TOEFL Score Requirements for Most Popular Schools

greenoak · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:16 am

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!

bb · **Posted:** Thu Jun 25, 2009 7:55 am

Thank you!!!
This is great.

P.S. I added a bit of formatting to post it as a table - feel free to remove if you don't like it.

david78 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 30, 2009 5:57 pm

Thank you greenoak for the post. You were doing a great job!

However, for Anderson UCLA. I've found conflict requirements.

From Anderson school, the minimum score is 100 (iBT)

But from UCLA graduate school, the requirement is based on sub scores and total score as well. That really seems more strict.

Writing: 25
Speaking: 24
Reading: 21
Listening: 17
Total minimum passing score: 87

Did you notice that?

walker · **Posted:** Fri Jul 31, 2009 2:11 pm

Great post!
+1

GODSPEED · **Posted:** Wed Aug 19, 2009 9:08 pm

Good post...+1

I scored 104 on my TOEFL iBT, took the test in Nov'08, wanted to apply to SAID. Now this new guideline -> so it means i have to retake or skip SAID?

Who cares they'll gonna miss me!!! :wink:

Cheers!

arammug · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:57 am

Good Post +1

It seems I qualify for all :D

arammug · **Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 10:59 am

GODSPEED wrote:

Good post...+1

I scored 104 on my TOEFL iBT, took the test in Nov'08, wanted to apply to SAID. Now this new guideline -> so it means i have to retake or skip SAID?

Who cares they'll gonna miss me!!! :wink:

Cheers!

Yes they are pretty tough on TOEFL. My friend had to retake it to get 113 after getting 105 on his first attempt. So retake or skip it.

sonzobros · **Posted:** Thu Oct 01, 2009 3:57 pm

Reading: 27
Listening: 29
Speaking:23
Writing:24

Score: 103
The minimum for me was 100 so I'm OK.

eresh · **Posted:** Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:01 pm

Good one!
Though I felt like skipping the test even though I am an international student.

manojgmat · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 11:07 pm

Grt info

kairoshan · **Posted:** Mon Oct 26, 2009 5:01 am

Nice post!

PTK · **Posted:** Sun May 09, 2010 4:52 am

to bb:

You may add IE Business School, Spain, theier requirement is also 100.

bb · **Posted:** Sun May 09, 2010 2:51 pm

Pkit wrote:

to bb:

You may add IE Business School, Spain, theier requirement is also 100.

Thank you. Done.

PTK · **Posted:** Sun May 09, 2010 8:32 pm

bb wrote:

Pkit wrote:

to bb:

You may add IE Business School, Spain, theier requirement is also 100.

Thank you. Done.

thanks )

iambroke · **Posted:** Fri May 21, 2010 2:16 pm

nice info

Cielo · **Posted:** Tue Jun 01, 2010 3:12 am

It seems Berkeley wants a lower admittance rate :-D

atanasovd · **Posted:** Wed Jun 16, 2010 4:10 pm

hey, i have a question, maybe it's off the topic but, i have to take either the CPE Cambridge test or the TOEFL for the Rotterdam School of Business, Any suggestion on these tests? which one is better to take.

thanks

drdorian · **Posted:** Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:42 pm

Is it possible to be admitted to Columbia, Kellogg, NYU Stern, Duke which have no cut-off score with the score - 98? (23, 28, 22, 25)?

Pavle · **Posted:** Fri Aug 27, 2010 2:42 am

Thank you I found it very useful!!

resh · **Posted:** Mon Aug 30, 2010 9:42 am

Thanks for this post.

Just a query - does having a high Toefl score really make a difference?
For eg. Suppose the cut off and average class profile is 100 for Toefl iBT, does having a 117 really help?

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