TOEFL TOEFL:Overall 100 ;Reading 23;Listening 22;Writing 22 ;Speaking 20 All applicants can be considered for a place prior to providing any English language test results. IELTS/TOEFL results are not an essential part of the application form and you do not need to have already taken them to apply. The selectors will not take language test results into consideration when deciding whether or not to recommend an offer of admission.Please note that degrees taken at an overseas campus of an English speaking institution in a non majority English speaking country (eg Chinese campuses of UK institutions) do not meet our English language requirements and you will be required to supply a test score. Similarly, 2+2 undergraduate degrees, where less than three years has been spent in a majority English-speaking country, will not meet our English language requirments. IELTS If you have not taken a test by the time you apply, your application can still be considered without it, but any offer will be conditional on the required score. We recommend that you take the IELTS (International English Language Testing System) or LSE Language Centre's 5 or 10 week presessional programmes. If you are taking a Cambridge test rather than the IELTS, we prefer the Advanced or Proficiency tests.All applicants can be considered for a place prior to providing any English language test results. IELTS/TOEFL results are not an essential part of the application form and you do not need to have already taken them to apply. The selectors will not take language test results into consideration when deciding whether or not to recommend an offer of admission.Please note that degrees taken at an overseas campus of an English speaking institution in a non majority English speaking country (eg Chinese campuses of UK institutions) do not meet our English language requirements and you will be required to supply a test score. Similarly, 2+2 undergraduate degrees, where less than three years has been spent in a majority English-speaking country, will not meet our English language requirments. GRE Please remember that it is your responsibility to ensure that your application is complete, including all references, the transcript and the fee, and where applicable GRE/GMAT scores and your research proposal. Please be aware that all documents are non-returnable.If GRE or GMAT scores are required by your chosen programme(s) it is essential that you supply them at the time you apply. You should include your test scores in the relevant section of the application form, stating the percentile and marks obtained for all three sections of the test. The test scores should be less than five years old on 1 October 2018. The GRE/GMAT is often a vital deciding factor so you will not be able to submit your application without it if your programme requires it.The GRE test can be taken online and also as a paper based exam. The test is about 3 hours and 45 minutes long and there are six sections; one analytical (with two separately timed writing tasks), two verbal reasoning sections, one unscored task (which will appear at random sometime during the test) and one unscored research task.You can register and pay online, but will have to go to a test centre to complete the exam. In the USA the test is $140 whilst outside the USA the GRE costs from $170 to $175. Once you have taken the test it takes 15 days for GRE to reach your chosen institutions. Institutions are able to view your GRE results for the past five years. GMAT Please remember that it is your responsibility to ensure that your application is complete, including all references, the transcript and the fee, and where applicable GRE/GMAT scores and your research proposal. Please be aware that all documents are non-returnable.If GRE or GMAT scores are required by your chosen programme(s) it is essential that you supply them at the time you apply. You should include your test scores in the relevant section of the application form, stating the percentile and marks obtained for all three sections of the test. The test scores should be less than five years old on 1 October 2018. The GRE/GMAT is often a vital deciding factor so you will not be able to submit your application without it if your programme requires it.The GMAT test is computer based and tests verbal, numerical, analytical and written skills and lasts three and a half hours. GMAT is a computer adaptive test where the difficulty of each question will be determined by the answer you gave to a previous question. The GMAT is $250 worldwide, and can be taken only once every 31 days and no more than 5 times during one year. An unofficial score is available straight after the test, and the official score will be sent by email or post 20 days after the test.