Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) in Professional Writing

The University of Waikato

Candidates for the Postgraduate Diploma

• qualified for a bachelors degree of the University of Waikato or a qualification considered by the Academic Board to be equivalent, or
• demonstrated to the satisfaction of the Academic Board that they have adequate training, experience, and ability to proceed with the proposed programme, and
• satisfied the prerequisites for graduate study in the subject being taken for the Postgraduate Diploma, including having achieved a B grade average either: over the best 120 points of their major; or over the 300 level papers completed that are listed for their major's subject.

English Language Requirements

• an Academic IELTS Overall score of at least 6.5 (with no less than 6.0 in any band), or
• a TOEFL iBT (Internet Based TOEFL) score of 90 with a Writing score of 21, or
• a TOEFL iBT Home Edition overall score of 90 with a Writing score of 21, or
• a B grade or better at Level 8 in the Certificate of Attainment in Academic English, or
• a PTE Academic overall score of 56 with no band less than 46, or
• a Language Cert International ESOL (LRWS) C1 Expert with an overall high pass and no less than a pass in each skill, or
• a Language Cert International ESOL (LRWS) B2 Communicator with 38-50 score per skill, or
• awarded a New Zealand Certificate in English Language (Academic) (Level 5), or
• a Trinity College London Integrated Skills in English (ISE) III with a pass in all four components, or
• a B2 First (formally known as Cambridge English: First (FCE)) with an overall score of 176 and no bands below 169, or
• a C2 Proficiency (formally known as Cambridge English: Proficiency (CPE)) with an overall score of 176 and no bands below 169, or
• a Michigan English Test (formally known as Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB)) minimum score of 59.