Owen Graduate School of Management (Vanderbilt)

401 21st Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203

owen.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbilt

452people follow this school

337members applied here

Key facts

Full-Time MBA

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Class profile

Class size: 147
Applications: 904
Average GMAT (old exam): 680
GMAT range (old exam): 630-730
Average age: 28
Work experience: 5.4 years on average
Women: 30%
International students: 14%
Rolling admissions: No

Application deadlines

Schools change their deadlines every year. See this year's dates on the school's site.

Rankings

Bloomberg Businessweek: #29
U.S. News: #25
Financial Times: #41

Cost and jobs

Median base salary: $111,168
Median salary with bonus: $137,583
Employed after graduation: 92%

Essay questions

We have four required written statements and all have a 75 word limit. Three statements are career-focused and one is a more creative statement.

Statement 1: What are your short-term career goals after obtaining your MBA and what functional area do you plan to study while in the MBA program?
Statement 2: What are some specific skills that you want to develop during your time in business school to help you achieve your career goals?
Statement 3: The role of the Vanderbilt MBA Career Management Center is to partner with students to discover and define their career goals; to educate and coach students in developing and refining skills and experiences to achieve their career goals; to facilitate partnerships among students, the business community and the Vanderbilt community. How do you plan to direct your career search and collaborate with the Career Management Center to work toward your career goals?
Statement 4: Our mission is to provide world-class business education on a personal scale. What does personal scale mean to you?
Optional Explanatory Statement: You may provide an additional statement to explain anything that you think is important for the Admissions Committee to know about you that is not already addressed elsewhere in your application. Many applicants use this statement to explain significant gaps in full-time employment, lack of recommendation from a current supervisor, or subpar academic performance.

These numbers were last updated in 2023. GMAT scores here are from the old 200 to 800 exam, which ended in early 2024. Check the school's own website for this year's numbers.

What members who applied here reported

336 Beat The GMAT members shared their profile when they applied to Owen between 2011 and 2020. Their GMAT scores are from the old 200 to 800 exam.

685Average GMAT (old exam)

3.32Average GPA

4Years of work before applying

27Average age when applying

Members

Work before the MBA

Other24%
Financial Services18%
Consulting11%
High Tech10%
Healthcare / Biotech8%
Manufacturing6%

College major

Engineering28%
Business Administration28%
Economics11%
Other10%
Social Sciences10%
Humanities7%