The TOEFL Test Is the Choice of Top 100 Universities Worldwide

PRINCETON, NJ - As students plan to study abroad, many of them will apply to the top 100 universities around the world, identified recently on the popular www.topuniversities.com website. When students do apply, they will want to take ETS's TOEFL(R) (Test of English as a Foreign Language(TM)) test, because all of these top institutions and thousands more worldwide accept this highly respected and most widely accepted English-language admissions test.

Top-ranked universities including Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Duke, the Imperial College of London and the University of Hong Kong, use the TOEFL test as part of the admissions process to determine whether nonnative, English-speaking students have the language skills to succeed.

"While all 4,300 degree-awarding colleges and universities in the United States recognize TOEFL scores for admission, the test is an equally essential resource for admissions officers at universities in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, Korea and China," explains Paul A. Ramsey, Senior Vice President of ETS's Global Division. "From humble beginnings four decades ago, the TOEFL test is now used by more than 6,000 universities in 110 countries and is the standard by which all English-language examinations are measured."

"TOEFL continues to grow in influence among universities around the world. Over the past two years, more than 850 additional universities and colleges have joined the family of TOEFL score users because of the access it provides to the global pool of talented international students," says Eileen Tyson, ETS Global's Director of Client Relations. "They know they can trust TOEFL scores, and they appreciate the visibility their institutions are given to the nearly one million international students who registered to take the test in 2007."

TOEFL continues to grow its worldwide presence. ETS expanded its Internet testing network to more than 4,300 centers around the globe, which is by far the most extensive network in the world -- more than three times the number of centers than any other English proficiency test.