Average GMAT Scores For The Top 50 Business Schools

A 14-point jump in average GMATs at Wharton in the past five years puts the school just a point behind leader Stanford GSB

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Average GMAT Scores At The Top 50 U.S. MBA Programs

 

P&Q Rank & School 2015 GMAT 2014 GMAT 2013 GMAT 2012 GMAT 2011 GMAT 5-Year Trend
  1. Harvard Business School 725 726 727 724 724 +1
  2. Stanford GSB 733 732 732 729 739 -6
  3. Chicago (Booth) 726 724 723 720 719 +7
  4. Penn (Wharton) 732 728 725 718 718 +14
  5. Northwestern (Kellogg) 724 713 713 708 712 +12
  6. Columbia 715 716 716 715 716 -1
  7. MIT (Sloan) 716 713 713 710 710 +6
  8. UC-Berkeley (Haas) 715 717 714 715 715 ——-
  9. Dartmouth (Tuck) 717 716 718 717 718 -1
10. Yale SOM 721 719 714 717 719 +2
11. Duke (Fuqua) 696 690 694 690 689 +7
12. Virginia (Darden) 706 706 706 703 701 +5
13. Michigan (Ross) 708 702 704 703 703 +5
14. UCLA (Anderson) 713 715 706 704 704 +9
14. Cornell (Johnson) 697 692 691 694 691 +6
16. New York (Stern) 720 721 721 720 719 +1
17. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 701 697 683 692 689 +12
18. Texas-Austin (McCombs) 694 690 690 692 692 +2
19. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 690 687 691 693 686 +4
20. Emory (Goizueta) 678 678 681 677 681 -3
21. Indiana (Kelley) 668 668 664 664 670 -2
22. Washington (Foster) 688 682 670 670 675 +8
23. Washington Univ. (Olin) 695 699 696 698 696 -1
24. Georgetown (McDonough) 692 691 688 683 686 +6
25. Notre Dame (Mendoza) 682 686 690 687 692 -10

Source: Poets&Quants analysis from available GMAT data

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