Chris Swimmer

NYU GRE Scores

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The great urban university of New York City, NYU. (Okay, I might catch some flack from Columbia folk for that.) Some years it seems that there as many people hoping to get into graduate school at NYU as there are actors desperate to make it on Broadway. And unfortunately for you, dear grad school aspirant, it often seems just about as difficult.

So how do you set yourself apart? Well one thing that the admissions committee looks at is your GRE test scores. Yeah, that’s right, one little test can change the course of the committee’s decision and consequently the course of your academic (and personal!) life. So what do you need to get in?

Average GRE Scores for NYU – Engineering and Education

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If you’re applying to grad programs in either Engineering or Education at NYU, you’re in luck: these programs provide concrete GRE data on an annual basis. Here’s the US News & World Report data on the Engineering and Education programs at NYU:

Program Average verbal Average Quantitative
Engineering – Master’s 151 165
Engineering – PhD 155 165
Education – Master’s 154 156
Education – PhD/EdD 159 157

 

Estimating NYU GRE Scores in Other Disciplines

If only Engineering and Education programs provide GRE scores, how can we know what scores are like in other programs? Based on rankings. Using the score data and rankings from Engineering and Education, we can estimate scores for other NYU programs.

Below is an estimated range of scores you could expect from NYU’s ranked programs.

Program US News Rank Estimated Verbal Range Estimated Quantitative Range
Biological Sciences 46 155-159 155-159
Chemistry 51 152-156 156-160
Computer Science 35 153-157 164-168
Economics 11 157-161 164-168
English 20 159-163 152-156
Fine Arts 42 159-163 154-158
History 16 158-162 151-155
Mathematics 8 159-163 170
Physics 28 158-162 163-167
Political Science 15 159-163 156-160
Psychology 30 154-158 151-155
Public Administration 10 159-163 159-163
Social Work 16 152-156 148-152
Sociology 13 156-160 153-157


To see where those scores fall, check out the GRE percentile rankings.

Resources to Get the GRE Scores You’ll Need

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  • Chris Swimmer

    Chris Swimmer is an analyst at Magoosh who divides his time between marketing and research projects and helping folks out with their math hang ups while studying for the GRE and the GMAT. Follow him on Google+! And you can follow him @chrisrswimmer on Twitter.

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