More Colleges Accept GRE

Updated on: Monday, May 02, 2011

In an announcement on April 28, Educational Testing Service (ETS) said that the GRE® General Test is now accepted by more than 500 business schools worldwide for their MBA programmes. In the last four years, the number of business schools accepting the GRE General Test for MBA admissions has quadrupled.

“For business schools around the world, accepting GRE scores means expanding their pool of applicants and gaining more diversity in their programs,” said David Payne, vice president and chief operating officer of ETS’s Higher Education Division. “It makes good business sense for business schools to accept the GRE General Test, and we expect the numbers of those doing so to continue to grow at a swift pace.”

With the recent addition of the University of Missouri, Temple University, Case Western Reserve University and the University of Oklahoma, the GRE General Test is now accepted by 52 percent of the US News & World Report top 100 US programmes. International additions include INSEAD, Central European University Business School and Caucasus University.

Mel Horwitch, dean of Central European University Business School said, "At CEU, our MBA students are increasingly diverse in terms of background and professional goals. Consequently, accepting GRE scores enhances our ability to assess this quite varied pool of outstanding applicants. We are now better able to maintain excellence in our MBA programme."

The growing number of business schools worldwide accepting GRE scores comes at a time of increasing excitement for the introduction of the GRE® revised General Test. Launching August 2011, the GRE revised General Test represents the largest change to the test in the programme's 60-year history, and offers many benefits to test takers and institutions. A friendlier test-taking experience, new questions that emphasize real-world scenarios and new test design features are some of the changes test takers can expect. For institutions, the GRE revised General Test will provide an even better measure of the skills needed for success in today's demanding graduate and business school programs.

More Colleges Accept GRE

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