Average GMAT scores for top MBA schools in USA

MBA programmes in the US can be ranked by a number of factors. These factors include average starting salary after graduation, acceptance rate, academic reputation, and student satisfaction to sort schools and create rankings.

If you have applied for a business school in the US and wondering about your chances at the top MBA programmes? The first check is to look into the average GMAT scores of the top schools and see how close you are.

For admissions to any programmes, the admissions officers look at the whole application, not just your GMAT score. However, if your GMAT score is not anywhere close to a school's average GMAT, then the odds are against you.

Below is the list of 30 business schools of America with the average GMAT scores. Also, we provide you the rankings given to these schools as per the U.S. News Ranking.

Name of the Business School	Average GMAT Score	U.S. News Ranking
Stanford University	730	Rank 1
Harvard University	724	Rank 1
University of Chicago (Booth)	719	Rank 6
New York University (Stern)	719	Rank 10
Yale University	719	Rank 13
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	718	Rank 3
Tuck School of Business	718	Rank 9
Columbia University	716	Rank 8
University of California - Berkeley	715	Rank 7
Northwestern University (Kellogg)	712	Rank 4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan)	710	Rank 4
University of California-Los Angeles (Anderson)	704	Rank 14
Ross School of Business	703	Rank 14
University of Virginia Darden School of Business	701	Rank 12
Olin Business School, Washington University	696	Rank 21
Owen Graduate School of Management	695	Rank 30
McCombs School of Business, University of Texas	692	Rank 17
The University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business	692	Rank 27
Johnson Graduate School of Management - Cornell University	691	Rank 16
University of California, Davis	690	Rank 40
Duke University's Fuqua School of Business	689	Rank 11
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School	689	Rank 20
USC Marshall School of Business	687	Rank 26
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University	686	Rank 19
McDonough School of Business - Georgetown University	686	Rank 25
Carlson School of Management - University of Minnesota	686	Rank 23
Boston University	684	Rank 40
Emory University Goizueta Business School	681	Rank 18
University of Wisconsin-Madison	680	Rank 34
University of Florida: Hough Graduate School of Business	678	Rank 36