International Graduate Student Access Program

The International Graduate Student Access Program (GAP) at The University of Toledo provides intensive language and test preparation training to international graduate applicants who have not met the UToledo graduate level language proficiency requirement. Students enrolled in the GAP will be provisionally admitted to their graduate program and enroll as a full‐time student at the American Language Institute. Program Goals The GAP aims at helping international graduate applicants improve their English and academic skills, fulfill language proficiency requirement for applied graduate programs and provide adjustment opportunities to academic life in the United States through a series of graduate level preparation courses. Eligibility Any international graduate applicant can directly enter or progress to the GAP if heshe meets all the other admission requirements as determined by the student’s chosen graduate program with the exception of language proficiency test score and is granted provisional admission by the College of Graduate Studies. A student will lose the provisional admission status if heshe cannot meet the language proficiency requirement within one academic year. Admission Procedure Step 1: Student concurrently applies to College of Graduate Studies (COGS) and American Language Institute (ALI). Step 2: COGS sends all materials except for proof of language proficiency to department. Step 3: Graduate program in each department preliminarily reviews materials and makes conditional admission decision. Step 4: Student is admitted to ALI to take or progress to GAP courses. Step 5: Student is admitted to graduate program after completing GAP. Program Curriculum Students enrolled in the GAP program will take 18 non-credit hours of intensive English training (30 hours of in-class instruction per week) in a regular 8-week ALI term preparing them for graduate-level course work.