For 23 years, the Application Trends Survey has assessed longitudinal trends in the application volume of all graduate management education types, including:
• Changes in application volume over time
• Applicant pool demographics, including candidate gender, work experience, and citizenship
• Quality or academic credentials of applicants
• Acceptance and enrollment rates
• Incoming class size
• Availability of tuition assistance and employer funding
• Recruitment strategies, programmatic changes, and more
All graduate-level management programs are eligible to participate in the study, and responses will remain confidential. Survey results are only reported in aggregate so that no individual response is reported.
Benefits of participating include:
• Benchmark Report – A FREE online service that allows survey respondents to create instant benchmark reports comparing your program responses against those of your peers. You will receive a unique Benchmark Report link for each program that you submit for the survey.
• Interactive Data Research Tool – A FREE online tool that lets users examine survey findings in greater depth and conduct customized data searches by numerous variables including program type and school location, application volume trends, class size, regional trends, school outreach, and more.
• GMAC staff expertise – If you have any questions about the research study, the data, are interested in additional analysis, or seek assistance interpreting results, we are here for you.
Visit GMAC's
website to explore last year’s results. Invitations will be emailed in early June, and the survey will be open through mid-August.
If you would like to participate, please contact us (
info@ceeman.org) by
June 7, and we will add you to survey invitation list.