TOEFL Prep Info

Why Manhattan Review is the Best TOEFL Prep Option Available

Manhattan Review is an international educational services company that has been providing high-quality services for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) since 1999. Our comprehensive, effective, and flexible TOEFL prep offerings include on-site prep courses, online classes, private tutoring, and practice tests. Manhattan Review is the industry's most experienced provider of TOEFL services for the international student community, and we teach prep courses and offer tutoring in a number of major cities in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia. Our clients have come to us from a wide variety of national origins and native languages, and we have helped tens of thousands of students improve their TOEFL scores and academic English.

Countless Manhattan Review students have met the TOEFL sectional and composite score requirements for undergraduate and graduate programs at the best universities in the English-speaking world. Our TOEFL clients have studied at and graduated from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, MIT, King's College, the University of Edinburgh, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, McGill, the University of Toronto, Australian National University, the University of Melbourne, and many other world-class institutions. After finishing their degree programs, our past TOEFL students have accepted jobs at Fortune 500 companies in the United States, as well as at important businesses in cities around the world, including government agencies, law firms, philanthropic organizations, and institutions for scientific research. They've become successful professionals in a diverse array of fields, from the liberal arts and sciences to politics and the legal profession.

Manhattan Review's TOEFL instruction includes thorough coverage of all TOEFL sections (reading, writing, listening, and speaking). Our students learn how to build the English-language skills most relevant to success on the test and in college coursework. We use our own innovative methods of TOEFL teaching, which emphasize higher-order thinking skills and creative approaches to the development of TOEFL competencies. Manhattan Review's course materials have been written by career educators with many years of experience teaching and researching the TOEFL. In addition to mastering content, our students also learn valuable test-taking strategies, including how to most effectively manage testing time and how to make the most favorable guesses when necessary. Manhattan Review's students receive all of the instruction and support needed to reach their most optimistic TOEFL and English-language goals.

Best-in-class TOEFL Course Instructors and Tutors

Manhattan Review only hires the best available TOEFL educators in every city we serve. Successful applicants for open teaching positions are characterized by strong academic credentials, significant amounts of teaching experience, high performance on standardized tests, dedication to teaching, and engaging styles of instruction. New hires are comprehensively trained in Manhattan Review's course syllabi, course materials, and methods of teaching TOEFL prep. Our classroom instructors, online teachers, and private tutors have proven records of producing favorable test score outcomes for many different types of learners at every level of English language ability. Our teachers are familiar with higher education in the English-speaking world, and they also understand the unique learning needs of students in their specific communities. Students preparing for the TOEFL cannot find a more reliable and effective group of instructors.

History of Manhattan Review

Manhattan Review was founded at Columbia University in 1999 by Joern Meissner, who was then a doctoral student and teaching assistant at the Business School. Meissner's teaching style, which featured accessible explanations of complex ideas, was appealing to many students, who encouraged him to apply his instructional methods to preparation courses for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), the standardized entrance exam for graduate business school. Meissner's efforts in this area would become Manhattan Review's first GMAT prep courses, which included simplified approaches to GMAT content that were far superior to the GMAT instruction offered by traditional test prep companies.

Within a few years, Meissner would finish his doctorate at Columbia and embark on a successful academic career while building Manhattan Review into an international business. Our company now offers prep courses, private tutoring, and practice tests for the GMAT, GRE, LSAT, SAT, ACT, and TOEFL in dozens of cities around the world. Manhattan Review has helped students in North American, European, Asian, Latin American, and African countries get accepted to their preferred undergraduate or graduate degree programs, and many of our former clients are now accomplished professionals working for organizations around the world.