English as a Second Language

For International Teaching Assistants and MBAs

The oral ESL program is designed to help international Ph.D. students (for whom English is not their first language), funded Masters' students and MBAs raise their English proficieny to a level that enables them to be able to teach, function in the business world and present in English.

For those graduate students who do not show adequate proficiency in speaking as measured by the iBT TOEFL, IELTS, TSE or the SPEAK Test, three levels of ESL course work are offered at the graduate level:

ESL 591 Intermediate Oral/Aural Skills

ESL 596 High Intermediate Oral/Aural Skills

ESL 598 Advanced Oral/Aural Skills

(Undergraduates may elect a cross listed ESL 191 or ESL 198)

• SBU's English Language Proficiency Standards
• Graduate Course Descriptions
• SPEAK Test Information