What GMAT score do I have to get?
Many students ask what score they need to achieve in order to be competitive for the schools of their choice. Below are the fifty schools that require the highest GMAT scores in the US. Usually, a higher median score is linked to a higher business school ranking. However, as you will see, this is not always the case.
The information for European and other non-US schools can be found here: Average gmat score of mba students in non-US mba programs
Also, if you want to know what the average age or work experience of the MBA applicants who are applying to your desired schools you can click on the links below
http://www.vinciaprep.com/en/blog/average-age-mba-applicants-us
http://www.vinciaprep.com/en/blog/average-work-experience-mba-applicants
You may also want to consider taking the GRE instead of the GMAT. MBAs around the world started accepting the GRE in 2011 (over 200 MBA programs in the US including top schools like Stanford are now accepting it) and taking the GRE has some advantages. However, in 2020 the majority of applicants still took the GMAT (approximately 75%).
Find out the differences and whether you might want to take the GRE instead of the GMAT here,
http://www.vinciaprep.com/en/blog/differences-between-gmat-and-new-gre
Rank Name Average Score
1 Chicago 730
2 Standford 734
3 Northwestern (Kellogg) 724
4 Harvard 730
5 Pennsylvania (Wharton) 732
6 Dartmouth (Tuck) 723
7 Columbia, New York, NY 727
8 MIT (Sloan) 716
9 Cornell (Johnson) 700
10 Michigan (Ross) 719
11 UC Berkley (Hass) 725
12 Yale 720
13 Virginia (Darden) 713
14 Duke (Fuqua) 710
15 UNC (Kenan-Flagler) 697
16 UCLA (Anderson) 719
17 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 690
18 Texas-Austin (McCombs) 704
19 Indiana (Kelley) 666
20 NYU (Stern) 720
21 USC (Marshall) 708
22 Emory (Goizueta) 680
23 Washington (Foster) 710
24 Brigham Young (Marriott) 675
25 Notre Dame (Mendoza) 671
26 Rice (Jones) 706
27 Michigan State (Broad) 674
28 Georgia Tech 681
29 Washington U-St.Louis (Olin) 688
30 Vanderbilt (Owen) 680
31 Georgetown (McDonough) 693
32 Minnesota (Carlson) 690
33 Texas A&M (Mays) 640
34 Penn State 657
35 Wisconsin (Madison) 665
36 Utah (Eccles) 650
37 Pittsburgh (Katz) 640
38 Arizona State (Carey) 680
39 Boston (Questrom) 690
40 Purdue (Krannert) 634
41 Ohio State (Fisher) 680
42 Rochester (Simon) 655
43 UC Irvine 673
44 William & Mary (Mason) 620
45 SMU (Cox) 650
46 Texas Dallas (Jindal) 670
47 UC Irvine 673
48 Georgie (Terry) 680
49 Buffalo 620
50 Alabama (Manderson) 650
This information was provided by Forbes magazine in 2019.
