ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

To be considered for admission to AUA's degree or certificate programs, an applicant must meet the general admission requirements and the program specific requirements. General admission requirements are:

1) Hold a baccalaureate degree from a 4-year or 5-year program at an accredited institution of higher education or a licensed institution of higher education in Armenia.

2) Satisfy the English Language Proficiency Requirement as explained below.

3) Take the standardized graduate examination applicable to the particular program as explained below.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENT - Please note change in TOEFL Requirement below

Since the language of instruction at AUA is English, command of the language, both oral and written, is required for admission to all AUA degree/certificate programs. Applicants must demonstrate a level of English proficiency commensurate with the demands of a graduate degree or certificate program. An applicant is considered to meet the English Language Proficiency Requirement in the following circumstances:

(a) The language of instruction of the institution from which he/she received the undergraduate degree, in all its programs, is recognized by AUA to be English or

(b) The applicant presents proof of English proficiency according to the chart below plus an acceptable Writing Score. The test must have been taken in the two years prior to the application date. Students with less than the required English proficiency may be considered for conditional admission. Such conditionally admitted students will be required to take remedial English classes.

(c) For the 2010 admissions period, you have the option of the iBT or the Paper-based TOEFL. If you take the Paper-based TOEFL, you will be required to take the Supplemental Assessment of Oral and Written Skills, which is administered by the Department of English Programs, with an additional fee of 35,000 AMD.
Please note: Beginning in 2011, only the iBT will be accepted for admission to AUA

Prospective students who do not have the required English proficiency may apply to attend the Intensive Academic English Program (IAEP) at AUA.

TOEFL scores must be requested from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) so that official results will be sent directly to AUA's U.S. office in Oakland , California . Indicate AUA's TOEFL Institution Code (4151) and Department Code (99) in the score report request. Applicants must ensure that their official TOEFL scores are received by AUA on or before the deadline for applications.   

STANDARDIZED GRADUATE EXAMINATION REQUIREMENTS

Each applicant to a graduate degree/certificate program must take the appropriate graduate standardized examination. Applicants to the MBA program must take the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). Applicants to the master's programs in Industrial Engineering & Systems Management, Computer and Information Science, Political Science and International Affairs, and Public Health must take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Applicants to the master's program in LL.M. must take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT). No additional tests are required for the CTEFL and MATEFL programs.

Applicants are required to pay for their examination fees and arrange for the GRE/GMAT examination results to arrive in AUA's U.S. office in Oakland , California by the application deadline for the program to which they are applying. The responsibility for the timely payment of the examination fee, the proper registration for the examination, and the timely receipt of the results, is to be born by the student. Applicants should be aware that the time between registration for the tests and AUA receiving official scores can take up to eight weeks.  Only test scores of examinations taken within the past two years of the application deadline will be considered for admission.

In all cases, applicants must request from the respective testing institution that their official scores be reported directly to the University's U.S. office in Oakland , California. The GRE Institutional Code is R0676, the LSAT Institutional Code is 0402 and the GMAT Institutional Code is 0284.  

IMPORTANT NOTE TO ALL APPLICANTS

Meeting the minimum requirements does not guarantee admission to AUA.  Because the number of students who can be accepted is limited, admission to AUA is competitive and is based on a detailed review of the applicant's academic record and an assessment of the applicant’s seriousness of purpose in seeking to undertake graduate studies at AUA.   In the admissions process, all candidates to a program are measured against all the other applicants to that department.  The applicants whose overall qualifications best fit both the general AUA requirements and the specific requirements of the program to which they are applying will be selected from the pool of applicants for each year.   An individual applicant's chance of being admitted depends, in some measure, on the strength or weakness of all other applicants applying at the same time. 

SPECIAL ADMISSION

In very rare cases, the Admissions Committee may, at its discretion, admit an applicant who does not meet the minimum requirements, but who otherwise has demonstrated the potential to successfully pursue an academic program at AUA.   Students admitted to AUA in this category are considered to be on probation and must meet the conditions specified in their letters of admission. Students not meeting these probationary admission conditions will be subject to dismissal.