English language requirement

If your first language is not English you must be able to provide recent evidence that your spoken and written command of the English language is adequate for the programmes for which you have applied.

Hydroclimatology lecture in the Pearson Building (UCL Geography)
Hydroclimatology lecture in the Pearson Building (UCL Geography)

The requirements for all programmes (as indicated in the table below) will be at one of three levels: Standard, Good, or Advanced and the evidence we require may take one of the following forms:

  • substantial education (minimum 12 months) or work experience (minimum 18 months) conducted in English in a majority English speaking country and undertaken no more than two years prior to your proposed date of enrolment
  • an acceptable English language qualification or test result, which must have been awarded no more than two years prior to your proposed date of enrolment.

We reserve the right, in individual circumstances, to specify an additional language requirement for an applicant if it is felt to be necessary, or to require a higher level than that indicated.

English language proficiency requirements by programme

Bachelor of Arts and Sciences

Advanced level required for all programmes.

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Advanced level required for all programmes, except:

  • W100 Fine Art
  • W101 Fine Art

where a standard level is required.

Faculty of Brain Sciences

Good level required for all programmes, except:

  • C800 Psychology

where an Advanced level is required for GCSE/IGCSE

Faculty of the Built Environment

Standard level required for all programmes.

Faculty of Engineering Sciences

Standard level required for all programmes, except:

  • PN11 Information Management for Business
  • P1N1 Information Management for Business

where a good level is required.

Faculty of Laws

Advanced level required for all programmes.

Faculty of Life Sciences

Good level required for all programmes, except:

B990 Biomedical Sciences

where an Advanced level is required

Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Standard level required for all programmes, except:

  • LG13 Economics and Statistics BSc
  • V550 History and Philosophy of Science
  • L391 Science and Society
  • GN32 Statistics and Management for Business
  • GLN0 Statistics, Economics and Finance
  • GLR0 Statistics, Economics and a Language
  • G305 Statistical Science (International Programme)

where a Good level is required.

Please note: UCL's Statistical Science Department does not accept iGCSE English as a second language.

Medical School

Advanced level required for all programmes.

School of Slavonic and East European Studies

Good level required for all programmes.

Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences

Good level required for all programmes, except:

  • V110 Ancient History
  • VQ14 Ancient History and Egyptology
  • V100 History
  • V1R9 History with a European Language
  • V104 History with a Year Abroad

where an Advanced level is required.

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