GMAT Versus GRE: Which Top-50 MBA Programs Prefer Which Test?

At UCLA Anderson School of Management in 2021-2022, 77% of MBA admits submitted GMAT scores with their applications, highest among all top-50 U.S. B-schools

“Standardized tests,” writes former Graduate Management Admission Council CEO Sangeet Chowfla, “are a useful tool in the admission process. The benefit is in the word – standardized – that provides an empirical data point that is free from bias and interpretation. A GMAT 700 is a GMAT 700. You cannot wish it away if you are unfamiliar with the candidate’s background or uncomfortable with their color, origin, orientation, or political beliefs. They are not without issues – in structure and in usage. We should strive to make them better, not throw the baby out with the bathwater of the politics of the day.”

2023 P&Q Rank	School	% GMAT 2022	% GRE 2022	Tests Required?
1	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	71%	30%	Yes
2	Chicago (Booth)	73%	N/A	Yes
3	Stanford GSB	67%	33%	Yes
4	Northwestern (Kellogg)	76%	N/A	Yes
5	Harvard Business School	74%	30%	Yes
6	MIT (Sloan)	54%	32%	Waiver can be requested
7	Columbia Business School	55%	26%	Yes
8	Yale SOM	58%	39%	Yes
9	Dartmouth (Tuck)	68%	38%	Yes
10	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	49%	45%	Yes
11	Michigan (Ross)	43%	30%	Waiver can be requested
12	Duke (Fuqua)	46%	36%	Yes
13	Cornell (Johnson)	50%	22%	Waiver can be requested
14	Virginia (Darden)	40%	36%	Waiver can be requested
15	New York (Stern)	49%	21%	Waiver can be requested
16	UCLA (Anderson)	77%	22%	No
17	Southern California (Marshall)	42%	33%	Waiver can be requested
18	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	44%	40%	Waiver can be requested
19	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	29%	19%	Waiver can be requested
20	Washington (Foster)	64%	9%	No
21	Emory (Goizueta)	50%	N/A	Waiver can be requested
22	Indiana (Kelley)	50%	20%	Waiver can be requested
23	Washington (Olin)	30%	47%	No
24	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	69%	17%	Waiver can be requested
25	Georgetown (McDonough)	39%	49%	Waiver can be requested
26	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	37%	26%	No
27	Vanderbilt (Owen)	47%	22%	Waiver can be requested
27	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	48%	16%	Waiver can be requested
29	Rice (Jones)	39%	7%	Waiver can be requested
30	Rochester (Simon)	39%	16%	No
31	Arizona State (Carey)	44%	37%	Waiver can be requested
32	Minnesota (Carlson)	33%	15%	Waiver can be requested
33	Penn State (Smeal)	27%	22%	No
34	Brigham Young (Marriott)	39%	N/A	Waiver can be requested
35	Ohio State (Fisher)	36%	23%	Waiver can be requested
36	Georgia (Terry)	29%	38%	Waiver can be requested
37	Boston (Questrom)	17%	18%	Waiver can be requested
38	Texas A&M (Mays)	33%	39%	Yes
39	Wisconsin	42%	21%	No
40	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	33%	44%	Waiver can be requested
41	Maryland (Smith)	24%	18%	No
42	Florida (Hough)	54%	46%	Yes
43	Pittsburgh (Katz)	54%	23%	No
44	UC-Irvine (Merage)	24%	29%	Waiver can be requested
45	Michigan State (Broad)	32%	5%	No
46	Southern Methodist (Cox)	26%	23%	No
47	William & Mary (Mason)	14%	15%	No
48	Rutgers Business School	59%	6%	No
49	Utah (Eccles)	27%	38%	Yes
50	George Washington	25%	23%	No

Source: U.S. News & World Report

See the next page for a breakdown of GRE score submission rates at the top 50 U.S. B-schools from 2017 to 2022.