Tuck | Mr. Invest In Change
GMAT 710, GPA 3.1
Tuck | Mr. Chemical Engineer
GRE 326, GPA 3
INSEAD | Mr. Future AI Product Manager
GMAT 715, GPA 3.7
NYU Stern | Mr. Operations Strategy & Youth Leadership
GMAT 770, GPA 4
IE Business School | Mr. JD Garay
GRE GPA: 3.9, GPA 3.0
Kellogg SOM | Mr. Military To Entrepreneur
GMAT 745, GPA 2.38
London Business School | Mr. Decarbonisation
GMAT 695, GPA 3.5
Kellogg SOM | Mr. MENA Growth Equity
GMAT 730, GPA 3.4
Kellogg SOM | Mr. West Point Logistics
GRE 327, GPA 2.76
Harvard | Mr. Energy & AI PM
GRE 328, GPA 9.65
Tepper | Mr. Tech Mil-Veteran
GMAT TBD, GPA 3.35
Columbia | Mr. European MBB Consultant
GMAT 645 (Gmat Focus), GPA 8.2
MIT Sloan | Mr. Startup Strategy
GMAT 720, GPA 3.7
Stanford GSB | Mr. Mid-Market PE
GMAT 770, GPA 4
Stanford GSB | Mr. MBB Guy From Big 4 & Startup
GRE 325, GPA 3

The Old GMAT Is Fading Away. Here’s What Top MBA Scores Look Like Now At 50 Top U.S Programs

At 45 of 47 top-ranked U.S. MBA programs with comparable data, more Class of 2027 students submitted GMAT Focus scores

by: Kristy Bleizeffer on September 03, 2026 | 9 minute read

HISTORIC GMAT LEGACY AVERAGES, 2019-2025

The table tracks reported Legacy GMAT averages at leading U.S. MBA programs from 2019 through 2025, showing how scores moved in the years before and during the transition to the redesigned GMAT.

Schools are ordered by their Poets&Quants 2026 U.S. MBA ranking. The 2025 figures reflect the MBA class entering in fall 2025, or the Class of 2027. Asterisks indicate schools reporting a median rather than an average; blank cells indicate that comparable Legacy GMAT data was not reported.

P&Q 2026 Rank
School
Gmat Legacy Average 2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
1 Northwestern (Kellogg) 733 733 731 729 727 727 730
2 Harvard Business School 730* 740* 740* 730* 730* 730* 730*
3 Columbia Business School 734 732 730 729 729 726 727
4 Dartmouth (Tuck) 727 727 726 726 724 720 723
5 Virginia (Darden) 725 718 716 720 715 703 713
6 New York (Stern) 737 733 732 733 729 723 721
7 710* 710* 710* 710* 700* 697
8 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 735 732 728 733 733 722 732
9 Michigan (Ross) 731 728 719 720 722 710 719
10 UCLA (Anderson) 703 714 710 711 714 706 719
11 MIT (Sloan) 720* 730* 730* 730* 730* 725* 727
12 Chicago (Booth) 736 729 728 729 732 724 730
13 704 704 706 708 704 704
14 UC-Berkeley (Haas) 730* 730* 740* 729 726 727 725
15 Duke (Fuqua) 718 716 718 713 702 705
16 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 707 697 705 702 691 680 687
17 Yale SOM *740 730* 720* 725* 726 720 721
18 703 687 690 690 676 680
19 706 696 670 686 687 695
20 689 694 690 682 680 681
21 707 696 706 696 694 697
22 705 709 700 692 683 684
23 700 702 703 704 692 695
24 722 722 732 716 707 708
25 Georgetown (McDonough) 700 696 695 697 705 691 694
26 Stanford GSB 738 738 738 737 738 733 734
27 Rice (Jones) ** 694 695 702 705 689 710
28 680 687 670 670 656 665

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