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Departmental English language requirements

Certain courses ask for a higher standard of English language achievement to gain entry to that particular programme.

The following is a list of departments (and, where appropriate, specific courses) showing the minimum English Language requirements. Please provide your most recent English language test.

English Language Requirements

Applied Linguistics, Centre for

  • MA TESOL: Band A (including equivalent to IELTS 6.5 in writing component)
  • MSc Intercultural Communication for Business and the Professions: Band B (including equivalent to IELTS 6.5 in reading & writing components, and 6.5 in one of speaking and listening, with no component under 6.0)
  • Research degrees: Band B (including equivalent to IELTS 7.0 in writing component)

Business School, Warwick

  • Taught courses and research courses: Band B

Centre for Education Studies

  • Taught courses and research courses: Band B

Centre for Teacher Education

  • PGCE & MA Prof Ed courses: Band B
  • PGCEi: Band A

Chemistry

  • All courses: Band A

Classics and Ancient History

  • All courses: Band B

Complexity Science

  • All courses: Band A

Computer Science

  • All courses: Band A

Economics

  • All courses: Band A
  • Except Economics MRes/PhD: Band B

Employment Research, Institute for

  • All courses: Band B

Engineering

  • All courses: Band A

English and Comparative Literary Studies

  • All courses: Band C

Film and Television Studies

  • All courses: Band B

French Studies

  • All courses: Band B

German Studies

  • All courses: Band B

Hispanic Studies

  • All courses: Band B

History

  • Taught courses: Band C
  • Research courses: Band B

History of Art

  • All courses: Band B

Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Centre for

  • All courses: Band B

Italian

  • All courses: Band B

Law

  • All courses: Band B

Lifelong Learning, Centre for

  • MA/PG Diploma/PG Certificate in The Management of Student Work Experience (MSWE) : Band A
  • MA/PG Diploma/PG Certificate in Career Education, Information and Guidance in Higher Education: Band A
  • MA/PG Diploma/PG Certificate in Career Development and Coaching Studies: Band B with 7.0 in Speaking and Listening
  • MA Coaching: Band A
  • PG Award in Working Therapeutically with Children and Young People, MA in Social Work: Band B
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Education (FE and Skills Sector) : Band B
  • PhD in Social Work, PhD in Social Policy and Social Work, Phd in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning: Band B

Mathematics

  • All courses: Band A

Medical School, Warwick

  • MBChB & research degrees not listed below: Band B
  • PhD in Medical Sciences: Band A
  • MSc by Research Medical Sciences: Band A
  • PhD in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research: Band A
  • PhD in Molecular Biomedicine: Band A
  • All other taught courses: Band A (including equivalent to IELTS 6.5 in reading & writing components)

Molecular Organisation and Assembly in Cells (MOAC)

  • All courses: Band A

Philosophy

  • All courses: Band B

Physics

  • All courses: Band A

Politics and International Studies

  • All courses: Band B

Psychology

  • All courses: Band B
  • MSc Behavioural and Economic Science: Band B

Renaissance Studies

  • All courses: Band B

School of Life Sciences

  • All courses: Band A

Scientific Computing

  • All courses: Band A

Sociology

  • All courses: Band B

Statistics

  • All courses: Band A

Systems Biology

  • All courses: Band A

School of Theatre & Performance Studies and Cultural & Media Policy Studies

  • All courses: Band B

Translation & Transcultural Studies

  • All courses: Band B

WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group)

  • All courses: Band A