Schools & Colleges by category: Art & Design Colleges Boarding SchoolsBusiness & Management Colleges, Diploma Programs Computer Science & IT Training Distance Learning Education Language Institutes Worldwide Schools for Young Children Sports Colleges & Programs Technological Colleges TEFL / TESOL / CELTA Courses Universities & Gradschools f you're in midcareer and want to get into an MBA program tailored for busy executives, and you can't summon the college math, don't fret. Try this one: How many executive MBA programs in BusinessWeek's top 25 require the GMAT? The answer: 12. That's right, you can get into EMBA programs at 13 top-ranked B-schools without taking the GMAT.
In the last few years, scores of B-schools -- including such top-ranked institutions as University of California at Los Angeles' Anderson School of Management -- have quietly abandoned the GMAT as a requirement for EMBA programs. Some now waive the test on a case-by-case basis; others have cut it from their admissions criteria altogether.
That development -- the subject of a raging debate inside the closed-door world of B-schools -- comes at a time when EMBA programs and applications to them are on the rise. That leads some to suggest that the waivers are motivated by profit, since full-time MBA offerings, which require the GMAT, are struggling to attract students. Says Maury Kalnitz, managing director of the Executive MBA Council, an EMBA research group: "It's a matter of competing for students."
