GMAT® Score:
The GMAT® score is for a total of 800. The score is based on a combination of the Quantitative and Verbal sections and will be in a range of 200-800. The Verbal and Quantitative scaled scores range from 0 to 60. Scores below 9 and above 44 for the Verbal section or below 7 and above 50 for the Quantitative section are rare. Both scores are on a fixed scale and can be compared across all GMAT® test administrations. Please note that, if you do not finish in the allotted time, you will still receive scores as long as you have worked on every section. However, your scores will be calculated based upon the number of questions answered, and your score will decrease significantly with each unanswered question. (Source: gmac.org)

Better the score, better the schools. This is the tagline that is  promoted by many training institutes. But what is  a good GMAT score ? Actually, it depends on type of the B schools you are applying for.

Top 25 Business Schools & their Average GMAT Score

Harvard University 708
Stanford University 713
U-PENN (Wharton) 713
MIT (Sloan) 710
Northwestern (Kellogg) 703
Columbia University (NY) 709
University of Chicago 690
Berkeley (Haas) 700
Dartmouth College (Tuck) 696
University of Michigan 692
Duke University (Fuqua) 703
Michigan 672
University of California—Los Angeles (Anderson) 701
University of Virginia (Darden) 678
Cornell University (Johnson) 678
New York University (Stern) 700
Yale University 703
Carnegie Mellon University 680
University of Southern California (Marshall) 688
Emory University (Goizueta) 676

By:   Sunita Baruah.

Business Week 2009 Ranking for MBA based on Return on Investment

Money saved is money earned. Economical meltdown brings more economical sense in MBA applicant to work on Return on Investment(ROI). For your convenient we giving “Business Week Ranking for MBA based on Return on Investment”.

1. IE Business School
2. Cranfield School of Management
3. Manchester Business School
4. Cambridge (Judge)
5. Michigan State (Broad)
6. Oxford (Said)
7. Iowa (Tippie)
8. HEC Paris
9. Illinois-Urbana Champaign
10. IESE
11. INSEAD
12. Rochester (Simon)
13. Brigham Young (Marriott)
14. IMD
15. Indiana (Kelley)
16. Connecticut
17. Ohio State (Fisher)
18. Thunderbird
19. Notre Dame (Mendoza)
20. Int’l McGill (Desautels)
21. Purdue (Krannert)
22. Arizona State (Carey)
23. Georgia Tech
24. Boston University
25. Minnesota (Carlson)
26. Southern Methodist (Cox)
27. Dartmouth (Tuck)
28. London Business School
29. Babson (Olin)
30. Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
31. Washington University (Olin)
32. Western Ontario (Ivey)
33. Maryland (Smith)
34. U. of Washington (Foster)
35. Yale
36. Queen’s
37. Stanford
38. Georgetown (McDonough)
39. ESADE
40. George Washington
41. Michigan (Ross)
42. UC-Irvine (Merage)
43. Toronto (Rotman)
44. MIT (Sloan)
45. Emory (Goizueta)
46. Int’l York (Schulich)
47. USC (Marshall)
48. North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
49. Vanderbilt (Owen)
50. Harvard
51. Virginia (Darden)
52. Duke (Fuqua)
53. UCLA (Anderson)
54. Northwestern (Kellogg)
55. Pennsylvania (Wharton)
56. Texas-Austin (McCombs)
57. Columbia
58. UC-Berkeley (Haas)
59. Cornell (Johnson)
60. NYU (Stern)
61. Chicago (Booth)