IELTS Score For USA | Required IELTS Scores at USA Universities (2024)

Here’s taking a closer look at the Times Higher Education World Rankings and minimum IELTS score for USA’s leading institutions.

Institution’s Name	World University Ranking	Minimum IELTS Cut Off (Undergraduate Courses)	Minimum IELTS Cut Off (Postgraduate Courses)
California Institute of Technology	2	7	7
Harvard University	2	7	7
Stanford University	4	Reach out to the admissions office	Reach out to the admissions office
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	5	7	7
Princeton University	7	Reach out to the admissions office	7
University of California, Berkeley	8	7	7
Yale University	9	7	7
The University of Chicago	10	7	7
Columbia University	11	7	7
University of Pennsylvania	13	7	7
Johns Hopkins University	13	7	7
University of California, Los Angeles	20	7	7
Cornell University	22	7	7.5
Duke University	23	7	7
University of Michigan	24	7	7
Northwestern University	24	7.5	7.5
New York University	26	7.5	7.5
Carneige Mellon University	28	7.5	7.5
University of Washington	29	7	7
University of California, San Diego	34	7	7
Georgia Institute of Technology	45	Reach out to the institution	Reach out to the institution
The University of Texas at Austin	47	6.5	6.5
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	48	6.5	6.5
Washington University in St Louis	51	7	7
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	52	7	7
University of Wisconsin-Madison	58	6.5	7
Boston University	62	7	7
University of Southern California	63	6.5	6.5
Brown University	64	8	7
University of California, Davis	67	7	7
University of California, Santa Barbara	68	7	7
Emory University	82	Reach out to the institution	Reach out to the institution
Ohio State University (main campus)	85	6.5	7
University of Minnesota	86	6.5	6.5
University of Maryland, College Park	93	7	7
Michigan State University	93	6.5	6.5
The University of California. Irvine	98	7	7
Dartmouth College	99	7	7
Purdue University West Lafayette	105	6.5	6.5
Vanderbilt University	113	6.5	7
Pennsylvania State University	119	6.5	6.5
Case Western Reserve University	126	6.5	6.5
University of Virginia (main campus)	127	7	7
Georgetown University	130	7	7
Arizona State University	132	6	7
Rice University	136	7	7
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh campus	140	6.5	6.5
University of Rochester	142	7	Reach out to the institution
University of Arizona	150	6.5	7
University of Florida	154	6	6.5
Indiana University	167	6.5	6.5
Northeastern University	168	7.5	7
Tufts University	172	7	7
University of Notre Dame	183	7	7
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey	190	6	6
Texas A&M University	193	6	6
University of California, Santa Cruz	201-250	7	7

Take a closer look at theIELTS score required for USA universities before applying to any of them. This will help you finalize institutions as per your eligibility. At the same time, those taking the IELTS examination soon will know about the ideal targeted score for gaining admission into leading universities.