English Language Requirements

Pacific Link College will accept English Language Test scores from the below as a requirement for general admissions.

Name of English Language Assessment/Test Minimum Score(s)/Level(s)*
1 International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic Minimum overall score of 5.5
2 Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) IBT Minimum overall score of 46
3 Canadian Academic English Language Assessment (CAEL) Minimum overall score of 40
4 Canadian English Language Proficiency Index Program (CELPIP) Listening 6, Speaking 6, Reading 5, and Writing 5
5 Duolingo English Test (DET) Minimum overall score of 95
6 Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic Minimum overall score of 43
7 Cambridge English Qualifications: B2 First exam (FCE)
Institutions may include other Cambridge Qualifications at a higher level (i.e..C2 Proficiency (CPE)).		 Minimum overall score of 160 or “C”
8 Cambridge Linguaskill Minimum overall B2 level
9 LANGUAGECERT Academic Minimum overall B2 level
10 The Michigan English Test (MET) Minimum overall B2 level
11 iTEP Academic Minimum overall score of 3.5
12 ΕΙΚΕΝ Minimum placement of Grade Pre-1
  • PLC can accept applicants that have successfully completed at least 2 years of full-time post-secondary education at an accredited institution where English is the language of instruction. Proof of language in English is required.

PLC considers education completed (in English) in the following countries as counting toward an assessment of prior education in English.

American Samoa Dominica Lesotho St. Kitts & Nevis
Anguilla Falkland Islands Liberia St. Lucia
e Fiji Malta St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Australia Gambia Mauritius Tanzania
Bahamas Ghana Montserrat Trinidad & Tobago
Barbados Gibraltar New Zealand Turks & Caicos Islands
Belize Grenada Nigeria Uganda
Bermuda Guam Seychelles United Kingdom
Botswana Guyana Sierra Leone US Virgin Islands
British Virgin Islands Ireland Singapore USA
Canada Jamaica South Africa Zambia
Cayman Islands Kenya St. Helena Zimbabwe