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GMAT Geographic Trend Report 2021 Excel

January 2022

The GMAT Geographic Trend Report: Testing Year 2021 presents mobility trends in the graduate management education student pipeline based on the last five testing years of GMAT exam data.

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Overview

This Excel data file provides school professionals at GMAT-accepting institutions with filterable data tables to explore international examinee and score-sending trends to inform their global recruitment strategies. A table of contents tab in the file describes the data included in detail.

Quick Facts

  • Global business school candidates sat for 156,453 GMAT exams in TY2021, a 39.2 percent decrease from 250,761 GMAT exams in TY2017. A significant portion of the drop in TY2021 was due to the impact of COVID-19 on test center availability, candidate mobility, and uncertainty of the status of graduate programs.
  • GMAT examinees sent 301,107 score reports to programs around the world in TY2021.
  • Women represented 44 percent of global exams taken in TY2021, down slightly from 45 percent in TY2017.
  • Candidates younger than 25 represented 49 percent of global exams taken in TY2021, down from 50 percent in TY2017.
  • The proportion of exams with a total score of 600 or greater increased by 10 percent over a five-year period.