Prepare your language for University study at The Centre for Academic English

You are planning to come to Manchester for your undergraduate or postgraduate studies. It’s a vibrant city with easy access to all regions of the UK – a centre of industry, finance and leisure. We are sure you would like to make the most of it, so don’t let your English language skills hold you back!

Our English language courses are designed to enable you to maximise this very special opportunity to live and study in a different country and culture. However, in order for us to help you raise your English to the level you will need for your studies, we expect you to have attained a minimum IELTS score of 4.0 or TOEFL 450 before you arrive at the Centre For Academic English.

We offer:

• Highly qualified tutors
• Range of courses in general and academic English
• Needs analysis (if required)
• Examination practice
• Technological support
• Modern university environment
• Social activities
• Caring staff
• Conducive surroundings

Our English language courses are specifically designed to help you move from your current level of English to the level necessary for you to gain maximum benefit from your academic studies here at MMU.

Consisting of a maximum of eighteen students, our class sizes are kept relatively small so that our tutors can assist individual learners if necessary.

In order to enrol on our 30-week General English Course, which starts in September, we ask our students to provide evidence of a score of 4.0 in the International English Language Test (IELTS) or a score of 450 in the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Students who have taken the TOEFL test by computer will require a result of 133.

Those students enrolling in January on our 20-week General English Course will need an existing IELTS score of 4.5, TOEFL 475 or computer test score of 150. Finally, those students who would prefer to enrol on our April entry 10-week General English Course must have an IELTS 5 or TOEFL 500 (computer test 173).

Once you have completed one of our General English courses, you will be expected to take an IELTS test in June to test your progress. This examination will be provided free of charge. If at this point you attain the required IELTS score for your chosen university course, you will be able to progress direct to your department. If not, you may then be admitted onto a Pre-sessional English Language Course for your training in English for Academic Purposes.

All students will be awarded a certificate once they have successfully completed a course at the Centre for Academic English.