B-Schools Increasingly Accept GRE Scores
More business schools are accepting GRE scores as an alternative to the GMAT, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, has long been the standard test required of business school applicants. But b-schools are looking to attract students who might have been considering other types of graduate programs, such as in the social sciences. The Graduate Record Examination, or GRE, is typically required by graduate programs in social sciences and humanities. It has a greater focus on vocabulary and uses more straightforward quantitative skills.
The movement began in 2006 with Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and now includes more than 600 business schools worldwide, including Harvard and Yale. More than 100 b-schools this year have said they will accept applications with GRE scores.
