Top MBA - GMAT and GPA (Average and Median)

GMAT plays an important role in the MBA Admission process. It is important that you understand the GMAT Median and Mean score of your target schools. We at F1GMAT have researched and created the GMAT Score list for top 60 MBA programs.  If you notice the average GMAT scores of top 20 B-schools, they fall within the range of 700 to 730, with the highest GMAT median score at 730 for Stanford Graduate School of Business and Harvard Business School. An interesting trend seen here is that the average GMAT scores for European, Asian and Australian Business schools tends to be between 600 and 670.

Although the GPA scores for most top B-Schools are not officially published, our research shows that the majority of GPA scores of top 20 MBA programs range between 3.5 and 3.7. There  is no minimum GPA score, but if your score falls below 2.7, it becomes extremely difficult to get into a premier Business School. Of course, there are exceptions and the AdCom will look at your application holistically if you have an interesting work experience or extracurricular. One major reason why there is no unified method of mapping International GPA with American GPA is that evaluation criteria differs across universities, and AdCom has to compare the GPA of the candidate with other applicants from the same university.  Based on the aggregate GPA data from previous years, the AdCom has to map the GPA to the US Scale.