Can I send my PTE score to multiple universities for free?

Yes, and there is no catch. Through your myPTE account you can send your score report to as many institutions as you like, free of charge, at any point during that report's two-year validity. There is no per-report fee — which is the part that surprises almost everyone coming from IELTS or TOEFL, where extra copies cost money.

How the sending actually works

Log in to myPTE, open the score report you want to send, and search for institutions by name. The portal has you select them in batches — up to seven institutions at once — and then you repeat the process for the rest. That batch size is a submission limit, not a limit on how many institutions you can ever send to. You can also come back weeks later and send the same report to a university you hadn't decided on yet.

Search by the institution's name rather than the faculty or campus, and read the results carefully: large universities often appear as several separate entries. If yours genuinely isn't listed, contact Pearson support — some institutions instead ask applicants to supply the score report code so they can look the result up themselves.

Why this feels wrong if you've done IELTS or TOEFL

TOEFL gives you a small number of free recipients nominated at booking and charges for each additional report after that. IELTS providers typically cap free Test Report Form copies and add courier costs on top. PTE delivery is electronic and unlimited, so the test fee is the whole cost. Budget for the sitting, not for the sending.

Visa and immigration bodies are a separate path

Australia's Department of Home Affairs and Immigration New Zealand can receive scores automatically if you tick that option when booking your test — that is set at booking, not afterwards in the portal.

For UK visa and Canadian IRCC applications you generally don't send a report at all; you quote the unique reference number printed on your score report and the authority verifies it. Check which Pearson test the route needs before you book, though. IRCC accepts PTE Core, whose report carries an IRCC Unique Reference Number — Pearson lists score sending to IRCC as PTE Core only, and a standard PTE Academic report is not accepted for it. For the UK, PTE Academic UKVI carries the SELT Unique Reference Number and is the test Pearson lists for work visas and below-degree-level study; standard PTE Academic is still the usual route for degree-level study at a UK university, which assesses your English itself. Requirements here change, so confirm the current process on the official Pearson and immigration guidance for the country you're applying to.

Two things worth doing before you send

Check the expiry date first. Sending is free, but a report that lapses mid-application is useless to the university, and many admissions offices want the score valid at the point of assessment, not just at the point you sent it.

Send early. Matching an incoming electronic report to your application file is a manual step at some universities and can take several working days. And don't email a PDF as a substitute — institutions verify electronically against Pearson's system, so a PDF you send yourself usually doesn't count as proof.

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