267,000 People Take GMAT in 2009
Yes, the’re a large number of people who are merely like you taking the GMAT exam. That’s the number of people that the guys who organize the GMAT exam–the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) reported for 2009. 267,000 people in 2009– pretty much where the 2008 number of 264,700 was.
We’ll see what happens next year as the GRE comes into play for more universities as an option to the GMAT, though GMAT remains the one the most schools think about.
Some points:
1) There are a lot of people outside the US who are taking the GMAT now– at least more than it was previously. 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) Better business schools around the world are popping up. It used to be that everyone sent their test scores to US universities, but this is not the truth anymore. Now, a lot of students are opting to send their schools to European or Asian business schools so there is a shift in that direction.
3) More women are taking the exam now—105,000 of the 265,000 or so –so closer to 40%.
Anyway, just some interesting trends in test taking that I thought you might find interesting.
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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