What is a good GMAT score? Average GMAT score by School

Published by Merchant GMAT on 11/13/20 3:26 PM

Find out how your GMAT score is considered by your school of choice.

What is a good GMAT score? For many it is dependent on the target school they want to go after.

Some people target the best Business Schools in the world such as Harvard, where over the last two years the average GMAT score has been 730. Others may have a particular location in mind, for example recently we spoke to a student who wanted to go to Durham University in the UK, where the average score over the last two years has been 637.5.

Your choice of school will dictate what GMAT score you need to aim for. To help you figure this out we decided to create this GMAT score table of the top Universities and their average GMAT scores for the last two full years, 2019 and 2018.

Enjoy!

School	Average GMAT Score (2018)	Average GMAT Score (2019)	Average across both years
Stanford Graduate School of Business	732	734	733
University of Pennsylvania: Wharton	732	732	732
Northwestern University: Kellogg	732	730	731
Harvard Business School	730	730	730
University of Chicago: Booth	730	730	730
MIT: Sloan	728	727	727.5
University of California at Berkeley: Haas	726	725	725.5
Dartmouth College: Tuck	722	723	722.5
Yale School of Management	721	721	721
Columbia Business School	713	727	720
University of Michigan: Ross	720	719	719.5
New York University: Stern	717	720	718.5
UCLA Anderson School of Management	715	719	717
Insead	712	711	711.5
University of Virginia: Darden	710	713	711.5
Rice University: Jones	706	711	708.5
Indian School of Business	707	709	708
University of Texas at Austin: McCombs	710	704	707
Duke University: Fuqua	704	705	704.5
London Business School	705	701	703
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad	700	702	701
Cornell University: Johnson	700	697	698.5
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore	710	683	696.5
Georgetown University: McDonough	692	694	693
University of Cambridge: Judge	693	691	692
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta	693	690	691.5
Nanyang Business School, NTU Singapore	690	690	690
HEC Paris	689	690	689.5
China Europe International Business School	688	686	687
Emory University: Goizueta	690	684	687
Carnegie Mellon: Tepper	685	687	686
University of Oxford: Saïd	681	690	685.5
University of Florida: Warrington	685	685	685
IMD Business School	676	679	677.5
IE Business School	677	675	676
University of Southern California: Marshall	648	703	675.5
Iese Business School	680	670	675
HKUST Business School	640	710	675
Indiana University: Kelley	670	678	674
HKU Business School	664	680	672
National University of Singapore Business School	668	670	669
University of Washington: Foster	638	696	667
Singapore Management University: Lee Kong Chian	669	660	664.5
Sungkyunkwan University GSB	650	676	663
Esade Business School	665	660	662.5
University of California at Irvine: Merage	670	655	662.5
Warwick Business School	661	660	660.5
SDA Bocconi School of Management	665	650	657.5
Fudan University School of Management	650	650	650
Imperial College Business School	640	642	641
Durham University Business School	675	600	637.5

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References:

Average GMAT Scores At The Top 20 European Business Schools: https://poetsandquants.com/2018/10/31/average-gmat-scores-at-the-top-20-european-business-schools/

Average GMAT Scores At The Top 50 B-Schools: https://poetsandquants.com/2020/01/15/average-gmat-scores-at-the-top-50-b-schools-2/