The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) is a computer adaptive test (CAT) which is taken to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, such as an MBA.

The maximum scaled score for the test is 800: verbal and quantitative sections are each worth 800 points. The final score is an average of these two scores.

GMAT scores are valid for five years, although some business schools might insist on a recent score.

GMAT scores for business schools in the world:

The average score for GMAT test takers over the last few years is somewhere in the high 500.

Texas Tech (Rawls) 559
Alabama (Manderson) 659
Oklahoma (Price) 628
Cincinnati (Lindner) 622
Babson (Olin) 630
Wake Forest 652
Kansas 594
Iowa State 636
Washington (Foster) 682
North Carolina State (Jenkins) 639
Michigan State (Broad) 655
San Diego State 607
Buffalo-SUNY 614
UCLA (Anderson) 715
Michigan State (Broad) 666
Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 659
Vanderbilt (Owen) 688
Iowa (Tippie) 669
North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) 697
Pennsylvania (Wharton) 728
Chicago (Booth) 724
Virginia (Darden) 706
Georgetown (McDonough) 691
Rochester (Simon) 684