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Bridge Program
Brydon English Language Institute is a division of the University of North America, a graduate institution which awards degrees in business and technology. To enter the graduate program at the University of North America without conditions on their admission, students must meet one of the following requirements:
  • Internet-based TOEFL-IBT score of 80
  • Computer-based TOEFL score of 213
  • Paper-based TOEFL score of 550
  • IELTS score of 6.0.
  • Four years of secondary schooling AND an undergraduate degree BOTH through the medium of English.

The English language bridge program at UoNA is for students who do not meet the minimum TOEFL-IBT admissions requirement (TOEFL-IBT score of 80). Students who score 70-79 on their TOEFL - IBT exam may enter the bridge program as a condition of their admission to UoNA. Conditionally admitted graduate students are required to take developmental English classes along with their degree granting classes. These developmental classes will be held two days a week for a total of six instructional hours per week for 12 week period.
Brydon English Language Institue offers its own in-house TOEFL-IBT test. In order to be conditionally admitted to the graduate program, a student must score a minimum of 60 or better on BELI's TOEFL-IBT exam. All students are also required to have a minimum score of 15 from each skill level. Students who do not achieve a total score of 60 or better or who do not score above 15 in any skill level must be enrolled in the full-time English as a Second Language course of study at the Brydon English Language Institue.
A student who has completed, at least, the upper-intermediate and the advanced levels in the full-time English as a Second Language course of study at the Brydon English Language Institute will be admitted into UoNA' s bridge program without the requirement of taking the TOEFL-IBT exam.
Students who have not taken the TOEFL-IBT test in their countries prior to their admission will have the option to take the Brydon English Language Institute's TOEFL-IBT exam. The in-house exam assesses the following skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. There will be a $25.00 fee for placement testing.

 
TOEFL - IBT Placement Testing- Chart
Students who score a minimum of 60 or better in their TOEFL-IBT placement test can start with the Advanced bridge level courses. Students who score above 69 can start with the High-Advanced bridge courses. Students who score 80 or above will not be required to take any English language classes.
Advanced MIN: 60 - 69 Reading 15/25
Writing 15/25
Listening 15/25
Speaking 15/25
High Advanced MIN: 69 - 70 Reading 15/25
Writing 15/25
Listening 15/25
Speaking 15/25
 
Bridge Program Course Structure
These developmental courses are held two days a week for a total of six instructional hours per week for 12 week period. Conditionally admitted students must take the bridge courses one-by-one along with their graduate degree courses. Upon successful completion of their bridge courses, the condition on the students' admission to UNVA will be removed.
Credit hours will be awarded for the bridge program courses; however, those credit hours will not count toward a students' degree program and will not be calculated into a student's grade point average (GPA).
Level Course TextBooks Hours/Day Credit Hours
Advanced Reading / Writing Looking Ahead 3: Developing Skills for Academic Writing (Heinle & Heinle) 3 4
Listening / Speaking Consider the Issues (Longman) 3 4
High Advanced Reading / Writing Looking Ahead 3: Developing Skills for Academic Writing (Heinle & Heinle) 3 4
Listening / Speaking Raise the Issues (Longman) 3 4

 

 

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