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Many departments offer teaching assistantships to qualified, enrolled graduate students. International applicants are eligible for these assistantships. Since teaching assistantships involve instruction, students who are awarded a teaching assistantship and whose native language is not English are required to demonstrate oral English proficiency. Students may do this by demonstrating sufficient oral proficiency in English on the speaking section of the TOEFL iBT (a score of 26 or higher) or IELTS (a score of 8.0 or higher).  In addition, the oral English proficiency test is administered by the Graduate School at no cost to the graduate student at the beginning of Fall and Spring semesters.  Information about this test and the University's policy regarding spoken English proficiency is on the Graduate School's website. 

International students should complete all testing requriements immediately after arrival on campus.  International students are not eligible to teach in the summer or winter session in Continuing and Professional Education until they have passed the oral English proficiency test.  

International students will be deemed to have the appropriate oral proficiency in English by meeting one (1) of the following criteria:1). S/he speaks English as a first language; 2). S/he is a citizen of Australia, Botswana, Canada, Caribbean English-speaking countries, Dominica, Gambia, Ghana, United Kingdom, Guyana, Hong Kong, Ireland, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, West Indies, Zambia, or Zimbabwe; 3). S/he has earned a college or university degree in the United States or in one of the countries listed above in 2).