The Stanford MBA Program’s candidate pool is ever-changing, so the composition of our entering class changes each year, too. With our class size, every student influences the class profile. The same holds true in our admission process.
There are no quotas or targets in the Stanford admission process; we assess each applicant based on her or his own merit. As you review the MBA Class of 2021 profile, understand that it’s simply a reflection of our current incoming class, and does not define the composition of a future class.
Class of 2021 Overview1
| Total Applicants |
7,342 |
| New Students |
417 |
| Women |
47% |
| International2 |
43% |
| U.S. Minority |
27% |
Years of Work Experience
Previous Industry Experience
| Arts/Media/Entertainment |
5% |
| Clean Tech/Energy/Environmental |
3% |
| Consulting |
20% |
| Consumer Products and Services |
8% |
| Financial Services |
7% |
| Government/Education/Nonprofit |
10% |
| Health Care |
5% |
| Investment Management/Private Equity/Venture Capital |
19% |
| Manufacturing |
3% |
| Military |
3% |
| Technology |
14% |
| Other |
4% |
| Organizations Represented |
297 |
Test Scores3
| GMAT |
| Range |
600-790 |
| Average |
734 |
| GRE (Verbal) |
| Range |
149-170 |
| Average |
165 |
| GRE (Quantitative) |
| Range |
157-170 |
| Average |
165 |
| TOEFL (Internet-based) |
| Range |
105-120 |
| Average |
114 |
Education
| Undergraduate Majors |
| Business |
17% |
| Engineering/Mathematics/Natural Sciences |
33% |
| Humanities/Social Sciences |
50% |
| Advanced Degree Holders |
14% |
| GPA Average4 |
3.7 |
Schools and Countries
| U.S. Institutions |
80 |
| Non-U.S. Institutions |
80 |
| Countries (including U.S.) |
66 |
1 As of 16 September 2019
2 Includes U.S. permanent residents and U.S. dual citizens
3 We consider all component scores for GMAT, GRE, and TOEFL; 19% of the class took the GRE
4 U.S. schools, 4.0 scale only
