While the five-year trend in the average GMAT scores of MBA program enrollees shows steady improvement for most schools, the last two years have seen the most elite schools reach what might be a plateau, with three of the top six schools reporting identical or slightly lower average GMATs from 2016 to 2017.
| P&Q Rank & School | 2017 GMAT | 2016 GMAT | 2015 GMAT | 2014 GMAT | 2013 GMAT | 5-Year Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Penn (Wharton) | 730 | 730 | 732 | 728 | 725 | +5 |
| 2. Harvard Business School | 729 | 729 | 725 | 726 | 727 | +2 |
| 3. Stanford GSB | 737 | 737 | 733 | 732 | 732 | +5 |
| 4. Chicago (Booth) | 730 | 726 | 726 | 724 | 723 | +7 |
| 5. Northwestern (Kellogg) | 732 | 728 | 724 | 713 | 713 | +19 |
| 6. MIT (Sloan) | 722 | 724 | 716 | 713 | 713 | +9 |
| 7. Dartmouth (Tuck) | 722 | 717 | 717 | 716 | 718 | +4 |
| 8. Columbia | 724 | 720 | 715 | 716 | 716 | +8 |
| 9. UC-Berkeley (Haas) | 725 | 717 | 715 | 717 | 714 | +11 |
| 10. Yale SOM | 727 | 725 | 721 | 719 | 714 | +13 |
| 11. Michigan (Ross) | 716 | 708 | 708 | 702 | 704 | +12 |
| 12. Duke (Fuqua) | 702 | 695 | 696 | 690 | 694 | +8 |
| 13. Virginia (Darden) | 713 | 712 | 706 | 706 | 706 | +7 |
| 14. Cornell (Johnson) | 700 | 700 | 697 | 692 | 691 | +9 |
| 15. UCLA (Anderson) | 716 | 715 | 713 | 715 | 706 | +10 |
| 16. NYU (Stern) | 714 | 710 | 720 | 721 | 721 | -7 |
| 17. CMU (Tepper) | 691 | 686 | 690 | 687 | 691 | — |
| 18. Texas-Austin (McCombs) | 703 | 699 | 694 | 690 | 690 | +13 |
| 18. UNC (Kenan-Flagler) | 701 | 700 | 701 | 697 | 683 | +18 |
| 20. Emory (Goizueta) | 682 | 683 | 678 | 678 | 681 | +1 |
| 21. Indiana (Kelley) | 678 | 670 | 668 | 668 | 664 | +14 |
| 22. Washington (Foster) | 693 | 691 | 688 | 682 | 670 | +23 |
| 23. Georgetown (McDonough) | 692 | 692 | 692 | 691 | 688 | +4 |
| 24. Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 674 | 683 | 682 | 686 | 690 | -16 |
| 25. Rice (Jones) | 711 | 690 | 676 | 676 | 676 | +35 |
