Profile of GMAT ® Testing: Citizenship Five-Year Summary, TY2012–TY2016 November 2016 Globally, nearly 1.3 million Graduate Management Admission Test ® (GMAT ® ) exams have been taken over the past five years by individuals interested in pursuing graduate management education. The GMAT exam is an important part of the admissions process for more than 6,100 graduate management programs worldwide. A total of 261,248 GMAT exams were taken by prospective business school students around the world in testing year 2016 (TY2016), which ran from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. These examinees sent a total of 561,866 score reports to graduate-level management programs across the globe. This report summarizes five-year global GMAT testing trends for: • GMAT exams taken by citizenship; • GMAT exams taken by gender; • Mean age of GMAT examinees; • Mean GMAT Total Score; and • GMAT score-sending breakdowns by program type (MBA, non-MBA master’s, and doctoral/other), TY2016. Mean GMAT Total Scores and mean age of examinees are provided for citizenship groups with five or more exams taken and 10 or more score reports sent. What Can I Do With the Data? Use the data to build candidate profiles for specific country and regional groups. For example, using the tables you can determine the following about South Korean citizens who sat for the GMAT exam in TY2016: • South Korean citizens sat for 4,104 GMAT exams. • The mean age of South Korean test takers was 30.4 and the mean GMAT Total Score was 584. • South Korean men (67.8% of GMAT score reports) were more likely than South Korean women (45.3%) to send scores to MBA programs. • Of the 5,198 GMAT score reports sent by South Korean citizens, 23.6 percent were directed to non-MBA business master’s programs. • South Korean citizens represent 4.6 percent of GMAT testing by citizens of East and Southeast Asian countries and 1.6 percent of global testing. Make this report your starting point to target your search of potential students and enhance recruitment efforts. For example, you can purchase names of prospective students using the Graduate Management Admission Search Service ® (GMASS ® ) database or develop profiles of candidates based on data in the mba.com Prospective Students Survey Interactive Report. About This Report This Data Brief summarizes five years of data for GMAT exams taken and score reports sent worldwide, filtered by citizenship. Review GMAT exam and score reporting trends by: • Region of Citizenship • Country/Territory of Citizenship About GMAT Examinees Data in the tables reflect the total number of GMAT exams that generated valid Total Scores during a given testing year. Test takers who took the exam more than once during the year are included in the aggregate data. For example, an individual who took the GMAT exam twice in TY2016 would represent a total of two exams taken during that year.
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Profile of GMAT® Testing: Citizenship
Five-Year Summary, TY2012–TY2016 November 2016 Globally, nearly 1.3 million Graduate Management Admission Test® (GMAT®) exams have been taken over the past five years by individuals interested in pursuing graduate management education. The GMAT exam is an important part of the admissions process for more than 6,100 graduate management programs worldwide. A total of 261,248 GMAT exams were taken by prospective business school students around the world in testing year 2016 (TY2016), which ran from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2016. These examinees sent a total of 561,866 score reports to graduate-level management programs across the globe.
This report summarizes five-year global GMAT testing trends for:
• GMAT exams taken by citizenship;
• GMAT exams taken by gender;
• Mean age of GMAT examinees;
• Mean GMAT Total Score; and
• GMAT score-sending breakdowns by program type (MBA, non-MBA master’s, and doctoral/other), TY2016.
Mean GMAT Total Scores and mean age of examinees are provided for citizenship groups with five or more exams taken and 10 or more score reports sent.
What Can I Do With the Data? Use the data to build candidate profiles for specific country and regional groups. For example, using the tables you can determine the following about South Korean citizens who sat for the GMAT exam in TY2016:
• South Korean citizens sat for 4,104 GMAT exams.
• The mean age of South Korean test takers was 30.4 and the mean GMAT Total Score was 584.
• South Korean men (67.8% of GMAT score reports) were more likely than South Korean women (45.3%) to send scores to MBA programs.
• Of the 5,198 GMAT score reports sent by South Korean citizens, 23.6 percent were directed to non-MBA business master’s programs.
• South Korean citizens represent 4.6 percent of GMAT testing by citizens of East and Southeast Asian countries and 1.6 percent of global testing.
Make this report your starting point to target your search of potential students and enhance recruitment efforts. For example, you can purchase names of prospective students using the Graduate Management Admission Search Service® (GMASS®) database or develop profiles of candidates based on data in the mba.com Prospective Students Survey Interactive Report.
About This Report
This Data Brief summarizes five years of data for GMAT exams taken and score reports sent worldwide, filtered by citizenship.
Review GMAT exam and score reporting trends by:
• Region of Citizenship
• Country/Territory of Citizenship
About GMAT Examinees
Data in the tables reflect the total number of GMAT exams that generated valid Total Scores during a given testing year. Test takers who took the exam more than once during the year are included in the aggregate data. For example, an individual who took the GMAT exam twice in TY2016 would represent a total of two exams taken during that year.
GMAC® Data-to-Go Profile of GMAT® Testing: Citizenship, TY2012–TY2016
In late June 2014, GMAC instituted a revised policy offering test takers the ability to preview their GMAT exam scores before deciding whether to accept or cancel the exam results. Although no score reports are distributed to schools for those who cancel their exam results, candidates do have the option to reinstate their scores and submit them to schools of their choosing at a later date.
The ability to cancel exam results is not new; however, candidates in the past were unable to see their scores before making the decision to cancel a score. Following the policy change, the number of test takers choosing to cancel their score increased from approximately 1 percent a year to 27 percent in testing year (TY) 2016. Ultimately, the majority of test takers who cancel their exam results go on to retake the GMAT exam and generate a new set of reportable scores.
This new candidate feature has led to different behaviors among candidates in the pipeline based on their GMAT exam performance. Table 1 shows that candidates with a GMAT Total Score lower than 650 tend to cancel their scores at a much higher rate than candidates who score 650 or greater (33% versus 11% in TY2016, respectively).
This behavior, along with other factors such as changing demographics in the testing pool, has led to an increase in GMAT exam volume for candidates scoring 650 or greater—an 18 percent increase in TY2016 compared with TY2014. In addition, GMAT score sending among this group of candidates is up by nearly 13,000 score reports in TY2016 when compared with TY2014.
On the other hand, GMAT test takers scoring lower than 650 have reduced their GMAT score sending from 470,690 score reports in TY2014 to 331,726 in TY2016, a drop of nearly 140,000 score reports.
These dynamics have led to a more refined candidate pool, with higher-scoring candidates representing more of the global GMAT exam pipeline and directing a greater number of GMAT score reports to business programs around the world.
Care should be taken, however, when comparing aggregate score-sending figures in TY2016 with previous years, as fewer score reports overall are now being sent as candidates have changed their score cancel behavior in line with the new policy.
GMAC reports annual GMAT exam trends to monitor global interest and student mobility in high-quality graduate management education worldwide. Because candidates who cancel their scores continue to represent recruitment opportunities for business programs around the world, GMAC will continue to include canceled exam volume in its candidate reports. This reporting change allows comparisons to be made more accurately across time for the number of exams taken by any given student group.
Table 1. Distribution of GMAT® Exams, Score Reports Sent, and Canceled Score Rate (%)
Canceled Score Rate (%) 0.4% 5.3% 10.8% †GMAT exam volume for TY2014 includes only exams that resulted in a reportable score. GMAT exam volumes for TY2015 and TY2016 include both score reportable exams and those with candidate canceled scores. *Score Preview policy went into effect in TY2015.
GMAC® Data-to-Go Profile of GMAT® Testing: Citizenship TY2012–TY2016
Table 3. GMAT® Testing Trends by Country/Territory of Citizenship
Citizenship
GMAT® Exams Taken by Testing Year TY2016 Score Reports Sent by Program
Exams Taken TY2012 TY2013 TY2014 TY2015 TY2016 Scores Sent MBA
Non-MBA
Master’s
Doctoral /Other
United States
Total 117,511 90,541 87,110 84,600 83,410 197,193 78.6% 19.3% 2.1%
Men 71,344 55,735 53,724 52,135 51,065 126,656 80.2% 18.0% 1.8%
Women 46,167 34,806 33,386 32,465 32,336 70,511 75.8% 21.6% 2.6%
Mean Age 26.8 26.7 26.7 26.6 26.5 26.4 26.8 24.3 30.7
Mean Total Score 533 532 537 542 547 575 585 532 601
Uruguay
Total 52 48 44 48 66 160 91.3% 6.3% 2.5%
Men 38 34 30 34 44 113 90.3% 6.2% 3.5%
Women 14 14 14 14 22 47 93.6% 6.4% 0.0%
Mean Age 27.4 28.0 27.2 27.3 28.9 28.9 28.6 32.4 —
Mean Total Score 591 587 574 604 550 579 586 496 —
Uzbekistan
Total 122 88 90 126 106 272 66.5% 31.6% 1.8%
Men 92 71 67 95 73 208 67.3% 30.3% 2.4%
Women 30 17 23 31 33 64 64.1% 35.9% 0.0%
Mean Age 26.6 27.8 27.5 25.6 26.1 26.0 27.0 23.7 —
Mean Total Score 532 521 524 550 563 589 602 557 —
Vanuatu
Total 0 0 0 2 0 0 — — —
Men 0 0 0 1 0 0 — — —
Women 0 0 0 1 0 0 — — —
Mean Age — — — — — — — — —
Mean Total Score — — — — — — — — —
Venezuela
Total 470 370 368 374 313 648 82.7% 16.8% 0.5%
Men 299 224 211 239 221 468 82.5% 17.3% 0.2%
Women 171 146 157 135 92 180 83.3% 15.6% 1.1%
Mean Age 27.2 25.9 26.6 27.0 27.1 26.7 26.9 25.8 —
Mean Total Score 483 496 477 508 505 542 551 497 —
Vietnam
Total 1,360 1,310 1,455 1,501 1,865 4,108 51.4% 42.4% 6.2%
Men 568 511 592 571 730 1,662 49.9% 41.6% 8.5%
Women 792 799 863 930 1,135 2,446 52.3% 43.0% 4.7%
Mean Age 24.6 24.6 24.6 24.5 24.8 24.6 25.2 23.6 27.0
Mean Total Score 535 542 546 553 555 601 602 592 643
Yemen
Total 40 30 29 26 32 60 46.7% 23.3% 30.0%
Men 34 25 22 14 22 44 43.2% 15.9% 40.9%
Women 6 5 7 12 10 16 56.3% 43.8% 0.0%
Mean Age 28.1 27.2 27.5 26.1 30.2 29.2 30.3 24.8 31.0
Mean Total Score 378 395 388 348 388 437 502 398 367
Zambia
Total 37 28 40 36 52 105 71.4% 27.6% 1.0%
Men 27 16 27 23 35 77 66.2% 33.8% 0.0%
Women 10 12 13 13 17 28 85.7% 10.7% 3.6%
Mean Age 31.7 31.4 30.8 33.3 30.8 29.4 29.7 28.1 —
Mean Total Score 428 417 425 421 473 497 505 478 —
Zimbabwe
Total 159 137 157 165 191 424 77.4% 18.6% 4.0%
Men 108 92 96 97 116 269 79.6% 16.4% 4.1%
Women 51 45 61 68 75 155 73.5% 22.6% 3.9%
Mean Age 29.2 29.7 29.0 28.6 29.8 29.5 29.9 27.2 32.6 Mean Total Score 489 488 496 480 503 542 560 482 456
Note: Dashes that appear in the table are used to indicate “not applicable”, such as when there are no examinees in a given subgroup, and thus, no scores exist. For examinee privacy, dashes are also used in place of mean age and mean Total Scores when there are fewer than five exams taken or fewer than 10 score reports sent by any given candidate group.
GMAC® Data-to-Go Profile of GMAT® Testing: Citizenship, TY2012–TY2016
The GMAT exam consists of four sections: Verbal, Quantitative, Analytical Writing, and Integrated Reasoning. GMAT Total Scores, as presented in this report, are calculated based on performance on the Verbal and Quantitative sections of the exam. Total Scores are reported in increments of 10, on a scale ranging from 200 to 800. Results are valid for a five-year period from test sitting. Please note that GMAT exam volume was artificially elevated in TY2012 as many examinees opted to sit for the exam before the addition of Integrated Reasoning (IR) in June 2012.
Notes About the Data
Gender Classifications
Beginning in testing year 2016, individuals who registered to take the GMAT exam had the option of checking a gender category called “Other” when entering their background information and setting up an account on mba.com. In TY2016, a total of 13 GMAT exams were taken by individuals who checked the “Other” gender option when registering. These exams are reflected in the total exam count in the region and country tables but are not broken out in separate gender categories within the tables.
GMAT Program Code Classifications
Program data in this report are based on a business school’s current GMAT code classifications for its respective programs. In any given GMAT testing year, school representatives can modify their program classifications if they differ from original classifications established at the time of GMAT program code assignment. Consequently, historic GMAT score-sending data may change based on such program classification changes.
Review of Historical GMAT Testing Data
In August 2015, GMAC conducted a review of historical GMAT testing data using new database technology. Minor anomalies were discovered and subsequently corrected for GMAT testing data between TY2007 and TY2008. Updated testing volumes for this period have dropped by approximately 1,000 exams. For details, please contact David Svancer at [email protected] or the GMAC Research Services Department at [email protected].
Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Cote d’Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libyan Arab Jamahiriya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of Congo Reunion Rwanda Sao Tome & Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda
Zambia Zimbabwe
AUSTRALIA & PACIFIC ISLANDS
American Samoa Australia Christmas Island Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia, Federated States of New Caledonia New Zealand Northern Mariana Islands Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tahiti Tonga Vanuatu
CANADA
Canada
CENTRAL & SOUTH ASIA
Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Nepal Pakistan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan
EAST & SOUTHEAST ASIA
Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong (SAR of China) Indonesia Japan Korea, North Korea, South Lao People’s Democratic Republic Macau (SAR of China) Malaysia Maldives
Mongolia Myanmar (Burma) Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Vietnam
EASTERN EUROPE
Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Belarus Bosnia-Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Estonia Georgia Hungary Latvia Lithuania Macedonia Moldova Montenegro Poland Romania Russia Serbia, Republic of Serbia & Montenegro Slovakia Slovenia Ukraine
MEXICO, CARIBBEAN, & LATIN AMERICA
Anguilla Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic
GMAC® Data-to-Go Profile of GMAT® Testing: Citizenship, TY2012–TY2016
Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Montserrat Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts & Nevis Saint Lucia St. Vincent & Grenadines Suriname Trinidad & Tobago Turks & Caicos Islands Uruguay Venezuela
MIDDLE EAST
Bahrain Gaza Strip Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Oman Palestinian Territories Qatar Saudi Arabia Syrian Arab Republic Turkey United Arab Emirates West Bank Yemen
UNITED STATES
United States of America
WESTERN EUROPE
Andorra Austria Belgium
Cyprus Denmark Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Liechtenstein Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands Norway Portugal San Marino Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom
Related Publications • Profile of GMAT Testing: Residence, Five-Year Summary, TY2012–TY2016 gmac.com/profile
• Profile of GMAT Testing: North America, Five-Year Summary, TY2012–TY2016 gmac.com/profile
• 2016 mba.com Prospective Students Survey Report gmac.com/prospectivestudents
• 2016 mba.com Prospective Students Interactive Research Tool gmac.com/interactiveresearch
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Contributors
The following individuals from the GMAC Research Services Department made significant contributions to the publication of this report: David Svancer, Senior Manager, Data Science, data preparation and manuscript review; Hillary Chan, Research Analysis Associate Manager, analysis, interpretation of data, and revising of manuscript for intellectual content; Paula Bruggeman, Research Publications Manager, editorial review and publication management; Tacoma Williams, Research Senior Coordinator, quality assurance; Gregg Schoenfeld, Director, Management Education Research, data and manuscript review.
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