English Proficiency

English Proficiency for Graduate Admissions

Option A

Option B

OPTION C

__ Successfully earned a four-year undergraduate or a two-year graduate program, culminating in a degree from an accredited college/university/institution in the following English-dominant educational contexts: (if less than required years, see option B additional documents)

United States and its territories, Australia, Belize, British Caribbean and British West Indies, Canada, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, and the United Kingdom.

__ Successfully earned a four-year undergraduate or a two-year graduate program, culminating in a degree from an accredited college/university/institution in another other English-dominant educational contexts:

For example, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, among others.






 

OR THE FOLLOWING VERIFIABLE DOCUMENT:

__ (a) official letter from school verifying all courses were taught in English

__ Officially submitted TOEFL iBT or IELTS Academic scores

Additional Support (optional): StepUp courses, ESLP 001, ESLP 002, ESLP 003, ESLP 004, ESLP 012, ENGR 430

Please contact coe-admissions@lehigh.edu with any questions.

TOEFL or IELTS Scores (DuoLingo is not accepted)

Graduate applicants who fall into section C above are required to take the TOEFL Internet-Based Test or the IELTS test. TOEFL test date must be within the last 2 years.

The following target scores refer to the minimum scores within the College of Education. 

COE iBT TOEFL SCORES
Reading - 23
Listening - 21
Speaking - 24
Writing - 23
Total score - 91

COE IELTS SCORES     
Writing - 6.5
Speaking - 7.5
Reading - 7.0
Listening - 6.5
Total score - 6.5

Lehigh University school code: 2365

StepUp program

If an applicant's language test scores fall below the requirements but the faculty feel their application is otherwise a good fit for their program, they may opt to offer admission conditional upon the completion of Lehigh University's StepUp program.