267,000 GMAT Exam Takers in 2009
March 6th, 2010 | by Zeke Lee |Yup, that’s how many individuals you are competing with when you take the GMAT exam. At least that’s the figure that the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) announced for 2009. 267,000 is merely a few 1000 more than 2008’s number of 264,700. So roughly the comparable to last year.
We’ll see what happens next year as the GRE comes into play for more universities as an option to the GMAT, though GMAT is still the one the most schools think about.
Some points:
1) There are a great amount of people outside the US who’re taking the GMAT now– at least more than it was a long time ago. For the first time in the exam’s history, there were more international test takers than US test takers–just about 51% were foreigners.
2) There is a trend of higher quality business schools around the world outside the US. Itused to be that all the international students were sending their test scores to U.S. business schools. About 75% of them did this. But now, that number is down somewhat bit to 65%-indicating that more of them are sending scores to business schools around the world. There is less of a U.S.-centric mentality when it concerns putting on to business school from a global perspective.
3) More females are taking the exam now—105,000 of the 265,000 or so –so closer to 40%.
Well, that’s a few trends I desired to signifies just in case you were interested.
Interesting to see what will happen next year as ETS tries to market on their own and promote their GRE exam as an option to the GMAT.
How will these numbers look better? Well, a lot of that depends on how the economy will do. If the latest boosts in wall street bonus is any indication of the economic recovery in the next few years, then perhaps more people will flock over to jobs instead of school. However, if the economy contains to remain weak on a global scale, then we can expect GMAT enrollments to stay high and possibly elevate slightly.
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