Institution’s Name 

World Ranking

Minimum IELTS Cut Off (Undergraduate Courses)

Minimum IELTS Cut Off (Postgraduate Courses)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

4

7

7

California Institute of Technology

5

7

7

Harvard University

6

7

7

Princeton University

7

Reach out to the admissions office

7

Yale University

8

7

7

University of Chicago

10

7

7

University of Pennsylvania

12

7

7

Johns Hopkins University

12

7

7

University of California, Berkeley

15

7

7

Columbia University

16

7

7

University of California, Los Angeles

17

7

7

Duke University

18

7

7

Cornell University

19

7

7.5

Carnegie Mellon University

24

7.5

7.5

Northwestern University

25

7.5

7.5

New York University

27

7.5

7.5

University of Washington

28

7

7

University of California, San Diego

30

7

7

The University of Texas at Austin

39

6.5

6.5

University of Wisconsin-Madison

43

6.5

7

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

50

6.5

6.5

University of California, Santa Barbara

52

7

7

Brown University

53

8

7

Washington University in St Louis

54

7

7

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

56

7

7

University of California, Davis

59

7

7

Purdue University

64

6.5

6.5

University of Southern California

66

6.5

6.5

University of Minnesota

71

6.5

6.5

Ohio State University

71

6.5

7

Boston University

74

7

7

Pennsylvania State University

81

6.5

6.5

University of Maryland, College Park

82

7

7

Rice University

86

7

7

Michigan State University

93

6.5

6.5

The University of California. Irvine

96

7

7

Dartmouth College

99

7

7

University of Virginia

107

7

7

Georgetown University

109

7

7

University of Pittsburgh

110

6.5

6.5

Vanderbilt University

121

6.5

7

Arizona State University

123

6

7

Case Western Reserve University

132

6.5

6.5

Indiana University

146

6.5

6.5

Tufts University

152

7

7

University of Florida

156

6

6.5

University of Arizona

159

6.5

7

University of Rochester

163

7

Reach out to the institution

University of California, Santa Cruz

167

7

7

Texas A&M University

171

6

6

University of Notre Dame

173

7

7

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

179

5.5

6.5

Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

176

6

6

Northeastern University

184

7.5

7