Pre-sessional English Courses for Postgraduates

The Pre-sessional English Courses for Postgraduates are for international students who hold an offer to study a postgraduate degree at UCL and need to meet their English language requirement. They improve your academic skills, language and knowledge so you can succeed on your UCL degree.
Prepare and integrate: Develop the academic skills in English you’ll need to study a degree at UCL and be introduced to the UCL community before you start your degree.
Exceptional English language preparation: Successfully completing this course satisfies UCL's English language requirement for postgraduate degrees.
They are available to study face-to-face or online and suitable if you hold a conditional UCL postgraduate degree offer.

The courses satisfy Levels 1-5 of UCL’s English language requirement. You can check the English language requirement of your future degree on your offer letter.

They are full-time and intensive and you must be fully available for the duration of the course. They are not compatible with working, studying other courses, or completing internships at the same time.

You must have finished your undergraduate degree (studies and exams) before your Pre-sessional course start date.
To be eligible you must hold a conditional offer for a postgraduate UCL degree.
Your eligibility for these courses then depends on:
your current level of Englishthe English level required for your future degreewhether you’ll study online or face-to-facethe type of English language qualification you have.