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What GMAT score do I need for my dream school?
Median GMAT scores for 20+ top MBA programs, on both the legacy 200–800 and the new Focus 205–805 scales, with a competitive band that maps to roughly the 80th percentile of admitted applicants.
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Harvard Business School
Case-method MBA. Median has held above 730 for the last decade.
Focus median
Approximate, 205-805 scale
Old GMAT median
Approximate, 200-800 scale
Competitive Focus
~80th percentile of admits
Competitive old GMAT
~80th percentile of admits
Numbers are from school-published class profiles. Medians shift year to year; treat the competitive band as the score you can submit without having to over-explain the rest of your application.
All 23 schools
Click any row to view its detail card above. Sorted by approximate Focus median, descending.
| School | Focus median | Old median |
|---|---|---|
| Harvard Business SchoolBoston, MA | 685 | 740 |
| Stanford Graduate School of BusinessStanford, CA | 685 | 740 |
| Wharton School (UPenn)Philadelphia, PA | 685 | 740 |
| Chicago BoothChicago, IL | 675 | 730 |
| Kellogg School (Northwestern)Evanston, IL | 675 | 730 |
| MIT SloanCambridge, MA | 675 | 730 |
| Columbia Business SchoolNew York, NY | 675 | 730 |
| Tuck (Dartmouth)Hanover, NH | 675 | 730 |
| Stern (NYU)New York, NY | 675 | 730 |
| Berkeley HaasBerkeley, CA | 675 | 730 |
| Yale School of ManagementNew Haven, CT | 665 | 720 |
| UCLA AndersonLos Angeles, CA | 665 | 720 |
| Ross (Michigan)Ann Arbor, MI | 665 | 720 |
| Darden (UVA)Charlottesville, VA | 665 | 720 |
| Fuqua (Duke)Durham, NC | 665 | 720 |
| Indian School of BusinessHyderabad, India | 665 | 720 |
| INSEADFontainebleau, France | 655 | 710 |
| London Business SchoolLondon, UK | 655 | 710 |
| IESE Business SchoolBarcelona, Spain | 635 | 690 |
| Saïd (Oxford)Oxford, UK | 635 | 690 |
| CEIBSShanghai, China | 635 | 690 |
| IMDLausanne, Switzerland | 625 | 680 |
| NUS Business SchoolSingapore | 615 | 670 |
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