# Language Requirements
**Source**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/undergraduate-requirements/language-requirements
**Parent**: https://www.aucegypt.edu/admissions/undergraduate-requirements
### **English Placement Exemption Criteria**
Applicants who satisfy one or more of the following criteria qualify for an exemption:
- Students who spent the last four consecutive years of their secondary school in a country where the official language is English and the language of instruction in their secondary school is English.
- Students who have completed College Board Advanced Placement tests (English Language and Composition) course with grades 4 and above may be exempted and granted transfer credits.
- Successful completion of one or more non-remedial, university-level English courses.
- Successful completion of English-medium secondary school coursework and examinations that qualify for advanced placement, including the International Baccalaureate diploma program.
TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo scores are required of an applicant who does not attend an English-language university in an English-speaking country.
Applicants not exempted must submit official test results from the TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo. Tests must be completed **no more than two years** prior to the first day of the semester applied for.
### **English Placement Levels**
The University determines English-language placement using applicants’ highest score on the TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo. AUC may offer the accepted applicants who do not qualify for rhetoric and composition the opportunity to enroll in AUC’s [Intensive English Program (IEP)](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/english-language-instruction/intensive-english-programs-undergraduates) or [Academic English for the Liberal Arts (ELA)](https://www.aucegypt.edu/academics/english-language-instruction/academic-english-liberal-arts). Both IEP and ELA serve as the University’s bridge courses to the Department of Rhetoric and Composition. IEP students must complete the program within a time period not to exceed two full semesters and a summer session. ELA students also must complete their coursework in a period not to exceed two full semesters and a summer session.