 Many colleges and universities, again, will require non-English speaking international students to take an English proficiency exam, TOEFL or IELTS. And those colleges and universities will have minimum, generally minimum scores, proficiency levels that they are looking for their students to meet. Now, sometimes college or university who may have an English language program or English language institute on their campus, may be able to accept students who have lower English proficiency because they can offer some English language coursework prior to starting the full academic degree-seeking coursework.