03 July 2008

GRE-A gateway

Until now students have to take up the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) which has been the standard conventional test for admission to the MBA courses. This test is obligatory for those whose aspiration is to study in top universities in the U.S and Europe. One astonishing bequest struck majority of students, which is the incursion of Graduate Record Examination (GRE) into the MBA schools. Several preferred business schools in the U.S such as Stanford University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have begun to consider GRE scores for students who don’t take up the GMAT test. They are ranked two and four respectively in the list that portrays the leading institutions of the country. Though we can see that this process is done on case-by-case basis several other business schools too have started using the GRE as an option, which brings shout approval and elation among the applicants from countries including India. The fact is that bulk of the students who are yearning to go abroad come from engineering background and they take GRE test for M.S courses. As there is a change in the admission procedures those who opt for MBA would not have to take up GMAT test thereby saving money and time. This is undeniably a welcome sign for career development.

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