​Undergraduate programmes

All applicants are required to sit for an English Placement Test.

Students applying to the Faculty of Education or are holders of the equivalence of the Lebanese Baccalaureate are required to sit also for an Arabic Placement Test.

The language placement tests results do not affect admission decisions but help place the student at the appropriate language level. Depending on the test results, students who do not meet the language required level will be given remedial courses or students who achieve high results will be exempted from taking the language courses.

A student is exempted from taking AR 111 and AR 112 if he/she had majored in the Arabic Language and successfully passed it for two or more years in a recognized university.

Additional Exemptions from the English Language Level Courses

If you have previously taken TOFEL or IELTS, you shall be exempted from taking the placement test and exempted from some English language courses, according to your score, provided that the tests result is not older than two years:​

Postgraduate programmes

MBA and MSc applicants are required to sit for an English placement test. The test results do not affect the admission decision but help place the candidate at the appropriate language level. Applicants with an evidence of a minimum score of 7.0 for IELTS, or 600 on the paper based TOEFL, 250 for the TOEFL CBT or 100 for the internet based TOEFL​ will be exempted from the English placement test (for the test scores to be valid they should have been obtained within the past 2 years)​​

MA in TEFL applicants are required to achieve Band 6 or higher in the Academic Version of the 'International English Language Testing System' (IELTS) test, OR Achieve a score of 550 or more in the ‘Test of English as a Foreign Language’ (TOEFL) (Paper-Based Test) or the equivalent score in the Computer-Based Test.​​​