Entry requirements

XJTLU enrolls students in the first batch of Undergraduates in the college entrance examination uniformly.

In addition, our university is conducting overall merit admission in Jiangsu Province and Guangdong Province.

WHICH PROGRAMME DO YOU WANT TO STUDY?

MINIMUM ENTRY REQUIREMENT

The minimum entry requirements for all masters programmes:

CHINA

Top 100 of 2022 Shanghai Ranking or World-class universities or First-class disciplines (MoE, People’s Republic of China): 75 percent or above (Weighted Average Mark)
Other universities: 80 – 85 percent or above (Weighted Average Mark), depending on your undergraduate institution

Note: Shanghai Ranking of The Best Chinese Universities is subject to annual update at https://www.shanghairanking.cn/rankings/bcur/202210

UK:

UK upper second class honours (2:1) or equivalent

NORTH AMERICA:

3.0 Cumulative GPA (out of 4) or
3.2 Cumulative GPA in the final two years of your undergraduate programme

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENT

If English is not your native language or if you have not studied in English at degree level, you will need to provide evidence of your level of English proficiency.

You should normally possess an appropriate onsite IELTS (Academic), TOEFL iBT, PTE (Academic) or equivalent score (Tests completed no earlier than 1 January 2021) as listed on each programme page.

Please refer to the below equivalence table for the accepted English qualifications.

* For the 2023 September entry, we only accept IELTS (Academic), TOEFL iBT, PTE (Academic), and XJTLU Password test.

**We do not accept MyBest Scores of TOFEL iBT or a combination of test scores taken at different times for any accepted English proficiency tests.

English Language exemption requirements

You will qualify for an exemption from the English language requirement if one of the following applies to you:

You are a national of a majority English-speaking country:

Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Canada, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, New Zealand, St Kitts and Nevis, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, USA, UK

You have fully completed/are completing a degree in a majority English-speaking country (Chinese joint venture programmes are not included). Your degree shall be conferred no earlier than 1 January 2021
You have fully completed/are completing a degree which has been taught and assessed in English (Chinese joint venture programmes are not included), and your degree shall be conferred no earlier than 1 January 2021 with an English proficiency letter issued by the institution. The English proficiency letter should:
be typed and printed on institutional letterhead
bear the seal/signature of the issuing authority
indicate your degree has been taught and assessed entirely in English

You have completed/are completing a degree from one of the universities listed below. Your degree shall be conferred no earlier than 1 January 2021:

Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, New York University Shanghai, Wenzhou-Kean University, Duke Kunshan University, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Beijing Normal University-HongKong Baptist University United International College (aka UIC), Guangdong Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

Note: If you qualify for an English Language exemption and provide a valid IELTS/TOEFL iBT/PTE score when you submit application, we will access IELTS/TOEFL iBT/PTE score as evidence of your level of English proficiency.

If you miss the English language requirements by 0.5 of an overall IELTS band but meet the language requirements for the Pre-sessional English (PSE) Course(including minimum component scores or equivalents), you may be accepted onto the PSE course subject to Programme Director’s approval. Upon successful completion of the PSE course, you will be able to change your XJTLU Master’s offer letter to ‘Unconditional’ for English level.

Conditional offer holders

If you are a conditional offer holder, you can also send an email to pgadmissions@xjtlu.edu.cn to apply to take the onsite Password English language test provided by XJTLU in lieu of an IELTS/TOEFL or its equivalent.

Please note that the Password Test is only available to students who have been issued a conditional offer to study at XJTLU. In principle, the University provides one Password Test opportunity for each conditional offer holder.

Password English test fee: 500 RMB/per test/per person

The test fee payment manual will be included in the formal Password test notification.

The test schedule of the 2023 Password test will be available soon, and it will be released once the test schedule is confirmed.

XJTLU strives to adopt and adhere to recognised international standards in providing equality of opportunity, and fairness in admissions process and decision-making. We evaluate each application on its individual merits and in comparison with other applications. We do not guarantee to make an offer to all applicants who have met or are predicted to meet the minimum entry requirements.