Diversify Your US Candidate Pool (Diversity Net)

It has never been more important to understand, appreciate, and embrace the role of diversity in your program.

Diversity has many faces and no one definition will fit every program. GMAC^® research has shown—and graduate management programs agree—that diverse classrooms enrich the educational experience of all students. Many Fortune 500 companies list diversity as a global business imperative, and yet the challenge for many organizations is finding and developing “diverse” talent.

If your goal is to diversify your applicant pool by age, ethnicity, citizenship, undergraduate major, or a variety of other descriptors, GMAC offers products, services, and research that can assist. The GMASS® database of nearly 400,000 names of mba.com registrants, GMAT^® test registrants, and GMAT test takers is a rich source of information for GMAT using schools. In addition, our webinars and interactive research provide intelligence on everything from the interests and apprehensions of specific populations (i.e. geographic, gender, ethnicity, and age) to their influencers and potential mobility.

Resources for Increasing the Number of Women and Under-represented US Minorities

We understand the unique challenges management programs face in recruiting women and under-represented US minorities. We've spent more than three decades and invested more than $10 million in programs, organizations, and initiatives geared at diversity pipeline development for these two groups specifically.

From the The PhD Project, an initiative to increase diversity among business school faculty, to a number of programs and strategic alliances with student outreach organizations, we continue to explore ways to help you find, attract, and enroll diverse talent.

In 2007, we launched the Diversity Advisory Group (DAG), a committee comprised of school professionals who served in a “diversity” role at their respective institutions. With their guidance and assistance, we created the Diversity Net Toolkit, a straightforward, results oriented, collection of insights, recommendations and resources aimed at enhancing and maximizing diversity in US graduate schools of management.

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