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What is a good GMAT score?

What is a good GMAT score? 645 or more is competitive for top MBA programmes: it is the 86th percentile and at or above the low end of every listed school's middle 80%.

From 205 to 805. Totals end in 5. A practice exam total works too.

Is it a good GMAT score?

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  • Below average205+
  • Average545+
  • Good605+
  • Competitive645+
  • Excellent695+

Your result

Each school's own current-scale figure for its latest class
SchoolGMATYou
Columbia Business School690 average
Stanford Graduate School of Business689 average
Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management687 average
Harvard Business School685 median
New York University Stern School of Business682 average
University of Michigan Ross School of Business681 average
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania676 average
University of Chicago Booth School of Business675 median
MIT Sloan School of Management675 median
Yale School of Management675 median
Indian School of Business675 median
Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business671 average
University of Virginia Darden School of Business665 median
UCLA Anderson School of Management660 average
Vanderbilt University Owen Graduate School of Management660 average
Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business655 median
University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business655 median
University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School652 average
Emory University Goizueta Business School648 average
Indiana University Kelley School of Business618 average

Questions people ask

What is a good GMAT score?

645 or more is competitive for top MBA programmes: it is the 86th percentile and at or above the low end of every listed school's middle 80%. 695 or more beats every listed school's median or average.

What is the average GMAT score?

565 is the 50th percentile in GMAC's current table, the middle of all test takers.

Is 645 a good GMAT score?

Yes. A 645 is the 86th percentile and matches about 700 on the old 200 to 800 scale.

Is 605 a good GMAT score?

It is good: the 69th percentile, about 650 on the old scale. All 20 leading programmes we list report a higher median or average (618 to 690).

What GMAT score do I need for Harvard?

Harvard reports a median of 685 for its Class of 2027, with a middle 80% of 645 to 735.

How we work this out

What it does

Enter your GMAT total for a straight answer, from GMAC's tables and top schools' own class figures.

Any GMAT Exam total from 205 to 805, compared with all test takers and with 20 leading full-time MBA programmes that print a current-scale median or average.

Method

  1. Excellent is 695 or more: above every listed school's median or average (the highest is Columbia's 690).
  2. Competitive is 645 to 685: at or above the low end of every school's printed middle 80% (the highest low end is 645, at Harvard, MIT Sloan and NYU Stern).
  3. Good is 605 to 635, better than about 7 in 10 test takers (605 is the 69th percentile).
  4. Average is 545 to 595, around the middle of test takers (565 is the 50th percentile). Below average is under 545.
  5. Your percentile is GMAC's rank for your exact total. The old-scale figure is the middle of GMAC's August 2026 concordance range.

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