GMAT Geographic Trend Report 2024 PDF (Abstract)

GMAT Geographic Trend Report 2024 PDF

October 2024

Overview

The GMAT Geographic Trend Report: Testing Year 2024 presents mobility trends in the graduate management education student pipeline based on the last five testing years of GMAT exam data.

This PDF report shares overall key findings, in addition to trends by region, including examinee demographics and score sending destinations and program types by citizenship; region as a study destination; and profiles of candidates from the top countries in each region.

Quick Facts

  • Global business school candidates sat for 115,286 GMAT exams in TY2024, a 33.4 percent decrease from 173,176 GMAT exams in TY2020. A significant portion of the drop from TY2020 to TY2022 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 189,671 score reports to programs around the world in TY2024.
  • Women represented 42 percent of global exams taken in TY2024, down slightly from 46 percent in TY2020.
  • Candidates younger than 25 represented 47 percent of global exams taken in TY2024, down from 52 percent in TY2020.
  • In TY2024, there were over 20K GMAT test takers with percentiles higher than 89% and 40K examinees with percentiles in the range of 55%-89%.

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