The GMAT is not required for the GEM Master in Management (Grande École). For international direct-entry applicants, GMAT, GRE, CAT, and TAGE-MAGE scores are recommended but not mandatory, and the school accepts applications without a test score. Applicants who enter via the French AST concours pathway take TAGE-MAGE or GMAT as a scored component of that competition. English proficiency (such as a TOEIC) is required.
Recommended, not mandatory, for international direct entry — GMAT, GRE, CAT or TAGE-MAGE. Applicants entering through the French AST concours take the TAGE-MAGE or GMAT as a scored component of that competition
| Test policy | Recommended, not mandatory, for international direct entry — GMAT, GRE, CAT or TAGE-MAGE. Applicants entering through the French AST concours take the TAGE-MAGE or GMAT as a scored component of that competition |
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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 Grenoble École de 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
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Sources
- Grenoble École de Management — Master in Management (Grande École Program) (PGE tuition from €17,000/yr, ≈€34,000 over 2 yrs; re-verified unchanged). FEE BASIS CHECKED 2026-09-06 (P36), and it reproduces with the cycle label this profile lacked: the page now heads its 'Full tuition fees' as 2026-2028 and prices the two years separately — Year 1 €17,000 starting September 2026, Year 2 €17,000 starting September 2027 — so €34,000 is the degree, not a year, and it is priced for the intake a 2027 applicant is applying to. The optional gap year is €1,000. The page states fees cover tuition, project supervision and access to GEM facilities but not accommodation, meals, insurance, visa or personal expenses, and warns that fees are subject to change ↗ — Grenoble École de Management
- Grenoble École de Management — Online application deadlines ↗ — Grenoble École de Management
- Financial Times — Masters in Management 2025 ↗ — Financial Times
- QS Business Masters Rankings: Management 2026 ↗ — QS Quacquarelli Symonds
- Grenoble École de Management — Master in Management (Grande École Program), re-read 2026-09-02 with a browser user agent: the only dated-admissions statement on the page is "International Admission — Open to holders of a 3-year or 4-year degree from an international university. Applications will reopen at the start of the next academic year." No dated round is published. The site-wide deadlines ladder cited above is headed "Online Application Deadlines: BBA, MBA, MSc" and does not cover this programme; its dates run 18 Sep 2025 – 9 Jul 2026 plus three offsite-campus dates in Jul–Aug 2026. INTERVIEW CHECKED 2026-09-03, and the 09-02 read above was incomplete: the same page also states, under the programme's recruitment section, "Students who have graduated from a foreign university, regardless of their nationality, can join us via the international admission route, based on their application (and interview if necessary)" — so an interview is expressly reserved rather than excluded. Read from the raw HTML with a browser user agent after two WebFetch reads of this URL returned contradictory answers about the word "interview". The site navigation also carries a standing recruitment call, "Want to Become a Jury Member for GEM's Admission Interviews?", with an Admissions Jury calendar ↗ — Grenoble École de Management
- Grenoble École de Management — Programme Grande École (French page) and Découvrir l'apprentissage (page updated 07/04/2026), both read with a browser user agent. ALTERNANCE CHECKED 2026-09-07 (P44): 'À GEM, l'alternance est possible : en M1+M2 (pour un contrat de 24 mois), en M2 (contrat de 12 mois)'; 'Elle est accessible à toutes et tous, sans limite de place (sous réserve de réussir le concours et d'avoir un contrat signé)'; the Grenoble-or-Paris choice; 'vos frais de scolarité sont pris en charge'; the published track statistics (100% pass, 75% employment, 2.25% contract breakage, 2024 data); and the national rule restated by the school — 'le futur apprenti doit avoir moins de 30 ans à la signature du contrat', with the higher-qualification, disability, business-creation and high-level-athlete exceptions. NEGATIVE RECORDED: no French-language level and no nationality condition is published on either page ↗ — Grenoble École de Management