United States · quoted from the university
UCLA: the TOEFL® scores it publishes
This university has published a requirement on the official 1–6 band scale, so an applicant testing today can check their own report against it.
Every number below is followed by the sentence it was read from, the page it is on, and the day we read it. Nothing on this page is converted, averaged, or filled in from another source — where UCLA publishes no number, this page publishes none either.
Graduate Division
Official 1–6 bands — tests taken on or after 21 Jan 2026
Exams taken on or after January 21, 2026
Minimum
- Overall
- 4.5
“Minimum overall score on TOEFL iBT: 87 (for exams taken before January 21, 2026) or 4.5 (for exams taken on or after January 21, 2026).”
UCLA Graduate Division, read 2026-08-12
Legacy 0–120 scale — tests taken before 21 Jan 2026
Exams taken before January 21, 2026
Minimum
- Overall
- 87
“Minimum overall score on TOEFL iBT: 87 (for exams taken before January 21, 2026) or 4.5 (for exams taken on or after January 21, 2026).”
UCLA Graduate Division, read 2026-08-12
Official 1–6 bands — tests taken on or after 21 Jan 2026
Admitted applicants — below this, the UCLA ESLPE placement examination is required on arrival
Threshold for a further requirement
- Overall
- 5
“If you are an admitted applicant whose overall score on the TOEFL iBT is less than 100 (for exams taken before January 21, 2026) or 5 (for exams taken on or after January 21, 2026) or whose overall band score on IELTS Academic is less than 7.5, you must, upon arrival at UCLA, take the UCLA English as a Second Language Placement Examination (ESLPE).”
UCLA Graduate Division, read 2026-08-12
Also on that page
“Note that these minimum scores are higher than those needed for admission to UCLA.”
Reach120: UCLA is describing the ESLPE threshold, not the admission bar: clearing admission does not clear this.
Everything above is UCLA Graduate Division’s own page, read 2026-08-12. Requirements change without notice — read it yourself before you book a test.
Before you use these numbers
- A university-level minimum is a floor, not an offer. Several of the pages in this dataset say in their own words that individual programmes require more.
- Which row applies to you depends on your test date, not on today’s date. Scores on the old scale stay valid for two years, so both rows can be live at once.
- Admissions pages change without notice and this one is a copy. The link beside each quote is the thing that decides your application.
Oldest source reading on this page: 2026-08-12. All the universities we have read. TOEFL is a registered trademark of ETS. Reach120 is not affiliated with ETS, and neither ETS nor UCLA has endorsed this page.