming class, Bolton said his office offered admission to 6.7% of 7,535 applicants, which "places Stanford among the most selective business schools in the world."
Women comprise 34% of the class. Countries from which the 33% international students hail include: Canada, China, India, and Mexico. In terms of work experience, 30% of the class came from investment management, 26% from consumer products manufacturing and services, 20% from consulting, 9% from nonprofit and government, and 6% from high tech manufacturing and services.
The diverse backgrounds of incoming students include:
• A South American tennis champion who ranked #7 in the world,
• A water polo player who earned a silver medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,
• A personal aide to the President of the United States,
• An advisor to the Prime Minister of India,
• The youngest advisor to the South American country's equivalent of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission,
• 10 Fulbright Scholars,
• 59 advanced degree-holders including engineers, attorneys, medical doctors, and economists.
Before holding up the statistical mirror to the incoming class, Bolton offered this message: "To admit your class, we turned away really amazing candidates, who — just like you — have done incredible things, and who have compelling prospects for the future. Why tell you this? It's my goal to remind you that by sitting in the seat you're in, you have an incredible responsibility, because of the potential you have to take advantage of the opportunity here at Stanford Business School, in shaping the future for our society."
Sunil Kumar, in his first outing as the new senior associate dean for Academic Affairs, told students that the Stanford Graduate School of Business takes seriously its two-pronged goal of idea-creation through faculty research, and idea-dissemination through teaching. "The way our ideas see impact is because they're co-developed with you; you then take them out into the real world, and you live up to our aspirations and change the world," he said.