GMAT Average for Tuck Students Hits Record High

This year's incoming MBA class at the Tuck School of Business has an average GMAT score of 710, marking the highest average GMAT score of any class in the School's history.

The average GMAT for members of Tuck's Class of 2007 was 699, and for the Class of 2005, 696.

GMAT scores for members of Tuck's Class of 2008 range from 560 to 790.

Tuck's incoming MBA class also set records for the percentage of women students (33 per cent) and international students (30 per cent).

All of this year's entering students have full-time work experience, with 5 years being the average. Approximately 30 per cent of the class worked in investment banking, private equity, or finance. 16 per cent worked in technology, 15 per cent worked in marketing, retail, consumer goods, or manufacturing, and 11 per cent worked in consulting. 12 per cent served in the military or worked in the governmental, educational, or nonprofit sectors.

The average undergraduate GPA for the students who attended U.S. colleges is 3.6. 20 per cent of the students already hold advanced degrees.

These numbers reflect the large size of Tuck's 2005-2006 applicant pool, which was almost a third larger than the applicant pool in 2004-2005. The growth in application volume was driven in part by Tuck's efforts to increase its outreach to prospective international students.