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Rules checked 26 September 2026

Do your IELTS bands meet the course requirement?

Pick a named course or regulator and enter your four bands. See the overall and per-skill minimums from its own page, your gap in each skill, and which IELTS tests it accepts.

1. The course or route

2. Your four bands

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The requirement

Choose a course. You will see its overall and per-skill IELTS minimums, the test types it accepts, and your gap in each skill.

Close the gap in the skill that is short.

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Every requirement in the checker

23 courses and routes, each from the university's or regulator's own page. We add a course only when its page gives the IELTS rule or places the course in a published band.

Course or routeIELTS requirement
University of Oxford
All undergraduate courses		7.5 overall, minimum 7.0 per component Source
University of Cambridge
All undergraduate courses		normally a minimum overall grade of 7.5, usually with 7.0 or above in each element Source
London School of Economics (LSE)
All undergraduate programmes		7.0 overall and 7.0 in each component (in one exam sitting only) Source
Imperial College London
Computing BEng		Standard level: 6.5 overall (minimum 6.0 in all elements) Source
Imperial College London
Mathematics BSc		Higher level: 7.0 overall (minimum 6.5 in all elements) Source
Imperial College London
Medicine MBBS		Higher level: 7.0 overall (minimum 6.5 in all elements) Source
King's College London
Law LLB		Band B: 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in each skill Source
King's College London
English BA		Band B: 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in each skill Source
King's College London
Computer Science BSc		Band D: 6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in each skill Source
University of Manchester
Computer Science BSc		IELTS 6.5 overall, with no subskill below 6.5 Source
University of Manchester
Economics BSc		IELTS 6.5 overall with no lower than 6 in any component Source
University of Manchester
Law LLB		IELTS 7 with a minimum 6.5 in each subtest Source
University of Manchester
English Literature BA		IELTS Academic or IELTS UKVI 7.0 overall Source
University of Manchester
Medicine MBChB (5 years)		A minimum average score of 7.0 and with not less than 6.5 in any one component taken at the same sitting Source
University of Manchester
Psychology BSc		IELTS 7.0 overall with a minimum of 6.5 in each component Source
University of Manchester
Pharmacy MPharm		IELTS Academic or IELTS UKVI grade 7 (with no component less than 6.5) Source
University of Leeds
Undergraduate degrees (university minimum)		6.0 overall with no less than 5.5 in each component Source
University of Warwick
Postgraduate course in Band A		Overall 6.5 and minimum component scores not below 6.0 Source
University of Warwick
Postgraduate course in Band B		Overall 7.0 and minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above Source
University of Warwick
Postgraduate course in Band C		Overall 7.5 and minimum component scores of two at 6.5/7.0 and the rest at 7.5 or above Source
University of Warwick
Postgraduate course in Band D		Overall 8.0 and minimum component scores of two at 7.0/7.5 and the rest at 8.0 or above Source
General Medical Council (GMC)
Doctors: PLAB and registration		At least 7.0 in each testing area and an overall score of at least 7.5, in the same test Source
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Nurses and midwives: joining the register		At least 7 for reading, listening and speaking, and at least 6.5 for writing Source

Questions

What IELTS score do Oxford and Cambridge ask for?

Oxford asks for 7.5 overall with at least 7.0 in each component, all from the same session, and does not accept IELTS Online. Cambridge says it normally asks for 7.5 overall, usually with 7.0 or above in each element.

What IELTS score does King's College London need for Law or English?

King's puts The Dickson Poon School of Law and the Faculty of Arts & Humanities in Band B: 7.0 overall with at least 6.5 in each skill, all from one test. Computer Science, in the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, is Band D: 6.5 overall with 6.0 in each skill.

What does "two components at 6.0 or 6.5 and the rest at 7.0" mean?

That is Warwick's postgraduate Band B. You need 7.0 overall; up to two skills may be 6.0 or 6.5 as long as the other two are 7.0 or higher. No skill may be below 6.0. The checker applies this rule exactly.

Does the NMC need an overall IELTS band?

No. The NMC asks for at least 7 in Listening, Reading and Speaking and at least 6.5 in Writing, with no overall band. The GMC asks for 7.5 overall with at least 7.0 in each skill.

Is a university minimum the same as my course requirement?

Not always. Leeds, for example, publishes a 6.0 undergraduate minimum but says some courses ask for more. The checker marks these rows as minimums; your course page and your offer letter decide.

One skill short? See what a One Skill Retake would need.

Sources

Every requirement links to the page it came from. If a page changes, the page wins.