GMAT Vs. GRE: Which Schools Prefer Which Test — And Which (Still) Don’t Require Any

GRE SUBMISSION RATES AT THE TOP 54 U.S. B-SCHOOLS 2017-2023

P&Q Rank School % GRE 2023 % GRE 2022 % GRE 2021 % GRE 2020 % GRE 2019 % GRE 2018 % GRE 2017 2-Year Trend 7-Year Trend
1 Stanford GSB 39% 33% 24% 25% 19% 18% 16% +6 +23
2 Harvard Business School 34% 30% 29% 22% 20% 15% 12% +4 +22
3 Dartmouth (Tuck) 42% 38% 37% 39% 21% 15% 15% +4 +27
4 Columbia Business School 26% 26% 23% 24% 16% 9% 7% Even +19
5 Yale SOM 37% 39% 36% 35% 26% 25% N/A -2 NA
6 Duke (Fuqua) 37% 36% 33% 38% 23% 14% 11% +1 +26
7 Cornell (Johnson) 16% 22% 19% 18% 18% 14% 11% -6 +5
8 Virginia (Darden) 34% 36% 38% 28% 23% 18% 8% -2 +26
9 Michigan (Ross) 36% 30% 33% 37% 34% 24% 19% +6 +17
10 New York (Stern) 22% 21% 18% 23% 18% 19% 12% +1 +10
11 Chicago (Booth) 32% N/A 18% 17% 13% N/A N/A NA NA
12 Northwestern (Kellogg) 29% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A NA NA
13 UCLA (Anderson) 32% 22% 19% 14% 10% 9% 10% +10 +22
14 MIT (Sloan) 34% 32% 24% N/A 24% N/A 18% +2 +16
15 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 53% 45% 36% 35% 21% 11% 10% +8 +43
16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 24% 17% 17% 11% 19% 14% 11% +7 +13
17 Washington (Foster) 32% 9% 36% 27% 21% 16% 17% +23 +15
18 Rice (Jones) 31% 7% 35% 29% 31% 22% 12% +24 +19
19 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 30% 40% 42% 38% 33% 23% 18% -10 +12
20 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 23% 19% 26% 22% 48% 30% 20% +4 +3
21 Vanderbilt (Owen) 23% 22% 23% 19% 16% 12% 13% +1 +10
22 Southern California (Marshall) 33% 33% 31% 25% 29% 20% 21% Even +12
23 Emory (Goizueta) 24% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 13% NA +11
24 Georgetown (McDonough) 37% 49% 48% 54% 43% 33% 28% -12 +9
25 Florida (Warrington) 6% 46% 62% 45% 50% 24% 21% -40 -15
26 Rochester (Simon) 27% 16% 19% 23% 27% 20% 23% +11 +4
27 Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) 30% 26% 20% 26% 29% 35% 25% +4 +5
28 Washington (Olin) 27% 47% 70% 71% 49% 50% 27% -20 Even
29 Georgia (Terry) 32% 38% 32% 42% 34% 33% 33% -6 -1
30 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 27% 16% 17% 37% 24% 13% 20% +11 +7
31 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 37% 30% 24% N/A 15% 10% 11% +7 +26
32 Brigham Young (Marriott) 8% N/A N/A N/A 19% N/A N/A NA NA
33 Texas-Dallas (Jindal) 41% 44% 33% 36% 62% 40% 45% -3 -4
34 William & Mary (Mason) 13% 15% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A -2 NA
35 Arizona State (Carey) 30% 37% 46% 48% 43% 40% 30% -7 Even
36 Boston (Carroll) 20% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
37 Indiana (Kelley) 13% 20% 15% 26% 23% 14% 10% -7 +3
38 Michigan State (Broad) 14% 5% 14% 23% 14% 29% 8% +9 +6
39 Maryland (Smith) 16% 18% 22% 28% 33% 38% 31% -2 -15
40 UC-Irvine (Merage) 6% 29% 12% 7% 20% 11% 14% -23 -8
41 Boston University (Questrom) 28% 18% 29% 49% 52% 45% 29% +10 -1
42 George Washington 12% 23% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A -11 NA
43 Texas A&M (Mays) 39% 39% 38% 29% 39% 36% 33% Even +6
44 Minnesota (Carlson) 11% 15% 20% 36% 30% 24% 22% -4 -11
45 UC-Davis 22% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
46 Southern Methodist (Cox) 22% 23% 20% 31% 40% 47% 20% -1 +2
47 Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim) 7% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
48 Babson (Olin) 11% NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA
49 Rutgers Business School 15% 6% N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A +9 NA
50 Ohio State (Fisher) 33% 23% 44% 53% 35% 31% 45% +10 -12
52 Pittsburgh (Katz) 25% 23% 24% 58% 34% 22% 29% +2 -4
53 Wisconsin 15% 21% 30% 15% 16% 10% 12% -6 +3
55 Utah (Eccles) 24% 38% 40% 12% N/A N/A N/A -14 NA
59 Penn State (Smeal) NA 22% 33% 19% 35% 26% 24% NA NA
Source: U.S. News & World Report and school websites

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