Second Language Proficiency

If you graduated from high school in spring 1997 or later, or if you took the GED in June 1997 or later, you must demonstrate second-language proficiency to be admitted to the UO.

You can fulfill the second language admission requirement in the following ways:

1. Completing high school or college credit with a grade of C- or better

• Two years of the same high school-level second language, or
• The third year of high school-level second language, or
• Two quarters or semesters of a college-level second language

2. Proficiency-based assessment options

• OUS/PASS second language proficiency assessment (Benchmark IV on COFLT Oral Assessment), or
• Demonstrated proficiency in American Sign Language (ASL) (Benchmark III), or
• ACTFL oral proficiency interview

3. Other recommended options

• Satisfactory performance (grade of C- or higher at 101 and 102 course level) on a Brigham Young Foreign Language Assessment, or
• Score of 530 or higher (500 if taken prior to May 1995) on the SAT Subject Test or
• Score of 2 or higher on an Advanced Placement Foreign Language Test, or
• Score of 4 or higher on an International Baccalaureate High Level Foreign Language Exam, or
• Score of 40 or higher on a CLEP Foreign Language Exam, or
• Satisfactory performance on a college second language departmental challenge exam
• Education satisfactorily completed through seventh grade in school or country where English is not the language of instruction.

Students admitted as exceptions to the second-language requirement are required to complete two college terms of the same second language before graduating from the University of Oregon.

Address questions about demonstrating second-language proficiency to the Office of Admissions.