The six-year study included over 5800 participants at eight business schools within Europe. Nationality, age, gender, previous academic study & native language (i.e. English or not) were not found to affect performance when taking the GMAT.

The deans at London Business School, IESE in Barcelona and Rotterdam School of Management publicly endorsed the test; its widespread use being critical to the quality of the European MBA admissions process & to ensure global respect.

David Wilson, president of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), states,

"there is a direct correlation between GMAT scores and MBA grades. If the European schools want to predict the quality of their students, this is a proven, fair and equitable tool".

Carlos Cavalle, Dean of IESE Business School in Spain says, "The admissions process at IESE is exceptionally rigorous. Our level of confidence in the (GMAT) test has always been high”.

Kai Peters, Dean of Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) said, „more than 90 percent of our applicants come from outside of Holland, so It is critical to the quality of our admissions process that we have an assessment mechanism that we know is predictive across cultures. The GMAT has now been proven to be that mechanism, as studies involving schools including the RSM have confirmed that the test does not have a cultural bias."

Based on a press release by the The Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC). For more information visit gmac.com – the global non-profit GMAT organization.