{"id":2770,"date":"2010-03-29T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2010-04-01T17:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T01:49:22","slug":"gmat-expands-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/gmat-expands-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"GMAT Expands Worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are now more than 500 GMAT testing centers around the world, a 25% increase since 2006, reports a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/gmac.mediaroom.com\/index.php?s=43&amp;item=107\" target=\"_blank\">GMAC press release<\/a>. Each of the testing centers administers on-demand GMAT exams, as well as consistent test procedures and security measures.<\/p>\n<p>As more testing centers spring up around the world, more international students receive access to the GMAT exam, thus expanding the b-school applicant pool. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.accepted.com\/acceptedcom_blog\/2010\/1\/5\/record-gmat-registration-volume-in-2009.html?utm_campaign=MBAContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=BlogPost\">GMAT test-taker numbers reached an all time high in 2009<\/a> -- nearly 267,000 tests. In fact, last year was the first year in the 56-year history of the test that the number of non-American test-takers outnumbered the U.S. citizens. Chinese and Indian citizens played a major role in increasing the international GMAT numbers. For example, 181% more Chinese citizens took the GMAT in 2009 than they did in 2005; the Indian test-taking market experienced a 128% increase in that same five year period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want our news sent directly to your inbox? <\/strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx?utm_campaign=BlogContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=SubscribeBlog\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/blog\/subscribe.aspx?utm_campaign=BlogContent&amp;utm_medium=Blog&amp;utm_source=BlogVisitors&amp;utm_content=SubscribeBlog\"><strong><span style=\"color: blue\">Subscribe to the Accepted Admissions Almanac by clicking here!<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.accepted.com\/MBA\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><span><span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/profile.ak.fbcdn.net\/object3\/947\/54\/s8255073883_9880.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1260090948492\" alt=\"\" \/><\/span><\/span>Accepted.com<\/a> ~ Helping You Write Your Best<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are now more than 500 GMAT testing centers around the world, a 25% increase since 2006, reports a recent GMAC press release. Each of the testing centers administers on-demand&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11,6],"tags":[173,1894,189,39],"class_list":["post-2770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gmat","category-mba","category-current-events","tag-gmac","tag-gmat","tag-international","tag-mba-admissions","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2772,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2770\/revisions\/2772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}