A stellar score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, does not guarantee admission to a prestigious business school, given that it's just one component of an MBA application.

Should business schools make their full-time MBA programs test-optional? When the dean of the Darden School of Business was a senior in high school, he did what everyone who wanted to go to college ...

According to data for our 2026 online MBA ranking, fewer programs require GMAT or GRE scores for admission, and fewer students are submitting them. Five years after the pandemic disrupted MBA ...

Many MBA applicants are at a crossroads when deciding between the GMAT and the GRE. Business schools widely accept both, but which one do you need to take? As you probably already know, the answer is ...

An MBA typically includes courses in accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behavior, economics, management and ...

Doing well on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) helps you get into the best business schools—but surprisingly, the GMAT does not identify those individuals who will be the most successful ...

Prospective international graduate students don't need to let standardized tests deter them from U.S. colleges.

Test scores are one of the many factors that admissions officers at selective MBA programs consider when deciding which candidates to accept. Prestigious graduate business schools have multifaceted ...

The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or ...