Diversity and Inclusion

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MBAs celebrate earning their LeaderCORE™ certification.

Join a business school that represents the real world. We understand that diversity is an asset in the C-suite and throughout organizations.

The UB MBA Community: Multidimensional Diversity

During your UB MBA experience, the people you meet will become part of your community and your network, supporting you in your post-MBA career aspirations. We welcome under-represented minorities (URM) and diversity across all dimensions.

Employers want highly functioning teams with the widest possible range of perspectives. Our ability to attract students from different backgrounds and countries, and send them out with the common language of business, commitment to teamwork and understanding of management and leadership, will be instrumental in your career success.

As a promoter of diversity in the workplace, we are proud of UB’s rich reputation, and our experiential action learning and diverse cohort will benefit you as you prepare for a career anywhere around the world.

Learn more about our schoolwide diversity and inclusion efforts.

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Diversity Positively Correlated to Financial Performance

“Companies in the top quartile for board-gender diversity are 27 percent more likely to outperform financially than those in the bottom quartile. Similarly, companies in the top quartile for ethnically diverse boards are 13 percent more likely to outperform than those in the bottom quartile.

Further, a striking new finding is that leadership diversity is also convincingly associated with holistic growth ambitions, greater social impact, and more satisfied workforces.”

Source: Diversity Matters Even More (2023), the fourth report in a McKinsey series investigating the business case for diversity.

Our Success

“We capitalized on our team’s different backgrounds and experiences to present a solid plan for KeyBank to monetize their security capabilities.”

8/11/22

Danielle Vazquez, MPH/MBA ’19

KeyBank Foundation Minority MBA Student Case Competition

“For me, the job search was a process. I went about it as if I was the only person who could find myself a job – not the networks, not the school. I had to make sure I had the right networks and was doing the right things. Anything that would make me more marketable, I would do it.”

1/5/22

Rody Damis, JD/MBA '13

Senior Legislative Analyst, Executive Office of the President of the United States

“I doubled down on marketing and consulting classes because that’s what I wanted to do in my career, while gaining a working understanding of disciplines like accounting, finance and supply chains.”

8/11/22

Terry Rice, MBA ’05

Business Development Consultant; Business Development Expert-in-Residence at Entrepreneur Magazine; adjunct faculty, Digital Marketing, New York University