Pre-sessional summer courses

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Our 12, 10 and 8 week pre-sessional courses will now be online.

These full-time, intensive English language courses are for international students with IELTS scores of either 5.0, 5.5, 6.0 or 6.5 and who hold an offer to study on an undergraduate or postgraduate courses with us.

If you successfully complete your relevant pre-sessional course, there is no need to retake an IELTS test.

8 week course

This summer 2020 course is for students with IELTS (Academic) for UKVI 6.0 (with all sub-scores at 5.0 or higher) who have a course entry requirement of IELTS 6.5.

10 week course

This summer 2020 course is for students with IELTS (Academic) for UKVI 6.5 (with all sub-scores at 5.5 or higher) who have a course entry requirement of IELTS 7.0.

12 week course

This summer 2020 course is for students with IELTS (Academic) for UKVI 5.5 who have a score of 5.0 in Writing (and all other sub-scores at 4.5 or higher) and have a course entry requirement of IELTS 6.5.

20 week course

This summer 2020 course is for students with IELTS (Academic) for UKVI 5.0 overall who have a score of 4.5 in Writing and Speaking (and all other sub-scores at 4.0 or higher) and have a course entry requirement of IELTS 6.5.