International Undergraduate Admissions
English Language Requirement
Undergraduate Applicants (BA, BS, BSB, BFA)
New undergraduate and transfer applicants are not required to submit a TOEFL score report with the application for admission. You may be admitted as an undergraduate student with any level of English proficiency.
Graduate Admission Applicants (MA, MEd, MS, PhD)
You must submit a TOEFL score report with your application.
Please write to your department for more information.
You may apply directly to the Applied English Center (AEC) for English language study. For information about full-time English language study, contact the AEC.
On-Campus English Screening
- As a new international student from abroad or a domestic student whose first language is not English, you must check
in with the Applied English Center (AEC) for English screening whenyou arrive at the university. If you have a recent
TOEFL or IELTS score report (within the past two years), you may apply to be waived from AEC English Proficiency Test.
Undergraduate students: You may apply to be waived from the AEC English Proficiency Test if you have a recent paper-based TOEFL score report with section scores of 57 or higher and 4.5 or higher on the Test of Written English (TWE); the computer-based test (CBT) section scores of 23 or higher and 4.5 or higher on the essay; or the internet-based test (iBT) section scores of 23 or higher. Please go to the Applied EnglishCenter office before enrollment to receive the necessary documents.
Graduate students: You may apply to be waived from the AEC English Proficiency Test if you have a recent TOEFL score report with section scores of 57 or higher on the paper-based test and 5.0 or higher on the Test of Written English (TWE) or if you have section scores of 23 or higher and an essay rating of 5.0 or higher on the computer-based test. Please go to the Applied English Center office before enrollment to receive the necessary documents. - If you have a recent IELTS score report (within the past two years) for the academic format of the IELTS, with each part 6.0 or higher, and with a total score of 6.5 or higher, you may apply to be waived from the AEC English Proficiency Test.
- Previous degree: If you have a B.A., B.S., M.A., or M.S. degree earned in residence from an accredited U.S. college or university, or a college or university in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, an English-speaking province of Canada, or an English-speaking Caribbean country, you do not need to take the AEC English Proficiency Test. Please go to the Applied English Center office before enrollment to receive the necessary documents. This does not apply to degrees earned online. (Some graduate programs: If you are a native speaker of English from the United Kingdom, Australia,New Zealand, Ireland, an English-speaking province of Canada, or an English-speaking Caribbean country, you will not be required to take the AEC English Proficiency Test.)
- Bilingual students: If you have spoken two languages (including English) since your early childhood and have attended many years of schooling in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, an English-speaking province of Canada, or an English-speaking Caribbean country, you are probably bilingual. If that is the case, you will not be required to take the AEC English Proficiency Test. Please go the Applied English Center before enrollment for your English proficiency to be verified.
- All other students who are non-native speakers of English: You will be required to take the AEC Proficiency Test when you arrive. If you pass the English language test, you may enroll full-time in university academic courses. If you do not pass the English language test, you will be required to enroll in one or more courses in English as a second language. In most semesters, approximately 70% of all undergraduate students and 95% of all graduate students who are enrolled in AEC courses are also taking university courses at the same time. The number of university courses you may take depends on how many sections of the English test you pass.
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