Office of International Education
phone: (231) 591-2450
fax: (231) 591-2423
email us at: [email protected]
You must establish English language proficiency to enter an academic program. You can request that an official score report be delivered directly from the testing organization to Ferris. The list of accepted tests and scores along with our English proficiency policies can be found below.
We reserve the right to request that students take an additional English placement test upon arrival if English skills do not appear to equal the submitted test scores.
Applicants from English Speaking Countries
Proof of English proficiency may not be required if applying from a country in which
English is the native language, or if the student has completed a non-ESL academic
course at an approved college or university with C grades or above. The following
countries are exempt from the English testing requirement.
Antigua Australia Bahamas Bahrain Barbuda Belize Bermuda Botswana British Virgin Isles Cameroon Cayman Islands Christmas Island Cocos |
Cooks Islands Dominica England Fiji Ghana Grenada Grenadines Guam Guyana Ireland Isle of Man Jamaica Keeling Island Kiribati Lesotho |
Liberia Marshall Islands Mauritius Micronesia Montserrat N. Marianas Nevis New Zealand Norfolk Island Papua New Guinea Scotland Sierra Leone South Africa |
St. Christopher St. Helena St. Kitts St. Lucia St. Vincent Swaziland Tanzania Trinidad and Tobago Uganda United Kingdom Virgin Islands Zambia Zimbabwe |