{"id":81,"date":"2012-07-30T11:42:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T15:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T19:19:14","slug":"international-students","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/admissions\/international-students\/","title":{"rendered":"International Students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All prospective international students should\u00a0visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/isso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">International Students and Scholars Office<\/a> for more information about the BU policies and procedures related to international students. All international students who wish to have their previous educational endeavors outside of the US, Canada and the United Kingdom count towards the admission prerequisites must have their academic record reviewed and verified by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">World Educational Services (WES)<\/a> transcript service. Prerequisite course requirements for international applicants are the same as all applicants.<\/p>\n<p>For those\u00a0who speak English as a second language\u00a0and those who did not complete 4 years of undergraduate education in the United States, Canada or the United Kingdom, English language fluency examinations are also required.\u00a0 Please see the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ets.org\/toefl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TOEFL<\/a> website for more details. Minimum scores for the TOEFL exam are: \u00a026 (reading), 26 (listening), 26 (speaking), and 28 (writing).<\/p>\n<h5>Other Cosiderations:<\/h5>\n<p><span>Some of our clinical rotation sites require students to have a US issued social security number. If you do not have a SSN and do not qualify for one, it will limit rotation sites available to you during the clinical phase.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All prospective international students should\u00a0visit the International Students and Scholars Office for more information about the BU policies and procedures related to international students. All international students who wish to have their previous educational endeavors outside of the US, Canada and the United Kingdom count towards the admission prerequisites must have their academic record reviewed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6286,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4169,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/4169"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/paprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}