GRE Exam Ranking

Ranking

The GRE cut-off score varies significantly based on the programme and school you are applying to. While some institutions may have a specified minimum GRE score requirement others use a more holistic approach to evaluate applicants. The average score for all GRE test takers is 150 for Verbal and 152 for Math. Although there are few exceptions, the majority of graduate programmes in the United States and many programmes in other countries require the GRE for admission.

Some of the top universities that accept GRE scores are:

• Aegis School of Business, India
• Harvard University
• Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• Stanford University
• York University – Schulich
• California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
• University of Oxford
• Fudan University International MBA, China
• Instituto de Empresa (IE), Spain
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
• University of Cambridge
• University of Toronto: Rotman
• ISB Hyderabad/Mohali, India
• Imperial College London
• ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
• National University of Singapore (NUS)
• University of Tokyo
• IIM-Ahmedabad, India
• BITS School of Management (BITSOM), India

According to ETS, the average (mean) GRE score for the Verbal and Quantitative parts is 150 and 153 and the median score is 151, and for quantitative reasoning, it is approximately 154. If candidates can score 159 or a Quantitative Reasoning score of 163 then they can be placed in the top 20% of all GRE test-takers.

Besides the scaled score, each GRE score also includes a percentile rank. The percentile rank shows the percentage of candidates who performed worse on that specific test than the individual test taker. For example, if a candidate’s percentage rank is 80, that means they scored better than 80% of all test-takers who took the GRE in the past three years. The percentage rank is based on the test results of all individuals who took the GRE in the most recent three-year period.