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Language Requirements

  1. Admissions
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English Placement Exemption Criteria

Applicants who satisfy one or more of the following criteria qualify for an exemption:

  • Students who spent the last four consecutive years of their secondary school in a country where the official language is English and the language of instruction in their secondary school is English.
  • Students who have completed College Board Advanced Placement tests (English Language and Composition) course with grades 4 and above may be exempted and granted transfer credits.
  • Successful completion of one or more non-remedial, university-level English courses.
  • Successful completion of English-medium secondary school coursework and examinations that qualify for advanced placement, including the International Baccalaureate diploma program.

TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores are required of an applicant who does not attend an English-language university in an English-speaking country.

Applicants not exempted must submit official test results from the TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo. Tests must be completed no more than two years prior to the first day of the semester applied for.

English Placement Levels

The University determines English-language placement using applicants’ highest score on the TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo. AUC may offer the accepted applicants who do not qualify for rhetoric and composition the opportunity to enroll in AUC’s Intensive English Program (IEP) or Academic English for the Liberal Arts (ELA). Both IEP and ELA serve as the University’s bridge courses to the Department of Rhetoric and Composition. IEP students must complete the program within a time period not to exceed two full semesters and a summer session. ELA students also must complete their coursework in a period not to exceed two full semesters and a summer session.