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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.

Department

Course or Area

English Language Requirement
Applied Linguistics, Centre for MA TESOL Band A (including equivalent to IELTS 6.5 in writing component)

All other taught courses

Band A (including equivalent to IELTS 6.5 in reading & writing components)

Research degrees

Band B (including equivalent to IELTS 7.0 in writing component)
Business School, Warwick Taught courses Band B
Research courses Band B
Centre for Education Studies All courses Band A
Centre for Teacher Education PGCE & MA Prof Ed courses Band B
PGCEi Band A
Chemistry All courses Band A
MSc Polymer Chemistry 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 All 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), MA/PG Diploma/PG Certificate in Career Education, Information and Guidance in Higher Education, MA/PG Diploma/PG Certificate in Career Development and Coaching Studies, MA Coaching Band A

PG Award in Working Therapeutically with Children and Young People, MA in Social Work

Postgraduate Diploma in Education (FE and Skills Sector)

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 Band B
All other taught courses Band A (including equivalent to IELTS 6.5 in reading & writing components)
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 (minimum of 6.5 in each component of the IELTS test)
Systems Biology All courses Band A
'School of Theatre & Performance Studies and Cultural & Media Policy Studies All courses Band B
WMG (Warwick Manufacturing Group) All courses Band A