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Procedures for Applying

There are three types of admission procedures: early, regular or transfer.

Early Admission

If you are in your final year of secondary school, you are encouraged to apply for early admission by submitting official grade reports from at least the last two years previous to the final year of secondary school and SAT scores (as applicable). Since seats are usually limited, it is especially important for applicants to the College of Engineering and the College of Architecture, Art and Design to apply early to reserve a seat. Moreover, applicants with the highest grades who have the required TOEFL score (and SAT scores as applicable) will be given priority in admission consideration.

Early admission is only offered to highly qualified applicants and is not considered final until students submit the following before being allowed to register for classes:

• a recognized and officially certified secondary school certificate or equivalent showing successful completion of secondary education
• all other items as requested in the letter of admission

Regular Admission

If you have completed your secondary school education and have a secondary school certificate, you can apply through the regular admission procedure. To do so, you must submit the following documents:

• a recognized and officially certified secondary school certificate or equivalent and the grades from the last three years of secondary schooling showing your grade average and class rank (if available)
• officially certified documentation of national secondary school final exams results (if taken)
• SAT scores (as applicable)

Transfer Applicants

Depending on available seats, candidates transferring from institutions of higher education may be considered for admission subject to the following conditions:

• They are in good academic standing, i.e., not on probation or dismissed from the institution from which they are transferring.
• They are transferring from a recognized and accredited institution of higher education offering learning experiences equivalent to those offered at AUS and have successfully completed one or more semesters in that institution. Moreover, the College of Engineering will not give transfer credit for engineering or computer science courses completed at academic programs not recognized by ABET, Inc.
• Prior to their admission to the institution from which they are transferring, they met the AUS requirements for admission.
• They meet the English language proficiency requirements of AUS.
• They submit official transcripts of their high school and college/university records along with the syllabi and descriptions of courses they seek to transfer.
• They achieved at their institution a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) as required by AUS for that type of institution.

Transfer applicants from four-year colleges/universities with a similar mission to AUS may be awarded transfer credits. The minimum required course grade(s) to be considered for credit transfer will depend on the institution the applicant is transferring from.

Courses taken more than five years prior to matriculation as an undergraduate student at AUS are not transferable.

Furthermore, of the total credits required for a degree, a maximum of 50 percent of the credits completed in residence at another institution can be transferred.

The decision regarding credits awarded is made solely by the appropriate academic division dean/department head at AUS. See the AUS catalog for further details.