How Important Is Your GMAT Score?

The following is a list of top business schools as reported in The Princeton Review Best 237 Business Schools. This list represents some of the most difficult to get accepted to, those with the best academic experience, and those that are best for women and minorities. As you can see, high GMAT scores matter at many of these schools.

Institution	Business School	Avg. GMAT	Avg. Age	Avg. GPA
Arizona State University	W. P. Carey School of Business	649	28	3.4
Babson College	F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business	630	29	3.2
Baylor University	Hankamer School of Business	595	27	3.1
Boston University	School of Management	655	26	3.29
Brigham Young University	Marriott School of Management	653	28	3.53
Carnegie Mellon	Tepper School of Business	691	28	3.3
Case Western Reserve University	Weatherhead School of Management	615	27	3.16
Columbia University	Columbia Business School	709	28	3.4
Cornell University	Johnson Graduate School of Management	673	27	3.26
Dartmouth College	Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth	699	29	3.3
Duke University	The Fuqua School of Business	705	29	3.4
Emory University	Goizueta Business School	680	28	3.4
Georgetown University	The McDonough School of Business	662	28	3.3
Georgia Institute of Technology	Georgia Tech College of Management	655	27	3.43
Harvard University	Harvard Business School	708	27	3.6
Indiana University - Bloomington	Kelley School of Business	644	28	3.3
Loyola University Chicago	Graduate School of Business	540	28	3.2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	MIT Sloan School of Management	710	28	3.5
Michigan State University	The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management	637	28	3.38
New York University	Leonard N. Stern School of Business	700	27	3.4
Northwestern University	Kellogg School of Management	700	28	3.4
Purdue University	Krannert School of Management	667	28	3.3
Rice University	Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management	625	28	3.2
Southern Methodist University	Cox School of Business	661	28	3.26
Stanford University	Stanford Graduate School of Business	711	NR	3.5
The Ohio State University	Max M. Fisher College of Business	664	27	3.4
The University of Chicago	Graduate School of Business	695	28	3.4
The University of Texas at Austin	McCombs School of Business	670	28	3.38
Thunderbird	Thunderbird, the Garvin School of Int’l. Mgmt.	600	28	3.3
Tulane University	Freeman School of Business	655	27	3.35
University of California at Berkeley (MFE)	Haas School of Business	699	29	3.5
University of California, Los Angeles	UCLA Anderson School of Management	710	28	3.6
University of Colorado at Boulder	Leeds School of Business	648	28	3.31
University of Georgia	Terry College of Business, Graduate School of Business Administration	663	27	3.33
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	College of Business	649	27	3.4
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor	Stephen M. Ross School of Business	690	28	3.3
University of Minnesota	Carlson School of Management	655	29	3.25
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	Kenan-Flagler Business School	652	28	3.28
University of Pennsylvania	The Wharton School Graduate Division	714	29	3.5
University of Rochester	William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration	664	27	3.4
University of Southern California	Marshall School of Business	680	27	3.3
University of Virginia	UVA-Darden Graduate School of Business Admin.	680	28	3.3
University of Washington	University of Washington Business School	677	29	3.45
University of Western Ontario	Richard Ivey School of Business	647	30	NR
Vanderbilt University	Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management	622	29	3.2
Wake Forest University-Full-time MBA Program	Babcock Graduate School of Management	630	28	3.2
Washington University in St. Louis	John M. Olin School of Business	650	28	3.19
Yale University	Yale School of Management	696	28	3.5

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