Homewood Graduate Affairs and Admissions Office TOEFL/IELTS Policy
(Part A) The Graduate Affairs and Admissions Office would waive the
TOEFL/IELTS for any applicants whose citizenship is from any of the countries
below:
Countries with English as an Official Language/Language of Instruction in Higher Education
Anguilla
Ireland, Northern
Singapore
Antigua and Barbuda
Ireland, Republic of
Solomon Islands
Australia
Jamaica
South Africa
Bahamas
Kenya
Swaziland
Barbados
Lesotho
Tanzania
Belize
Liberia
Tonga
Bermuda
Malawi
Trinidad and Tobago
Botswana
Malta
Turks and Caicos Islands
British Virgin Islands
Mauritius
Uganda
Cameroon
Montserrat
United Kingdom
Canada (except Quebec)
Namibia
Vanuatu
Cayman Islands
New Zealand
Wales
Dominica
Nigeria
Zambia
England
Papua New Guinea
Zimbabwe
Fiji
St. Kitts and Nevis
Gambia
St. Lucia
Ghana
St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Gibraltar
Scotland
Grenada
Seychelles
Guyana
Sierra Leone
Participating departments in this policy:
Participating Departments:
Krieger School of Arts and Sciences:
Whiting School of Engineering:
Biology
Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Classics
Biomedical Engineering (Master’s)
Cognitive Science
Biomedical Engineering - CIBD (Master’s)
English
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Economics (not requiring it for US
Civil Engineering
citizens, and granting it for Foreigners
Computer Science
who have had a year or more of study
Electrical and Computer Engineering
and work in the US)
Engineering Management (Master’s)
German and Romance Languages
Geography and Environmental Engineering
History
Information Security Institute (Master’s)
History of Science
Materials Science and Engineering
History of Art
Mechanical Engineering
Math
Political Science
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Public Policy (Those earning a degree
from the US only)
Physics and Astronomy
Sociology
Writing Seminars
Political Science (language of instruction
is English)
Robotics
(Part B) Departments will waive the IELTS/TOEFL for any applicant with these
qualifications:
(a) Received a bachelor's degree or master's degree from an institution in the United States, England or Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, Barbados, Bahamas, and Singapore.
(b) or is about to complete his/her bachelor's/master's degree at an institution in any country for which English is
the official language.