Tyra Banks Reveals She’s Attending Harvard Business School

It’s a top school for “Top Model” beauty Tyra Banks!

The 37-year-old former supermodel-turned-media mogul told Access Hollywood Live’s Kit Hoover on Tuesday that she has been attending Harvard Business School for the past year.

“I’m getting an executive education at Harvard Business School,” Tyra told Kit. “First term, we had a 180 classmates… and 18 were women, 18 out of a 180, so you can imagine. On my dorm floor, I was the only girl on my floor.”

“There’s tons of homework, and I’m constantly reading,” she explained. “Just when you think you’ve caught up and you’re ahead, BAM! They slap more on you.”

Tyra also recently spoke to CBS News about her new education endeavors – which is a shock to most people she’s told thus far.

“I get mixed reactions. There are little facial expressions… The chin goes back, like, ‘Really?’” Tyra told CBS’ Tracy Smith. “I’m, like, ‘Yeah, I’m going.’ How do I react to that? I kind of take a pause and kind of analyze what this is. And a lot of it is just shock.”

The TV and fashion mogul has come to love people’s surprise when they hear she’s gone Ivy League.

“When people have low expectations, you’re just constantly going, ‘Ta-da!’ And they’re like, ‘Wow,’ ” she said. “It doesn’t take a lot to wow them when they have low expectations.”

The “America’s Next Top Model” host is attending Harvard’s three-part, nine-week Owner/President Management Program, which is spread out over three years. The course costs $31,000.

“In order for my company to grow and be the best, and to reach these women, and to serve them, I needed the best. So, I went to the best,” she explained. “It’s pretty exclusive. It’s quite expensive. But, I feel like it is worth it. I feel like it is so, so worth it.”

Tyra, who Forbes estimated made $30 million in 2009, said college has transformed her career.

“I think I could’ve leaned on all of my advisers. I have accountants, and lawyers, and this and investment bankers,” she continued. “But I don’t want to be that girl when I’m meeting with them, where I’m like, ‘Uh-huh, great.’ I now can say what’s the net present value on that. What’s the discounted cash flows of that, and that’s because of Harvard.”