American postgraduate entrance examination. The full name of GRE is GraduateRecordExamination, and the Chinese name is American Postgraduate Entrance Examination, which is applicable to all majors except law and business and sponsored by educational testing service (ETS). GRE is one of the postgraduate entrance examinations in North America. Jointly organized by Harvard, Yale, Columbia and Princeton, 1948 was handed over to the newly established education examination center ETS.