6/7/2023 0 Comments Average gre scoresDanielle Richie, senior associate director of MBA admissions and student recruitment for Kenan-Flagler, tells P&Q that the B-school’s test waiver policy is the main culprit. One of the biggest decliners was UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, which had reported among the top GRE submission rates among new entrants in 2019, but which lost 26 points last year to fall to just 22%. In all, seven schools lost double digits. Ten of the bottom 15 ranked schools lost GRE volume (see table below), including UC-Irvine Merage School of Business, which lost 13 points to fall to just 7%, lowest total of any school. However, 18 schools lost GRE volume from 2019 the highest ranking was Carnegie Mellon University Tepper School of Business, which dropped 8 points to fall to just 11%, second-lowest among all 52 schools. Other big gainers (see table above) were Ohio State’s Fisher College of Business (+18 to 53%) and Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business (+18 to 39%, highest in the top 10). Louis’ Olin Business School, which gained 22 points from 2019 to 71% last year. Eight of those 26 schools saw double-digit increases, led by the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business, which gained 24 percentage points to 58%, followed by the school with the highest overall GRE admit submission rate: Washington University in St. In all, 26 of the top 52 schools in the 2021 Poets&Quants ranking saw year-over-year increases in the percentage of new entrants who submitted GRE scores, including all seven of the top 10 schools for which data is publicly known, and 16 of the top 25. See more about GRE scores at the top 50 schools on page 2.īut much more interestingly, we’ve learned that the percentage of admits who submitted GRE scores (whether alone or in addition to a GMAT score) continues to go up at most schools - with some dramatic exceptions.Īfter a wildly disruptive year in the world of testing, the GRE continued to gain on the GMAT in terms of applicant preference - for the most part. In terms of scores, the usual suspects remain at the top: Stanford Graduate School of Business again has the top overall GRE average, followed by Yale School of Management in second place and two schools tied for third-best: Harvard Business School and Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. We now have answers - and more questions. What effect did the launch of the online GRE have on test score averages? We know how the advent of virtual testing options impacted GMAT scores at the top 50 schools - it contributed to a dramatic drop-off, nearly across the board. It wasn’t just waivers that muddy the picture. business schools to waive testing requirements altogether, a policy most kept through the 2020-2021 cycle - affect the GRE’s march to dominance? How did the pandemic - which spurred dozens of leading U.S. The Graduate Record Exam has been creeping up on the Graduate Management Admission Test for years, gaining enough market share by 2019 that the possibility could not be ignored that it might one day supplant the GMAT as the primary admissions test for graduate business education. Stanford was also one of just two schools to report a 5 average for the writing portion of the GRE. One school rules the Graduate Record Exam roost year after year: Stanford Graduate School of Business, which once again in 2020 enrolled MBA students who submitted the highest scores in both the Quant and Verbal sections of the test.
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