What are minimum TOEFL requirements?
Friday, February 5th, 2010Many international students wonder, what is the minimum TOEFL score required to gain entrance into a U.S. university?
This is a complicated question, because each university in the U.S. will have different requirements. What’s more, each university may have two different requirements: one for students who will enter directly into the university; and another for students who will enter through a pre-academic ESL program. Finally, this question is complicated by the fact that there are three different kind of TOEFL scores – for the Computer Based TOEFL (CBT), the Internet Based TOEFL (IBT), and the paper-based TOEFL.
Confused yet? A number of sites (such as this one) give a good but brief overview of the required scores for entry into a U.S. university. ETS (the owner of TOEFL) gives the best summary of minimum scores here.
As you can see from the ETS site, the minimum requirements vary widely from university to university. One thing is for certain, though: you will almost certainly need to take the TOEFL and do reasonably well in order to get into a good U.S. university. So get studying!
