Admission Requirements
Transfer Credits Required
Students applying for admission to WTU’s degree-completion programs are expected to have earned at least 90 quarter credits through prior study, with significant progress having been made toward completion of Washington state’s general education requirements at the time of admission. These general education requirements are part of an associate or bachelor’s degree, and up to 55 credits may be transferred in.
Deficiencies of up to 15 credits will not preclude admission to WTU.
General education credits are expected to have been earned in the following specific categories:
- Communication 5 credits
- Quantitative Reasoning 5 credits
- Humanities 10 credits (2 different subject areas)
- Social Sciences 10 credits (2 different subject areas)
- Natural Sciences 10 credits (2 different subject areas)
- Must include 1 subject with a lab
- General Education Elective 5 credits
If these requirements have not been fully met by a student prior to admission, the student will receive advisement regarding how to make up the deficit over the period of his/her enrollment.
Language Proficiency
For admission to a Bachelor’s program at WTU, prospective students whose native language is not English – and who have not earned a degree from a college/university where English was the principal language of instruction – must demonstrate college-level proficiency in English. This may be done via:
- A score of 61 or above on the TOEFL Internet Based Test (iBT)
Since testing centers were closed due to COVID-19, a home version of the TOEFL test has been made available.
- Receive a minimum score of 44 on the Pearson Test of English Academic Score Report
- Receive a minimum score of 6.0 on the International English Language Test: IELTS Academic
If a student requiring an English proficiency test is unable to provide documentation of English language proficiency prior to admission, he or she may be admitted provisionally, pending an appropriate grade of the result of the test.