GMAT and GRE scores by school:
published class profiles

What do 20 schools publish, program by program?

The table starts with HEC Paris and ESSEC, then covers international schools, with U.S. schools last. This is an editorial order; it says nothing about a school’s requirements or ranking. A school appears on multiple rows when it publishes multiple figures, or on one row when it publishes none.

The “Published figure” column includes only what the school itself reports, with its scope. An average the school says to target is still an average, never a minimum. “Not published” means no figure appears on the pages reviewed; it says nothing about the test’s weight in the application. When a school does not specify the GMAT edition, the “Scale” column says “edition not specified”; we do not infer it from the score size or convert between scales.

Older brochures are not used to describe a current class. When an official page still shows an earlier cohort, such as LSE’s 2022/23 MSc Marketing class, the table keeps that period; the figure remains historical.

What does a class profile describe, and what does it leave out?

A class profile describes students in a given year after admissions decisions have been made: their number, age, experience, and, at some schools, a summary of their test scores. It may cover only part of the class. Harvard, for example, separates students who submitted GMAT scores (34% of the class), GMAT 10th Edition scores (28%), and GRE scores (44%), noting that some submitted more than one test. Each figure applies to its own group, not the entire class.

It does not describe what applicants need to apply, how much the test matters in an application, or what happened to applicants with similar scores who were not admitted. A profile tells you who enrolled, not what determined the outcome. Profiles also vary by school and program: those cited here are for the Class of 2027 for the Harvard, Stanford, Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Berkeley Haas, Yale, and Wharton MBAs; the Class of 2028 for the MIT Sloan MBA and Wharton Executive MBA; and the class that entered in 2025 for Columbia.

The terms schools use refer to different things. The table preserves each school’s wording; here is what those terms mean.

• Average: the sum of scores divided by the number of scores. A few very high or very low scores can shift it (Stanford MBA, Columbia, Chicago Booth, Wharton, Kellogg, Cambridge, Esade, LBS, HEC).
• Median: at least half of the scores are at or below this value, and at least half are at or above it. Multiple students can have the median score (Harvard, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Stanford MSx, Berkeley Haas, Yale, and LSE MSc Marketing).
• Middle 80%: a range describing the center of the distribution (Harvard, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Berkeley Haas, Yale, and Stanford MSx). Ties at the endpoints do not establish that exactly 10% of scores fall strictly below or above them. Stanford MBA and Columbia show a range without saying what it covers. Kellogg’s charts are labeled “Middle 80% range” and describe the middle 80%; their numeric endpoints are not reproduced here.
• Recommendation or expectation: what the school advises applicants to aim for, using wording such as “typically” or “recommended” (INSEAD, IE, LSE, and LBS for the MiM). Several of these schools also state that there is no minimum.
• Threshold: a floor appears only for Bocconi’s MSc programs (500 or 485 to be considered), the IESE Executive MBA, the ESSEC Global MBA (a “preferred” minimum, with possible exceptions), and, “typically,” the London Business School MBA.

Why can’t figures from the old and new scales be combined?

Two GMAT versions appear on schools’ pages: the old one, scored from 200 to 800, which schools call “10th Edition,” “Exam,” “Classic,” or “previous format,” and the current one, scored from 205 to 805, called “Focus.” The same number does not represent the same level on both scales. Several schools report their own figures for both versions: HEC lists 635 and 690 for its MBA, Cambridge about 635 and about 710, Esade about 615 and about 660, and IESE a range of 545–715 versus 580–750. Stanford, Columbia, Chicago Booth, and Kellogg instead show one row per version: each describes the students who submitted that version, not the same group expressed twice.

The gap between the two versions of a given figure is not constant: it ranges from 5 to 75 points depending on the school and measure (5 points for the IESE Executive MBA thresholds, 75 for Cambridge averages). No simple conversion formula captures it. To place an old score on the current scale, use GMAC’s official concordance table; the article “A Good GMAT Score: Read Your Percentile, Not a Cutoff” explains how to read it.

Several schools do not say which version they mean: London Business School; Wharton for its Executive MBA; Cambridge for its 690 average; LSE for its MSc Marketing; and Berkeley Haas and Yale for their “GMAT” rows (Berkeley Haas and Yale show a separate “GMAT Focus” row). The table labels these rows “edition not specified.” HBS explicitly distinguishes “GMAT” from “GMAT 10th Edition”; GMAC defines their scales as 205–805 and 200–800, respectively. Do not guess the edition from the size of the number: a 690 could come from either.

GRE Verbal Reasoning and Quantitative Reasoning are each scored from 130 to 170. The “75%” or “80%” figures printed by Cambridge and INSEAD are therefore not scores out of 170. The table preserves the schools’ wording and does not infer a score from it.

How should you read a school’s figure before comparing it with your score?

Before comparing a figure with your result, run through the same checks, one table row at a time.

• The program: an MBA, Master in Management, MSc, or Executive MBA at the same school each has its own profile and rules.
• The test: a GMAT figure does not apply to the GRE, or vice versa; some schools publish figures for only one test.
• The edition: current or old GMAT? If the school does not say, do not infer it.
• What the figure represents: an average, median, range, recommendation, or minimum should not be read in the same way.
• The class and date: an old class profile or one without a year tells you nothing about the application cycle you are targeting.
• The school’s page: if it is silent or unclear, ask the admissions office, the only source that can answer for your application.

Where can you find each school’s rules?

Each school’s admissions page is the authoritative source: it explains which tests are accepted for which program, which deadlines apply, and what the school publishes. Links to the pages consulted for this article appear at the end. A figure may change when a new class profile is published, so check the school’s page again before applying.

The article “GMAT or GRE: Choose Based on Your Programs and the Format” walks through how to choose between the GMAT and GRE; to put your own result in context, use your percentile and the rules for your target program.