{"id":24948,"date":"2018-12-21T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T04:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/?page_id=24948"},"modified":"2026-01-20T12:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:38:23","slug":"english-requirement-for-exchange-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/exchange\/english-requirement-for-exchange-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Required English Proficiency for the Student Exchange Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Applicants seeking admission to English-Based exchange program (JYPE\/COLABS\/IPLA) whose native language is not English are required to prove English proficiency through one of the following ways.<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Qualification<\/b><\/td>\r\nMinimum Requirement<\/b><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
IELTS (International English Language Testing System)<\/span><\/td>\r\n\r\n

Overall Band - 6.0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

(The online version of IELTS is also acceptable.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n

\r\n

TOEFL\u00aeTest<\/p>\r\n

- Option 1: TOEFL iBT\u00ae
\r\n- Option 2: TOEFL PBT\u00ae<\/p>\r\n<\/td>\r\n

Score - 79 (option1)
\r\nScore - 550 (option2)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication)<\/td>\r\nScore - 730<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)*2<\/td>\r\nB2 or equivalent<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
IB (International Baccalaureate)<\/td>\r\n\u3000<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
English A1 or A2 (Higher or Standard Level)<\/td>\r\nGrade 4<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
English A: Language and Literature (Higher or Standard Level)<\/td>\r\nGrade 4<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
English A: Literature (Higher or Standard Level)<\/td>\r\nGrade 4<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
English Literature and Performance (Standard Level)<\/td>\r\nGrade 4<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
English B (Higher Level)<\/td>\r\nGrade 4<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
English B (Standard Level)<\/td>\r\nGrade 5<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)<\/td>\r\nGrade C<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
Cambridge English: First (FCE)<\/td>\r\nB2<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
French Baccalaur\u00e9at (OIB-British, American Options) English subject<\/td>\r\nScore: 12<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
DAAD Scholarships<\/td>\r\nQualified Applicant (B2 or equivalent)<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
CET(China) - 4<\/td>\r\nScore - 530<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
CET(China) - 6<\/td>\r\nScore - 500<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

*1 A required certificate has to be within its validity period
\r\n*2 EF-SET(https:\/\/www.efset.org\/) Certificate is unacceptable<\/p>\r\n

*3 TOEFL is a registered trademark of ETS. This (publication\/ product\/ website) is not endorsed or approved by ETS.<\/p>\r\n

*4 Duolingo English Test certificate is not available.<\/p>\r\n

*5 TOEFL\u00ae-ITP is not available.<\/p>\r\n

<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

English requirement will be waived if a student satisfy one of the following conditions:
\r\n- students who are currently enrolled in the universities in one of the following countries
\r\n- students completed high school or university degree earned from one of the following countries.<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

Australia
\r\nCanada
\r\nNew Zealand
\r\nSouth Africa
\r\nSingapore
\r\nUnited Kingdom
\r\nUnited States<\/p>\r\n

 <\/p>\r\n

If applicants enroll in a course generally instructed in English, a CERTIFICATE<\/a> issued by their home university which verifies their enrollment will be validated as a language certificate.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applicants seeking admission to English-Based exchange program (JYPE\/COLABS\/IPLA) whose native language is not […]","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":29405,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74991,"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24948\/revisions\/74991"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insc.tohoku.ac.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}