The Graduate Management Admission Council or GMAC, owner of the GMAT exam, accepted by more than 5,400 graduate business and management programmes worldwide - has announced a total of 286,529 GMAT exams worldwide were taken.
831,337 score reports were sent to 5,281 graduate business and management programmes around the world: these are all historic highs. The 2012 GMAT exam volume was up 11 per cent from the 2011 testing year, and 8 per cent higher than the previous record of 265,613 in 2009.
The key trends reflected in the GMAC's numbers for 2012 are:
- The number of programmes receiving scores was up 7% from 2011 and 21% from 2008.
- Roughly 560,000 GMAT score reports were sent to MBA and EMBA programs, and 240,000 scores went to other masters programmes (such as accounting, finance, and management).
- GMAT testing outside of the United States continues to grow quickly. Tests taken by non-U.S. citizens rose 19% in 2012 and represented 59% of global GMAT volume.
- Chinese test takers, the second-largest citizenship group after the U.S,. represented 20 % per cent of global testing.
- In 2012, the number of exams taken by Chinese citizens increased 45% to 58,196 exams.
- Indian citizens, the third-largest citizenship group, took 30,213 GMAT exams, a figure that increased 19% in 2012.
The percentage of exams taken by women hit 42.9% in 2012—a record for the third straight year.
Source: GMAC http://www.mba.com/
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