GRE Rising: Submission Rates & Scores At The 50 Top U.S. MBAs

Average GRE scores tell applicants where the middle of an MBA class sits. The 10th-to-90th percentile ranges show something different — and arguably more useful: how wide the door actually is.

At many of the country’s top business schools, that door is wider than the averages suggest. Harvard Business School’s 2025 GRE Quant range stretches from 159 to 169, while Stanford GSB spans 151 to 170. Columbia’s range is even broader, running from 150 to 170 in both Quant and Verbal. Dartmouth Tuck reports a 2025 Quant range of 142 to 170, despite an average combined GRE score of 322.

Those ranges are a reminder that even at highly selective MBA programs, there is no single GRE score that guarantees admission — or automatically rules an applicant out. They also show why averages alone can be misleading. A class clustered around GRE section averages in the low-to-mid 160s can still include meaningful numbers of students scoring well below that level, particularly when other parts of the application are strong.

The table below tracks reported 10th-to-90th percentile GRE ranges at 50 leading U.S. MBA programs from 2023 through 2025.

GRE Ranges At 50 Top U.S. MBA Programs (10th-90th Percentile) 2023-2025
P&Q 2025 Rank	School	2025 Quant Range	2025 Verbal Range	2024 Quant Range	2024 Verbal Range	2023 Quant Range	2023 Verbal Range
1	Northwestern (Kellogg)	NA	NA	NA	NA	146-170	148-170
2	Harvard Business School	159–169	158–168	NA	NA	145-170	150-170
3	Columbia Business School	150-170	150-170	155-169	156-167	154-168	154-167
4	Dartmouth (Tuck)	142-170	146-170	154-167	156-166	154-167	154-166
5	Virginia (Darden)	156 – 168	156 – 167	155-168	155-166	154-168	154-166
6	New York (Stern)	160 – 170	158 – 168	159-170	159-169	157-170	158-168
7	Cornell (Johnson)	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
8	Pennsylvania (Wharton)	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
9	Michigan (Ross)	155 – 170	154 – 166	153-170	152-166	155-169	154-167
10	UCLA (Anderson)	160–169	158–166	158-170	155-168	154-170	154-168
11	MIT (Sloan)	159–170	155 – 167	159-170	156-168	157-169	155-167
12	Chicago (Booth)	156-169	155-167	156-169	155-167	158-169	156-167
13	Texas-Austin (McCombs)	152 – 170	154 – 167	153-170	152-165	154-169	156-165
14	UC-Berkeley (Haas)	155-169	155-167	155-168	154-167	157-170	155-167
15	Duke (Fuqua)	152 – 168	152 – 165	151-167	152-166	152-167	151-166
16	Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	156-170	152-166	155-169	154-166	154-170	153-168
17	Yale SOM	160-170	158-169	161-170	159-170	158-170	158-169
18	Vanderbilt (Owen)	152-168	153-167	152-167	152-164	151-165	153-165
19	Washington (Olin)	158 – 170	162 – 169	155-170	157-168	157-170	151-168
20	Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller)	158 – 170	153 – 167	150-166	153-162	155-169	154-166
21	North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)	150 – 170	151 – 167	151-169	150-167	153-170	152-165
22	Emory (Goizueta)	148 – 167	151 – 162	152-168	152-163	148-166	150-165
23	Washington (Foster)	154 – 168	155 – 166	153-167	154-163	155-170	155-163
24	Southern California (Marshall)	153 – 170	156 – 166	157-169	156-167	155-170	153-166
25	Georgetown (McDonough)	152 – 167	152 – 166	154-168	152-166	154-169	152-164
26	Stanford GSB	151-170	150-170	NA	NA	150-170*	149-170*
27	Rice (Jones)	151 – 170	151 – 166	150-168	150-162	153-170	151-164
28	Notre Dame (Mendoza)	147 – 161	149 – 163	151-164	153-167	151-164	153-163
29	Georgia (Terry)	150 – 167	150 – 161	148-166	148-163	146-159	144-160
30	Rochester (Simon)	157 – 168	150 – 159	159-169	151-160	154-168	148-163
31	Arizona State (Carey)	148 – 161	152 – 163	149-163	153-160	148-161	150-164
32	UC-Irvine (Merage)	152 – 166	151 – 163	NA	NA	NA	NA
33	Texas-Dallas (Jindal)	154 – 170	153 – 163	148-162	148-162	153-163	150-163
34	Boston University (Questrom)	152 – 167	153 – 163	151-170	153-162	148-169	149-165
35	Florida (Hough)	148 – 161	154 – 162	146-163	145-160	NA	NA
36	William & Mary (Mason)	148 – 164	148 – 156	149-164	149-156	144-170	146-159
37	Brigham Young (Marriott)	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
38	Texas A&M (Mays)	152 – 161 quantitative	147 – 159	153-166	149-160	146-168	145-163
39	Indiana (Kelley)	149 – 170	152 – 165	153-169	152-163	151-170	150-165
40	Fordham (Gabelli)	157 – 157	146 – 146	153-167	149-163	150-170	143-168
41	University of Miami (Herbert)	149 – 169	151 – 170	NA	NA	NA	NA
42	Southern Methodist (Cox)	150 – 168	151 – 163	150-168	152-161	144-165	147-161
43	Minnesota (Carlson)	147 – 163	151 – 162	145-162	149-163	153-165	152-166
44	Wisconsin	148 – 167	148 – 164	150-167	152-165	146-163	150-166
45	Babson College (Olin)	162 – 168	154 – 166	156-168	145-166	158-166	151-161
46	Ohio State (Fisher)	155 – 169	153 – 167	152-167	156-165	148-168	154-165
47	Maryland (Smith)	144 – 165	147 – 159	156-169	149-166	152-168	150-158
48	Hult International	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
49	Texas Christian (Neeley)	145 – 160	142 – 155	NA	NA	NA	NA
50	Rutgers Business School	154 – 165	152 – 160	153-170	150-159	158-169	141-163
Source: U.S. News & World Report; Business School Class Profile Data

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