For entry into a postgraduate taught course you'll need one of the following:

• typically a UK honours degree with lower second class honours (2:2). Some courses may have different requirements: these will be stated on individual course pages
• relevant qualifications obtained in your home country, as per Anglia Ruskin's country-specific entry requirements
• some courses may have extra requirements, such as portfolios for art and design courses. These are outlined in our postgraduate course pages.

For entry into a postgraduate research course you'll need one of the following:

• the usual entry requirement for an MPhil is a UK honours degree in a related subject, with Upper Second Class (2:1) or First Class honours or the equivalent from another country
• for direct registration for a PhD you will usually require an appropriate Masters degree from a UK university or the equivalent from another country.

For more information about entry requirements, please visit our postgraduate research page.

Standard English requirements

The minimum requirements for most of our degrees are provided in the table below. Some of our courses have higher requirements, so please visit the course page you are interested in to check the specific English requirement.

Postgraduate courses

• IELTS (Academic)
  • Overall 6.5 with 5.5 in each of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)
• TOEFL iBT
  • 88 overall with 17 in Writing and Listening, 18 in Reading and 20 in Speaking 
• Pearson PTE Academic
  • 61 overall with 59 in each of the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading and writing)

https://www.aru.ac.uk/international/entry-requirements

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Please send the student details and documents to [email protected]. IGS team will submit the application through QS portal.