This is a full-time, intensive English language course for international students who are 0.5 IELTS below the required level for entry onto a course at the university.

This course is designed to improve your skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking and to develop your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. It also seeks to enhance your IT and study skills. In addition, it includes organised trips and social events to help you make the most of your free-time.

On completion of this course you will be eligible for guaranteed progression onto a named course at the University (subject to conditions detailed in Course Detail).

Course details

You will have 25 academic hours of English classes each week. You will also be expected to do homework and open learning in the Language Resource Centre.

When you arrive you will be given a test and placed in a group of students with a similar language level. There are normally three different levels: pre-intermediate, intermediate and upper-intermediate. At all levels you will have classes in academic reading and writing, academic listening and speaking, and project work.

On completion of this course you will be eligible for guaranteed progression onto a named course at the University of Salford where:

  • You hold a conditional offer of a place on your chosen course, and the sole condition of offer relates to English language entry requirements
  • You are able to produce documentary evidence (as defined on the University’s website) which indicates that your English-language competence is no more than 0.5 IELTS points (or equivalent) below the English-language requirement for your chosen course. You must have a minimum of 5.5 in all components (listening, reading, writing and speaking)
  • Your attendance rate on this programme is no lower than 90 per cent
  • You complete, at an acceptable standard, all required coursework.

Course Enquiries

For course enquiries please call us on:

T: +44 (0) 161 295 4545

Or Email us at:

Home/EU students
E: enquiries@salford.ac.uk

International students
E: international@salford.ac.uk

www.salford.ac.uk/study