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Taking the GMAT is essential to getting to a top business school. A high score is an indicator of your academic readiness and assures the business school that you can get through the rigorous MBA program. So, how much should you score on the GMAT? Well, it depends on the average GMAT score of your target business school. The average GMAT score of the top US business schools is 696, ranging from 639 (Smeal) to 733 (Stanford GSB). If you are wondering what is a good GMAT score for your target business school, it is at least 20 points higher than the average GMAT score of the last incoming class of your target MBA program.

Average GMAT Scores

The total GMAT score ranges from 200 to 800, and the average total GMAT score is 574.51. Here is the average GMAT score according to GMAC based on test-takers between the period of January 2019 to December 2021:

GMAT section	Average GMAT score
Verbal	27.51
Quant	41.3
AWA	4.43
IR	4.65
Total	574.51

Learn more about your GMAT score and what do they mean in terms of percentile score in 2023.

Beware that the score presented above is the average score based on all test-takers between the period of January 2019 to December 2021. If you want to apply to top business schools, you would require to score above the selected business school average. A 700+ score can increase your chances of getting an admit to top business schools. Learn how to get a 700+ on the GMAT in just 5 steps. Watch this video:

Average GMAT Score

Top MBA programs in the US

Here is compiled information on the top business schools in the United States.

MBA program	2022 GMAT	2021 GMAT	2020 GMAT	2019 GMAT	2018 GMAT	2017 GMAT	2016 GMAT	2015 GMAT	2014 GMAT
The Wharton School	733	733	733	732	732	730	730	732	728
Harvard Business School	730	730	730	730	729	729	729	725	726
Stanford Graduate School of Business	737	738	738	734	732	737	737	733	732
Booth School of Business	729	732	732	730	731	730	726	726	724
Kellogg School of Management	729	729	727	730	732	732	728	724	713
MIT Sloan School of Management	730	730	730	727	728	722	724	716	713
Dartmouth Tuck	726	724	724	723	722	722	717	717	716
Columbia Business School	729	729	729	727	732	724	720	715	716
UC Berkeley (Haas)	729	729	726	725	726	725	717	715	717
Yale School of Management	725	726	730	720	724	727	725	721	719

Here’s a visualization of the average GMAT scores of the top 10 business schools

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MBA program	2022 GMAT	2021 GMAT	2020 GMAT	2019 GMAT	2018 GMAT	2017 GMAT	2016 GMAT	2015 GMAT	2014 GMAT
Michigan (Ross)	720	722	710	719	720	716	708	708	702
Duke (Fuqua)	718	713	700	700	704	702	695	696	690
Virginia (Darden)	720	715	703	713	718	713	712	706	706
Cornell (Johnson)	710	710	700	696	699	700	700	697	692
UCLA (Anderson)	711	714	706	719	719	716	715	713	715
NYU (Stern)	733	729	723	721	717	714	710	720	721
CMU (Tepper)	702	691	680	687	691	691	686	690	687
Texas-Austin (McCombs)	706	708	710	704	703	703	699	694	690
UNC (Kenan-Flagler)	706	696	694	697	702	701	700	701	697
Emory (Goizueta)	700	692	690	684	685	682	683	678	678
Indiana (Kelley)	685	685	652	666	677	678	670	668	668
Washington (Foster)	710	710	692	695	693	693	691	688	682
Georgetown (McDonough)	697	704	692	694	693	692	692	692	691
Notre Dame (Mendoza)	685		670	671	671	674	683	682	686
Rice (Jones)	702	705	689	710	706	711	690	676	676
USC (Marshall)	732	716	707	708	705	703	692	679	684
Georgia Tech (Scheller)	690		681	681	681	680	680	678	676
Washington (Olin)	670	684	687	695	693	694	688	695	699
Michigan State (Broad)	658	650	674	674	670	674	670	664	666
Arizona State (Carey)		694	685	680	682	682	682	672	673
Minnesota (Carlson)	690	690	690	690	690	676	675	680	683
Wisconsin School of Business	665		649	665	670	678	669	669	668
Vanderbilt (Owen)	690	690	680	680	680	688	691	690	688
Ohio State (Fisher)	673		666	680	676	670	671	664	661
BYU (Marriott)		678	669	675	680	680	672	674	667
Penn State (Smeal)		666	639	658	657	661	659	636	649
Rochester (Simon)			670	667	667	666	665	667	684

Did you know that Indian students account for almost 30% of all the MBA Applicants, yet only 9% of the class at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, or other top business schools comprises Indian nationals? So, how do you increase your chances of getting an admit to top business schools? After analyzing MBA admissions success stories of numerous such students, we have come up with 5 best practices for Indian applicants to get into M7 schools:

Top Business Schools in Europe

The average score for the top 16 business schools in Europe ranges between 638 and 709. If you are targeting business schools in Europe then here is a compiled information:

European MBA programs	2019 GMAT	2018 GMAT	Change
INSEAD	709	711	-2
London Business School	708	707	+1
Cambridge (Judge)	691	693	-2
HEC Paris	690	691	-1
IESE Business School	681	686	-5
Oxford (Saïd)	690	681	+9
IMD	680	680	4
IE Business School	685	680	+5
Mannheim	678	678	0
SDA Bocconi	665	665	0
ESADE	665	665	0
Warwick Business School	660	654	+6
Manchester Business School	650	650	0
ESMT Berlin	638	640	-2
Cranfield	660	640	+20
St. Gallen	674	634	+40

*The average GMAT scores for the business schools in Europe are taken for the years 2018 and 2019, while those for the US business schools have taken from 2014-2022.

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