UNDERGRADUATE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB)

31–37 points
Particular Higher Level subjects and/or scores may be required eg HL Maths for degrees in
the Department of Economics and Related Studies.

National qualifications
 Bachillerato
 Bachiller Académico
 Bachiller en la Enseñanza Media
 Certificado de Educación Secundaria Común Completa
 Certificado de Ensino Médio
 Licencia de Educación / Enseñanza Media
If you're leaving secondary school with any of the qualifications listed above, you'll need
to take an additional course before being able to apply for an undergraduate course at
York. This could be a recognised foundation course, such as York’s Kaplan IPC
Foundation Certificate.

Or you could study one year of university in your home country and then apply for direct
entry to Year 1 at York via UCAS (ucas.com)

USA High school graduation diploma

3.0/4.0

SAT® Reasoning Test with a minimum score of 600

in each section (optional essay not required)
OR
ACT with a minimum score of at least 26 in each section

Three AP tests with scores ranging between 4 and 5

OR
Three SAT subject tests with scores ranging between 650 and 700

(A combination of AP and SAT subject tests is acceptable)

*All above information is correct at August 2020, but is subject to change for 2021-22
POSTRGRADUATE ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Country UK 2:1 UK 2:2
Argentina 7.5/10 6/10
65% or 'B' from The University 60% or 'B-' from The University of
Belize of West Indies West Indies
Brazil 7.5/10 6.5/10
Bolivia 75% 65%
Chile 5.5/7.0 5.0/7.0
Colombia 3.75/5 3.25/5
Costa Rica 8/10 7.5/10
Ecuador 80% 70%
El Salvador 7.5 or 75 (Muy Bueno) 6.5 or 65 (Bueno)
Licenciado/Titulo with 75% from Licenciado/Titulo with 65% from a
a public institution or 80% from public institution or 70% from a
Guatemala a private institution private institution

Masters with 3/4 or 55%

Guyana Masters with 3.5/4 or 65%

Honduras 80%/ B/ 3 70%/ C/ 2

Mexico 8/10 7/10
Nicaragua 80% or 8 (Good) 70% or 7

Licenciado / Título de [subject Licenciado / Título de [subject

Panama area] with 80% area] with 70%
Paraguay 4.0/5.0 or 80% 3.0/5.0 or 70%
13 out of 20 for public/state 12 out of 20 for public/state
institutions (15 out of 20 for institutions (14 out of 20 for private
Peru private institutions) institutions)

Puerto Rico 3.0/4.0 2.5/4.0

Uruguay 9 out of 12 7 out of 12

USA 3.2 out of 4.0 2.8 out of 4.0
7 out of 9 (81-90%) or 16 out of
Venezuela 20 6 out of 9 (71-80%) or 14 out of 20

*All above information is correct at August 2020, but is subject to change for 2021-22
ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS
You are able to make your application to York WITHOUT your English test results -
IELTS/ TOEFL results can be uploaded later.

The following tests are accepted for entry into degree-level courses:

 International English Language Testing System (IELTS) (Academic)

 PTE Academic
 Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English (CAE)
 Cambridge Proficiency (CPE)
 TOEFL IBT (internet based and special home edition) (TOEFL MyBest score is
not acceptable for meeting the English language requirement)
 Trinity ISE
Undergraduate Postgraduate Taught Postgraduate Research
(Masters) (Masters by Research and
PhD)
IELTS 6.0 / TOEFL 79 for: IELTS 6.0 / TOEFL 79 for: IELTS 6.0 / TOEFL 79 for:
Electronic Engineering Electronic Engineering Chemistry
Mathematics Mathematics Computer Science
Physics Music Electronic Engineering
Physics Environment and
Geography Mathematics
Music
Physics
IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL 87 IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL 87 IELTS 6.5 / TOEFL 87
for most other subjects for most other subjects for most other subjects

IELTS 7.0 / TOEFL 96 for: IELTS 7.0 / TOEFL 96 for: IELTS 7.0 / TOEFL 96 for
Medicine Education (TESOL Education
Nursing and Midwifery and Applied Linguistics English and Related
LLB Law Senior Status programmes), Literature
English and Related Health Sciences
Literature History History of Art
Language and Linguistic History
Science Law Language and Linguistic
Medieval Studies Science Law
Philosophy Management
Psychology Medieval Studies
Philosophy
Psychology

*All above information is correct at August 2020, but is subject to change for 2021-22