Postgraduate

If you're looking to study a postgraduate degree with us and you are of majority English speaking nationality or if you have completed a qualification that's equivalent to a UK bachelor's degree, as conferred by the UK's National Academic Recognition Information Centre (UK NARIC), in a majority English speaking country (including the UK and Ireland), you will not be asked to provide an English language qualification – however, confirmation may be requested that teaching during the degree was undertaken in English. 

If you aren't of majority English speaking nationality, as deemed by the UK Home Office, you will be required to take a Secure English Language Test (SELT) in order to study a postgraduate (eg master's) degree with us.

For the majority of our postgraduate degrees the following Secure English Language Test (SELT) minimum scores are required (please note the exceptions below):

Academic IELTS

Overall score required: 6.0

Component scores required:

Listening: 5.5
Reading: 5.5
Writing: 5.5
Speaking: 5.5

IELTS Indicator

Overall score required: 6.0

Component scores required:

Listening: 5.5
Reading: 5.5
Writing: 5.5
Speaking: 5.5

Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic

Component scores required:

Listening: 51
Reading: 51
Writing: 51
Speaking: 51

Test of English as a Foreign Language Internet Based Test (TOEFL iBT)

Overall score required: 72

Component scores required:

Listening: 17
Reading: 18
Writing: 17
Speaking: 20

TOEFL iBT Home Edition

Overall score required: 72

Component scores required:

Listening: 17
Reading: 18
Writing: 17
Speaking: 20

Cambridge English

Certificate of Proficiency overall grade required: C

A certifying statement of results is also required.

Some of our postgraduate degrees require you to have higher English language test scores. This applies to the following degrees (please see further exceptions below for Creative, Digital and Professional Writing MA, Sports Therapy MSc and the Common Professional Exam):

• Legal Practice LLM (all routes)
• Conference Interpreting MA
• Interpreting MA 
• Teaching Languages (English) MA
• Translation MA and other translation courses
• Education MA and other education and teaching courses
• Psychology MSc and other psychology courses
• Biomedical Science MSc
• Blood Science MSc and Blood Science (Distance Learning) MSc
• International Events, Leisure and Tourism Management MSc
• Cancer Pharmacology MSc

For these degrees you'll be required to have the following scores:

Academic IELTS

Overall score required: 6.5

Component scores required:

Listening: 6.0
Reading: 6.0
Writing: 6.0
Speaking: 6.0

IELTS Indicator

Overall score required: 6.5

Component scores required:

Listening: 6.0
Reading: 6.0
Writing: 6.0
Speaking: 6.0

Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic

Component scores required:

Listening: 58
Reading: 58
Writing: 58
Speaking: 58

TOEFL iBT

Component scores required:

Listening: 21
Reading: 22
Writing: 21
Speaking: 23

TOEFL iBT Home Edition

Component scores required:

Listening: 21
Reading: 22
Writing: 21
Speaking: 23

Cambridge English

Certificate of Proficiency overall grade required: C

A certifying statement of results is also required.

Important exceptions

Please note, some of our courses require even higher English language requirements:

• Sports Therapy MSc and Law: Common Professional Exam - GDL: We require a minimum average score of 7.0, with a minimum of 6.5 in all components.
• Creative, Digital and Professional Writing MA: We require a minimum average score of 7.0, with a minimum of 6.5 in all components except Writing, where we require a minimum of 7.0.