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How Many S&P 500 Leaders Hold an MBA
Share of S&P 500 leaders with a known school who hold an MBA, %
3 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier·2 of 3 are at a five-year high
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.
S&P 500 members on 1 July of each year, from their proxy statements (SEC EDGAR). Counts people whose filings name a school; many proxies print none, so the coverage chart goes with this one. Schools matched to ROR; business, law and medical schools count toward their university.
The MBA among the people who run and oversee the largest U.S. companies, year by year, point in time.
What this chart reads
- S&P 500 CEOs with an MBAas “CEOs”latest 2026-07-01
- S&P 500 executive officers with an MBAas “Executive officers”latest 2026-07-01
- S&P 500 directors with an MBAas “Directors”latest 2026-07-01
Sources
S&P 500 CEOs with an MBA. Source: Palanor calculation from SEC filings (DEF 14A proxy statements and 10-K certifications on EDGAR; public domain) and Wikidata (CC0), with institutions from the Research Organization Registry (ror.org, CC0). Refreshed.
S&P 500 executive officers with an MBA. Source: Palanor calculation from SEC filings (DEF 14A proxy statements and 10-K certifications on EDGAR; public domain) and Wikidata (CC0), with institutions from the Research Organization Registry (ror.org, CC0). Refreshed.
S&P 500 directors with an MBA. Source: Palanor calculation from SEC filings (DEF 14A proxy statements and 10-K certifications on EDGAR; public domain) and Wikidata (CC0), with institutions from the Research Organization Registry (ror.org, CC0). Refreshed.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.