The purpose of the GME Admissions Reporting Standards is to aid in creating trust, educating junior colleagues or those new to GME admissions, and standardizing reporting, so candidates can accurately compare across programs. In response to requests from the GMAC membership, GMAC formed a task force at the beginning of 2019 to revise the MBA Reporting Criteria (in effect 2000 to 2013) into new GME Admissions Reporting Standards ("Standards"). These new Standards, which were endorsed by GMAC membership in the summer of 2020, are intended to align with the transformation of our industry and today's best practices.
A recommendation of the 2019 GME Admissions Reporting Standards Task Force was that the Standards that were released in 2020 be reviewed every two years to ensure they continue to guide schools in distributing reliable, accurate, useful, and comparable GME admissions data for prospective students and rankings organizations. To that end, the task force organized in 2022completed their work of updating the Standards in early 2023 to be used starting in the summer/fall of 2023. In early 2025, a new task force (listed below) was convened to tackle this important work which includes reviewing and analyzing market data and securing feedback from you—colleagues in GME—and releasing an updated version of the Standards to serve as a reference as you update your marketing collateral/properties and prepare submissions to ranking publications.
To support the task force, you are invited to download and review a copy of the current GME Admissions Reporting Standards below and provide questions, comments, or feedback to datastandards@gmac.com.
When the standards are updated later this year, schools should begin leveraging these standards for cohorts starting winter 2025. If your program is in compliance with the current Standards, you may request an updated 2024/2025 badge by emailing datastandards@gmac.com.
2025 Task Force to Review the Standards
GMAC extends our sincerest gratitude to the current task force for the many hours of work they are investing in revising the Standards and making themselves available for conferences, webinars, and virtual calls to address the membership questions.
• Clare Norton: Columbia University - Columbia Business School
• Lawrence Mur’ray: Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
• Nita Swinsick: Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business (co-chair)
• Danielle Richie: Indiana University - Kelley School of Business (co-chair)
• Jessica Lunce: Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business
• Chris Healy: The University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
• Melissa Lightell: Tulane University - Freeman School of Business
• Eric Askins: University of California - Berkeley Haas School of Business
• Amber Walsh: Yale University - Yale School of Management
• Eric Chambers: Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)
• Sabrina White: Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC)