{"id":2348,"date":"2015-10-28T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:44:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:44:57","slug":"are-you-from-a-toefl-exempt-country-its-more-likely-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magoosh.com\/toefl\/are-you-from-a-toefl-exempt-country-its-more-likely-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You From a TOEFL-Exempt Country? It\u2019s More Likely Than You Think!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, I did a post on universities that require South Africans to take the TOEFL<\/a>, and universities that let South Africans skip the exam. During my research for that blog post, I got to look at a lot of lists of TOEFL exempt countries. And I was reminded of just how many countries outside of the \u201cBig Six\u201d (Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, the US and Canada) are exempt from the TOEFL.<\/p>\n

Outside of the major native English countries, exemptions often come with conditions. For example, you may need to prove English language schooling or demonstrate in some other way that English is your native language.<\/p>\n

Additionally, the list of exempt countries is not universal<\/em>\u2014every campus makes different choices about which nationalities need to take the TOEFL and which don\u2019t. However, there are a lot of countries that turn up on the \u201cTOEFL exempt\u201d lists frequently. For this post, I\u2019ve looked up the TOEFL exempt countries list for 21 different American universities. Below is a complete list of the countries that appear on more than one of the exemption lists. Next to each country, I have noted how many universities (out of 21) allow students from that country to skip the TOEFL. At the end of the post, you\u2019ll also see the names of the 21 universities I surveyed.<\/p>\n

TOEFL exempt nations, listed by 21 American Universities:<\/h2>\n