The GMAT is not required for Cranfield's Management MSc. Entry is a UK first- or second-class honours degree (or international equivalent), with no specific subject restriction and no work experience required — Cranfield steers applicants with three or more years of experience toward its MBA instead. Everyone must evidence English: Cranfield asks for IELTS 6.5 overall with at least 5.5 in every component, and exempts you only if you are a national of, or hold a higher-education qualification awarded within the last five years from, the UK or a UKVI majority English-speaking country — a list with no South Asian or African country on it. Confirm the current requirements on the school's own page.
Not required. Entry is a UK first- or second-class honours degree in any subject with no work experience required — Cranfield steers applicants with three or more years toward its MBA instead — plus IELTS 6.5 with at least 5.5 in every component, exempted only by nationality or a degree awarded within five years by a UKVI majority English-speaking country
| Test policy | Not required. Entry is a UK first- or second-class honours degree in any subject with no work experience required — Cranfield steers applicants with three or more years toward its MBA instead — plus IELTS 6.5 with at least 5.5 in every component, exempted only by nationality or a degree awarded within five years by a UKVI majority English-speaking country |
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| MiMs we track admitting without a required GMAT/GRE | 75 of 118 |
A GMAT or GRE is not required to apply to the Cranfield School of Management MiM — it is one of the 75 of 118 Master's in Management we track (about 64%) that admit without a required test. See every European MiM you can apply to without a GMAT on our MiM without the GMAT shortlist, or read how GMAT waivers work.
Most European MiM programs, including this one, accept the GRE and often the GMAT Focus Edition or a school-specific test as alternatives, and weigh the whole application — academics, internships, essays, and interview — rather than the score alone.
Frequently asked questions
Do you need a GMAT or work experience for Cranfield's Management MSc?
Sources
- Cranfield School of Management — Management MSc, Fees and funding. FEE CYCLE CHECKED 2026-09-13 (P25b, UK leg). The course page's fee block is headed by cycle on both columns — 'Course fees / Home 2026-27 / Overseas 2026-27' — and prices 'MSc Full-time GBP 18,900' home and 'MSc Full-time GBP 35,950' overseas, each with its deposit (GBP 1,000 home, GBP 3,000 overseas, 'non-refundable'). The corpus figure is right and is the 2026-27 rate. Route note for the next run: cranfield.ac.uk returns HTTP 200 with a 'Content not found' body for wrong paths, so a soft-404 there reads as a successful fetch — the live path is /som/masters-courses/management ↗ — Cranfield School of Management
- Cranfield School of Management — Management MSc ↗ — Cranfield University
- Cranfield School of Management — Rankings ↗ — Cranfield University
- Cranfield School of Management — Accreditations and awards ↗ — Cranfield University
- Cranfield University — Entry requirements (application guide). ENGLISH EVIDENCE CHECKED 2026-09-09 (P33b, UK leg). This profile previously said the English test was required 'for non-native English speakers', which is not the rule Cranfield publishes. The course page states the requirement universally — 'To study for a formal award at Cranfield you will need to demonstrate that you can communicate effectively in English in an academic environment' — and the entry-requirements page keys the exemption to country, on two alternative routes, verbatim: 'You are a national of the UK, or a country on the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) list of majority English speaking countries listed below' and 'You have obtained a higher education level qualification, within five years of the start of your course, from the UK or a country on the UKVI list of majority English speaking countries listed below.' The list printed on the page is the 18-entry UKVI set (Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Ireland, Jamaica, Malta, New Zealand, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, USA), with a footnote on Canada: 'You will usually be required take an English test if your studies were not taught and assessed in English.' No medium-of-instruction route is published, and the five-year recency condition sits on the degree route only. P33f RE-READ 2026-09-12: read again for one question only — does submitting a test result BELOW the course requirement remove an exemption the applicant would otherwise hold, as Bath states ('you will not be exempt')? This page publishes NO rule either way. Recorded as a dated SILENCE on that question, never as permission: a page that says nothing has not promised to ignore a weak score. ↗ — Cranfield University