Hi fellow Gmatclubbers,
I decided to prepare a quick reference list with the minimum TOEFL requirements for most popular schools. Hope it will be of some use!
TOEFL score requirements for various schools(work in progress)Notes:1. All requirements are for TOEFL iBT format, unless specified otherwise
2. All information was taken from official schools’ sites.
3. Even if school does not have an official cut-off score, or if this score seems ridiculously low, it is an applicant’s interest to check an average score of the accepted students in order to form a realistic understanding of what is required.
4. Overall, it seems you will be OK with 100 for the vast majority of schools, but you will need closer to at least 110 for the most competitive ones.
| TOEFL Requirements for US Schools |
| School | TOEFL Score | Notes |
| Harvard | 109 | strongly recommended by adcom |
| Stanford | 100 | |
| Wharton | Required | no cut-off score; average is given as 111 |
| MIT | Not Required | may be included if an applicant wishes to do so |
| Chicago Booth | 104 | otherwise ‘admission would be contingent upon meeting the minimum scores or other language requirements’
– info from their site |
| Kellogg | Required | no cut-off score specified. Note that average is 109 (2011) |
| Columbia | Required | no cut-off score specified |
| Tuck | Required | no cut-off score specified |
| Berkeley (Haas) | 68 | note that average given for reference is 113 |
| Michigan (Ross) | 100 | |
| Duke (Fuqua) | Required | no cut-off score specified |
| Darden | 100 | not a strict requirement |
| Yale | 100 | |
| NYU Stern | Required | no cut-off score specified |
| Cornell Johnson | Required | require 600 for old paper-based tests (with 5 in TWE), which corresponds to 100 in new format (with 25 in Writing) |
| UCLA (Anderson) | 87 | they note that you should have a good excuse for anything below 100 |
| CMU (Tepper) | Required | no min score for TOEFL iBT is given, but they specify 600 for old Paper-Based test, so I think it’s 100 for iBT |
| TOEFL Requirements for Top European Schools |
| School | TOEFL Score | Notes |
| IMD | Not Required | TOEFL is not required, but there is general requirement of ‘strong command of spoken and written English’
(evaluated through GMAT, essays and interview I guess) |
| INSEAD | 105 | note that those for whom English is native language, must show knowledge of another language as entry requirement |
| LBS | Required | no specific ‘cut-off’ score is specified. Last year, there was an unofficial recommendation of 109+, but people with lesser scores could get in. |
| IE | 100 | |
| IESE | 100 | Note that IESE requires 100 for its FT MBA and 93 for its Executive MBA |
| HEC | 100 | Alternatively you can present IELTS score of 6.5 or TOIEC score of 850 |
| TOEFL Requirements for UK Schools |
| School | TOEFL Score | Notes |
| Ashridge | 100 | |
| Cambridge (Judge) | 110 | min 25 in each section |
| Cass | 105 | |
| Cranfield | 100 | |
| Manchester | 100 | no individual element must be below 20 |
| Oxford (Said) | 109 | this is new requirement for 2010 |
| Warwick | 105 | |
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More schools to be added soon!
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