Find the best candidates for your graduate program

For nearly six decades the GRE tests have played an important role in the graduate admissions process. Developed and administered by Educational Testing Service, the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations®) tests assess academic knowledge and skills relevant to graduate study – and give you the information you need to carefully evaluate your applicants.

The GRE General Test is the preferred admissions test for thousands of graduate programs worldwide. Taken by more than 550,000 students each year, the GRE General Test:

• Measures the skills that faculty and graduate deans consider essential for graduate school success
• Provides the only common measures for comparing the qualifications of applications from different educational backgrounds and countries of origin
• Furnishes independent information to supplement the evaluation of grades and recommendations

Business schools look to GRE to boost diversity

More universities have begun using the GRE test for admission to MBA and graduate management programs. The reason? It increases and diversifies the business program applicant pool.

Derrick Bolton, director of MBA admissions at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, told Inside Higher Education that accepting the GRE test in addition to GMAT may help boost the pool of women candidates.

“The GRE test takers are more likely to be women, and more likely to be undergraduates or just a year out, while the GMAT is more popular with those who have been out a few years,” he said. “If we are able to fish in both of those pools, how can that hurt us? There are definitely some people who would not have applied to the MBA program had we put an additional barrier of requiring the GMAT.”

“Some people are surprised to learn that the GRE test measures the same basic cognitive skills as the GMAT test,” says David Payne, ETS Associate Vice President. “In fact, ETS actually developed the GMAT test some years ago, so we are keenly aware that it does not measure business skills. Like the GRE test, it measures knowledge and skills that admissions officials must evaluate when considering applicants for graduate programs.”

More than 175 MBA programs worldwide accept GRE scores – including two programs in Canada: The Queen’s School of Business and the University of New Brunswick, Saint John.

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Information for test-takers

ETS Canada does not take GRE registrations or provide results. Please visit www.ets.org/gre for information.