High & Low GMAT Scores At The World's Leading MBA Programs

‘A MENTAL ADJUSTMENT’

“The focus has been on the scores,” acknowledges Joy Jones, the CEO of GMAC. “There is a mental adjustment. With any kind of change, there is a little bit of acclimation. We give schools the right tools and we have high engagement and frequent conversations with them to help them understand the score change.”
The changes in the scoring occurred as a result of feedback from admission officials who wanted a more detailed way to differentiate candidates who submitted GMAT test scores.
“There was compression at the top of our score scales,” says Jones. “In this case, the scores have evolved and that is probably something we have seen accumulate over time. We wanted to address this as the test population shifted. Now the score scale allows for finer differentiation. Schools had been looking for some relief in the scale.
“On the one hand there is a lot to learn. On the other hand, it better fits their needs as they have expressed them.”

TOP U.S. B-SCHOOLS’ GMAT SCORES & TRENDS 2017-2023

2024 P&Q Rank	School	Average GMAT 2023	2022	2021	2020	4-Year Trend	2019	2018	2017	7-Year Trend
1	Stanford GSB	738	737	738	733	+5	734	732	737	+1
2	Harvard Business School	740*	730*	730*	730*	+10	730*	730*	729*	+11
3	Dartmouth Tuck	726	726	724	720	+6	723	722	722	+4
4	Columbia Business School	730	729	729	726	+4	727	732	724	+6
5	Yale SOM	720*	725*	726	720	NA	721	724	727	NA
6	Duke Fuqua	716	718	713	702	+14	705	704	702	+14
7	Cornell Johnson	710*	710*	710*	700*	+10	697	699	700	NA
8	Virginia Darden	716	720	715	703	+13	713	718	713	+3
9	Michigan Ross	719	720	722	710	+9	719	720	716	+3
10	NYU Stern	732	733	729	723	+9	721	717	714	+18
11	Chicago Booth	728	729	732	724	+4	730	731	730	-2
12	Northwestern Kellogg	731	729	727	727	+4	730	732	732	-1
13	UCLA Anderson	710	711	714	706	+4	719	719	716	-6
14	MIT Sloan	730*	730*	730*	725*	+5	727	728	722	NA
15	UC-Berkeley Haas	733	729	726	727	+6	725	726	725	+8
16	Carnegie Mellon Tepper	705	702	691	680	+25	687	690	691	+14
17	Washington Foster	710*	710*	704	692	NA	695	696	693	NA
18	Rice Jones	NA	702	705	689	NA	710	706	711	NA
19	Texas-Austin McCombs	704	706	708	704	Even	704	703	703	+1
20	UNC Kenan-Flagler	696	706	696	694	+2	697	703	701	-5
21	Vanderbilt Owen	687	690	690	676	+11	680	678	690	-3
22	USC Marshall	722	732	716	707	+15	708	705	703	+19
23	Emory Goizueta	709	700	692	683	+26	684	685	682	+27
24	Georgetown McDonough	695	697	705	691	-4	694	693	692	+3
25	Florida Warrington	650	648	656	667	-17	659	673.5	NA	-23.5 **
27	Georgia Tech Scheller	694	690	682	680	+14	681	681	680	+14
31	Penn Wharton	728	733	733	722	+6	732	732	730	-2
37	Indiana Kelley	685	685	679	652	+33	666	674	678	+7

*Median

**For Florida, 6-year trend

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