Average Revised GRE Scores for Top US Universities for Masters and PhD

Average GRE Scores means the average of gre score of all applicants accepted in a university. You can look into average GRE score to find out what range of GRE scores a university is accepting.

If you are applying to competitive majors like Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, add a score of 5 + to the verbal and quant scores below. If you are from non-engineering majors you may do 5- in each sections to get your required Revised GRE score to apply to a university.

Average GRE scores for top US Universities

Here is a list of US universities with the average Revised GRE scores for their MS and PhD programs

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT):
Verbal: 158
Quantitative: 159
Writing: 5.3

Stanford University:
Verbal: 159
Quantitative: 158
Writing: 4.8

University of California, Berkeley:
Verbal: 153 – 156 score range
Quantitative: 167
Writing: 4.5

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA):
Verbal: 155
Quantitative: 167
Writing: 5.0

University of Virginia:
Verbal: 163
Quantitative: 166
Writing: 4.5

University of Michigan – Ann Arbor:
Verbal: 160 range
Quantitative: 167
Writing: 5.0

University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill:
Verbal: 158
Quantitative: 160
Writing: 4.5

Georgia Institute of Technology:
Verbal: 158
Quantitative: 167
Writing: 4.3

University of California – San Diego:
Verbal: 162
Quantitative: 160
Writing: 5.5

University of Illinois – Urbana/Champaign:
Verbal: 155
Quantitative: 165
Writing: 4.0

University of Wisconsin – Madison:
Verbal: 163
Quantitative: 731
Writing: 4.5

University of Washington:
Verbal: 156
Quantitative: 167
Writing: 4.0

Pennsylvania State University:
Verbal: 150
Quantitative: 165
Writing: 3.0

University of Florida (UFL):
Verbal: 154
Quantitative: 165
Writing: 3.0

University of Texas , Austin:
Verbal: 155
Quantitative: 165
Writing: 4.0

Ohio State University:
Verbal: 156
Quantitative: 165
Writing: 4.0

California Institute of Technology:
Verbal: 160
Quantitative: 157
Writing: 5.0

Duke University:
Verbal: 160
Quantitative: 160
Writing: 4.5

University of Chicago:
Verbal: 158
Quantitative: 167
Writing: 4.0

Northwestern University:
Verbal: 160
Quantitative: 160
Writing: 5.0

Washington University in St. Louis:
Verbal: 161
Quantitative: 160
Writing: 5.0

Johns Hopkins University:
Verbal: 163
Quantitative: 164
Writing: 4.8

Rice University:
Verbal: 160
Quantitative: 167
Writing: 5.0

Emory University:
Verbal: 153
Quantitative: 306
Writing: 4.0-6.0

University of Notre Dame:
Verbal: 165
Quantitative: 165
Writing: 5.3

Vanderbilt University:
Verbal: 157
Quantitative: 166
Writing: 4.8

William and Mary:
Verbal: 158
Quantitative: 160
Writing: 4.5