A list of the top 50 universities in the United States that generally accept TOEFL scores as part of their admissions process.
- Harvard University
- Stanford University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- University of Chicago
- Columbia University
- Princeton University
- Yale University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Northwestern University
- Duke University
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of California, Berkeley
- Cornell University
- University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
- University of Washington
- New York University (NYU)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of California, Davis
- University of Southern California (USC)
- Carnegie Mellon University
- University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)
- Brown University
- University of California, Irvine (UCI)
- Vanderbilt University
- Rice University
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Boston University
- University of Virginia
- University of Rochester
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Florida
- University of Notre Dame
- University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC)
- University of Arizona
- Case Western Reserve University
- University of Miami
- University of California, Riverside
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Tufts University