Virtually every credible school in the U.S. requires international students to take the TOEFL exam, which stands for Test of English as a Foreign Language. This exam measures the student’s ability to communicate in English, as necessary to understand, read, speak and write in the language in which your courses will be taught.
The TOEFL exam is administered 30-40 times a year at locations around the world. According to their website, the TOEFL is the most widely respect English-language test in the world, recognized by more than 9,000 colleges, universities and agencies in more than 130 countries