Taking the GMAT is essential to getting to a top business school. A high GMAT score is your way of assuring the business school that you can get through the rigorous MBA program. However, there are two more benefits to a high GMAT score. Read this article to know more.
Moreover, if you are wondering what is a good GMAT score for your target business school, it is important that you know what is the average GMAT score of the last incoming class of your target business school. In this article, we share the average GMAT scores of top business schools in the US and Europe.
Average GMAT Score of top US Business Schools |
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Business School |
2018 GMAT | 2017 GMAT | 2016 GMAT | 2015 GMAT |
2014 GMAT |
| Wharton School of Business | 732 | 730 | 730 | 732 | 728 |
| Harvard Business School | 729 | 729 | 729 | 725 | 726 |
| Stanford GSB | 732 | 737 | 737 | 733 | 732 |
| Booth School of Business | 731 | 730 | 726 | 726 | 724 |
| Kellogg School of Business | 732 | 732 | 728 | 724 | 713 |
| MIT Sloan | 728 | 722 | 724 | 716 | 713 |
| Dartmouth Tuck | 722 | 722 | 717 | 717 | 716 |
| Columbia Business School | 732 | 724 | 720 | 715 | 716 |
| UC-Berkeley (Haas) | 726 | 725 | 717 | 715 | 717 |
| Yale School of Management | 724 | 727 | 725 | 721 | 719 |
| Michigan (Ross) | 720 | 716 | 708 | 708 | 702 |
| Duke (Fuqua) | 704 | 702 | 695 | 696 | 690 |
| Virginia (Darden) | 718 | 713 | 712 | 706 | 706 |
| Cornell (Johnson) | 699 | 700 | 700 | 697 | 692 |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 719 | 716 | 715 | 713 | 715 |
| NYU (Stern) | 717 | 714 | 710 | 720 | 721 |
| CMU (Tepper) | 691 | 691 | 686 | 690 | 687 |
| Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 703 | 703 | 699 | 694 | 690 |
| UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 702 | 701 | 700 | 701 | 697 |
| Emory (Goizueta) | 685 | 682 | 683 | 678 | 678 |
| Indiana (Kelley) | 677 | 678 | 670 | 668 | 668 |
| Washington (Foster) | 693 | 693 | 691 | 688 | 682 |
| Georgetown (McDonough) | 693 | 692 | 692 | 692 | 691 |
| Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 671 | 674 | 683 | 682 | 686 |
| Rice (Jones) | 706 | 711 | 690 | 676 | 676 |
| USC (Marshall) | 705 | 703 | 692 | 679 | 684 |
| Georgia Tech (Scheller) | 681 | 680 | 680 | 678 | 676 |
| Washington (Olin) | 693 | 694 | 688 | 695 | 699 |
| Michigan State (Broad) | 670 | 674 | 670 | 664 | 666 |
| Arizona State (Carey) | 682 | 682 | 682 | 672 | 673 |
| Minnesota (Carlson) | 690 | 676 | 675 | 680 | 683 |
| Wisconsin School of Business | 670 | 678 | 669 | 669 | 668 |
| Vanderbilt (Owen) | 680 | 688 | 691 | 690 | 688 |
| Ohio State (Fisher) | 676 | 670 | 671 | 664 | 661 |
| BYU (Marriott) | 680 | 680 | 672 | 674 | 667 |
| Penn State (Smeal) | 657 | 661 | 659 | 636 | 649 |
| Rochester (Simon) | 667 | 666 | 665 | 667 | 684 |
| Purdue (Krannert) | 633 | 632 | 636 | 635 | 617 |
| UC-Irvine (Merage) | 667 | 659 | 649 | 656 | 657 |
| Maryland (Smith) | 640 | NA | 657 | 658 | 662 |
| Boston (Questrom) | 681 | 680 | 682 | 682 | 670 |
| Pittsburgh (Katz) | 621 | 608 | 613 | 607 | 620 |
| Texas-Dallas (Jindal) | 690 | 670 | 670 | 673 | 672 |
| Texas A&M (Mays) | 643 | NA | 649 | 654 | 647 |
| Iowa (Tippie) | 676 | 676 | 677 | 670 | 669 |
| Boston College (Carroll) | 637 | 637 | 667 | NA | NA |
| SMU (Cox) | 653 | 661 | 662 | 656 | 650 |
| Temple (Fox) | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
| Rutgers | 683 | 673 | NA | NA | NA |
| Georgia (Terry) | 665 | 648 | 647 | 643 | 646 |
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Here is the list of Average GMAT scores of top Business Schools in Europe
Average GMAT Score of top European Business Schools |
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| European Business Schools | 2018 | 2017 | Change |
| INSEAD | 711 | 712 | -1 |
| London Business School | 707 | 708 | -1 |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 693 | 695 | -2 |
| HEC Paris | 691 | 691 | 0 |
| IESE Business School | 686 | 690 | -4 |
| Oxford (Saïd) | 681 | 692 | -11 |
| IMD | 680 | 676 | 4 |
| IE Business School | 680 | 680 | 0 |
| Mannheim | 678 | 677 | 1 |
| SDA Bocconi | 665 | 665 | 0 |
| ESADE | 665 | 665 | 0 |
| Warwick Business School | 654 | 661 | -7 |
| Manchester Business School | 650 | 655 | -5 |
| ESMT Berlin | 640 | 637 | 3 |
| Cranfield | 640 | 640 | 0 |
| St. Gallen | 634 | 674 | -40 |
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