Undergraduate Requirements

BA (Hons) International Business and BA (Hons) International Events Management

Academic Requirements

For entry onto our BA programmes, students must have five GCSE/IGCSE subjects or equivalent with grades A-C, including Maths and English, and two A levels minimum grades C or above*. Alternatively we can accept an A-Level equivalent or one of the following qualifications:

Four Scottish Highers
Five Irish Leaving Certificates
International Baccalaureate Diploma
French Baccalaureat
European Baccalaureate
National Baccalaureate
Abitur
Maturità
Avgangsbetyg
Vitnemål
VWO
Título de Bachillerato
Advanced Placement Exams*
Bagrut/Mechina
Apolytirion of Lykeio

Or other international qualifications accepted as fulfilling British University requirements, as recommended by the National Academic Recognition Information Centre (NARIC).

Note: Students applying with an American High School Diploma or similar 12-year secondary equivalent, e.g. HAVO, will normally be required to complete our one-year Business Foundation Course to satisfy the academic requirements for our BA (Hons) degrees.

* Please note that we may not accept an A Level or AP exam if it is done in the student's native language, i.e. we would not accept an A Level or AP exam in German from a German student.

English Language Requirements*

For those applicants whose mother tongue is not English, we require a recent pass in any of the following qualifications:

IELTS (minimum 6.5)
TOEFL (90 points in the internet-based test, 233 in the computer-based version, or 577 in the paper-based test). The TOEFL code for EBS London is 2487.
Cambridge Advanced English Certificate (grades A-C)
Certificate of Proficiency in English (grades A-C)
GCSE/IGCSE English Grade C or above
Grade 5 in the IB English HL
English C of the Avgangsbetyg with a VG or MVG
English grade 5 or 6 in the Vitnemål
75% overall in all English components of the European Baccalaureate
EIKEN English test - Grade Pre 1

* This requirement may be waived if the last three years of the student's education were in English. We reserve the right to request an English test at our discretion.

Page last updated 7/3/2009