Postgraduate Courses - direct entry

Entry onto our postgraduate Masters' courses requires an undergraduate/bachelor degree of equivalent standard to the British undergraduate/bachelor degree with a minimum grade equivalent to British second-class honours. To find out more about which qualification is acceptable from the country you studied in, please refer to our country-specific information page.

If you do not qualify for entry onto the master's degrees in our School of Business then you could consider applying for our International Incorporated Masters degrees (IIM). The pre-masters part of the course is delivered at Bangor University International College* (BUIC) by our partner Oxford International Education Group. You will then progress onto your chosen masters programme at Bangor University.

Bangor University may also recognise the relevant professional experience of 2 years or longer for entry onto our degree programmes. We strongly advise all such applicants to submit an online application which MUST be accompanied by the following documents, so that admission office can consider your candidature for the course you applied for;

Employer references - must include the title of the position(s) held and key responsibilities (e.g. decision making, line management, budgets, operations etc) in detail. And the letter must be printed on the official letterhead signed by the HR department or senior manager in the company. It will also help if you can include the company details like its organisation overview, nature of the business, and its operations in the letter.

Detailed CV - must include education and career history in detail; focussing on employers & the nature of their business, job responsibilities held, professional training & qualifications, and academic/professional achievements.

For Direct Entry, into the course, students have required 6 or 6.5 bands in the IELTS exam depending on the course in which they are applying with none of the modules less than 5.5.

Also, scores lower than IELTS 6.0 equivalent in any of these non-SELT and Online test scores will also be recognized for entry onto our Online Pre Sessional English courses. Candidates may consider gaining entry into the UK to study a pre-sessional English programme by means of a student visitor visa.