Is the TOEFL required of all international students?
The Graduate School requires any international student whose native language is not English to demonstrate English proficiency in one of two ways: An applicant may 1) submit recent, i.e., from the past two years, scores of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or, 2) take the English Placement Test administered by the American Language Program at Columbia. (Call 212-854-3584 for an appointment.) International students who have received an undergraduate (BA) degree from an institution in which English was the medium of instruction, do not have to submit TOEFL scores.
