What IELTS score do you need for NTNU?

You need no test with 60 ECTS of English-taught study at a university in Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK or the USA, or in a Nordic country; a degree majoring in English; or English at upper secondary level from those six countries.

A bachelor's taught in English also counts if it is from Botswana, Eswatini, Ethiopia, the Philippines, Jamaica, Gambia, Ghana, Cameroon, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Zambia or Zimbabwe. NTNU says this country exemption is under review and may change for 2026-2027 admission. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal are not on the list.

Applicants with a bachelor's from Pakistan must also have their transcripts and diplomas stamped by HEC before uploading them.

Language documentation must be uploaded by the application deadline itself: if your deadline is 1 December, so is the deadline for your English proof. Erasmus Mundus and Joint Nordic (N5T) master's set their own English requirements.

Bachelor's and other programmes taught in Norwegian use NTNU's general admission requirements, which ask Norwegian plus English at a lower level (for example IELTS 5.0 or PTE 51).

Requirements vary by programme and change between admissions cycles. The score that binds you is the one on your NTNU programme page and in your offer, so check it there before you book a test.