SAT / ACT Scores
Official SAT or ACT test scores are required for international applicants.
UPDATE: For the 2023-24 application cycle, applicants may choose to be test-optional because of the challenges applicants may face in taking standardized testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. This policy change will be reevaluated at the end of the 2023-24 application cycle.
- SAT code: 2050
- ACT code: 3528
Important notes:
- Please instruct the testing agency to report your scores to Bucknell.
- Score reports may also be submitted directly by school officials. However, emailed, faxed and other self-reported scores will be considered unofficial. If admitted, students will need to submit official test results before enrolling.
TOEFL / IELTS / PTE / DET Test Scores
Applicants for whom English is not the first language or whose primary language of instruction for at least three years of secondary school was not English are required to submit TOEFL, IELTS, Pearson English Test (PTE) or Duolingo English Test (DET) scores.
This requirement can be waived by permission; please ask your school counselor or school official to send a written waiver request to admissions@bucknell.edu for consideration.
Minimum Scores
Minimum TOEFL score of 100 on the internet-based exam and 600 on the paper-based exam; minimum IELTS score of 7; minimum PTE score of 68; minimum DET score of 130. Entrance exam results should be submitted by our application deadlines.
Please note that it takes two to four weeks for Bucknell to receive official test scores from the testing agency.
Submitting IELTS Scores Electronically
Below is the exact information applicants should provide to their test centers when requesting scores to be sent to Bucknell University:
Account name: Bucknell University Undergraduate Admissions
Address: 1 Dent Drive
City: Lewisburg
State: PA
ZIP code: 17837