# Stern's two-year Full-time MBA Class of 2027 is highlighted in a dedicated feature: “Application Surge, Record GMAT, And A Finance Spike: Inside NYU Stern’s New MBA Class.”

1 School News October 16, 2025 ![Poets and Quants logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_036687.gif?itok=YuUEYfSP)>

Excerpt from [Poets&Quants](https://poetsandquants.com/2025/10/16/application-surge-record-gmat-and-a-finance-spike-inside-nyu-sterns-new-mba-class/?pq-category=admissions&pq-category-2=class-profiles-demographics) — “Applications to NYU Stern School of Business’s full-time MBA program jumped to nearly 5,000 for the Class of 2027 — a 60% increase from just two years ago. The larger pool helped push the class GMAT average to a school record and allowed Stern to actually increase its international population, bucking the declines reported at many U.S. MBA programs this fall.”

Learn more about the two-year [Full-time MBA Program](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/full-time-mba).

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