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More GMAT test takers are sending more score reports to more business schools worldwide, a sign of the globalization of both graduate management education and the GMAT exam. All the same, the new GMAC Geographic Trend reports suggest much of the growth in GMAT test taking is from students who are interested in business schools closer to home.
In the testing year ending June 30, 2009, a record 265,613 GMAT exams were taken, 801,504 score reports were sent, and the number of graduate management programs accepting GMAT scores worldwide topped 4,700. In documenting five-year score-sending trends, GMAC’s new World Geographic Trend Report 2005-2009 plus regional reports for Asia and Europe reveal that non-US test takers are sending proportionally fewer score reports to US schools. Nonetheless, even though Asian test takers are sending more test scores to Asian business schools, and European citizens are sending more scores to European schools, overall testing volume rose so much that the total number of scores sent to US schools continued to rise.
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