African Country Requirements

• Diplôme ďIngénieur (4-6 years)
• Licence
• Maîtrise
• The Certificat ďAptitude au Professorat de ľEnseignement Secondaire/CAPES (Certificate of Professional Ability in Secondary School Teaching)

• Unofficial bulletins de notes, relevés de notes, academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution.)

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required. 

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• Official Language: French
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: French

_{Revised: May 2025}

• Bachelor degree or Bachelor degree (Honours)*

• Unofficial Transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma.

Please note: Applicants who are in the final year of their bachelor’s degree can be considered for provisional admission.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Grading Scale 2 

Award Classification

Please Note:  The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records.

• Official Languages: English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: May 2025}

• Diplôme de Licence (Diploma of Licentiate)
• Diplôme ďIngénieur Civil (Civil Engineering Diploma)
• Diplôme ďIngénieur Industriel (Industrial Engineer Diploma)
• Diplôme de Licencié Agrégé de ľEnseignement Secondaire (Aggregated Licentiate in Secondary Teaching)
• Baccalauréat (Baccalaureate)*

*Please note: Beginning in 2010-2011, in response to the Bologna Process in Europe, Burundi implemented the Baccalauréat-Mastère-Doctorat (BMD) education cycle). The Baccalauréat is a first cycle degree and awarded upon completion of three years of university study (180 ECTS credits). 

What to Submit into Your Online Application

• Unofficial relevés de notes/transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained, and
• Graduation certificates or diplomas (e.g. Diplôme, Licence), and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution). 

Please note: Applicants who are in the final year of their bachelor’s degree can be considered for provisional admission.

After Admission Decision

• Official graduation certificates and relevé de notes issued by the Ministry of Education or attested by the awarding institution.

Grading Scale 1

Grading Scale 2

Grading Scale 3

European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) Grading Scale*

Please Note:

• One academic year corresponds to 60 ECTS credits.
• Rough equiv. 2:1 ratio - 2 ECTS credits = 1 US semester credit.
• A ‘first cycle’ (or bachelor's) degree consists of either 180 or 240 ECTS credits. A ‘second cycle’ (or master's) degree equates to 90 or 120 ECTS credits. 

• Official Language: Kirundi - Burundi has only one African language, Kirundi, which is studied through secondary school.
• Principal language of instruction: French.

_{Revised: May 2025}

• Diplome de Licence (Francophone)
• Diplôme ďIngénieur  (Francophone)
• 3 and 4-year bachelor's degrees (Anglophone)
• The Diplôme ďAptitude des Entreprises (Francophone)
• Certificat d'Aptitude au Professorat de l'Enseignement Secondaire (CAPES) (Francophone)

• Unofficial bulletins de notes/relevés de notes/transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual grades/marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely  issued in English by the institution.)

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required. 

Please Note:  The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records.

• Official Language: English and French
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English and French

_{Revised: May 2025}

• Maîtrise
• Bachelor's degree
• Diplôme ďIngénieur

What to Submit into Your Online Application

• Unofficial diplômes/diplomas/attestations de réussite/bulletins de notes/relevés de notes/transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required.

*50% is the minimum passing grade

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records.

• Official Language: French
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: French

_{Revised: May 2025}

• Bachelor's degree
• Maîtrise
• Diplôme ďIngénieur

• Unofficial diplômes/diplomas/attestations de réussite/bulletins de notes/relevés de notes/transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, a copy of the diploma is needed, and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Grading Scale 1

Official Language and/or Language of Instruction

• Official Language: French
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: French

_{Revised: May 2025}

• Baccalaureos
• Bachelor's degree
• A Diploma from a higher institute
• Licence or Exceptional License

• Unofficial transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required. 

Grading Scale 1

Used in the university faculties of arts, languages, Islamic studies, archaeology, commerce, economics, political scence, law, mass communication, and also at the Open Univeristy, the Sadat Academy, and tourism institutes.

Grading Scale 2

Used in health science faculties.

Grading Scale 3

Used in faculties of education, engineering, fine arts, technology, social services, urban planning, and veterinary medicine.

Grading Scale 4

Used for graduate programs.

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records.

• Official Language: Arabic
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: Arabic

_{Revised: May 2025}

• Before 2003 - BA = 4 years, BS = 4 - 6 years
• After 2003 - BA = 3 years, BS = 3 - 6 years

• Unofficial transcripts issued in English containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual grades obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma.

After Admission Decision Submit

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Grading Scale 1

Grading Scale 2

European Credit Transfer System (ECTS) Grading Scale*

Grading Scale - Francophone System

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with academic records.

Credit Value Information

• One academic year corresponds to 60 ECTS credits.
• Rough equiv. 2:1 ratio - 2 ECTS credits = 1 US semester credit.
• A ‘first cycle’ (or bachelor's) degree consists of either 180 or 240 ECTS credits. A ‘second cycle’ (or master's) degree equates to 90 or 120 ECTS credits. 

• Official Language: Amharic (government working language), Oromo, Somali, Afar, and Tigrinya
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: May 2025}

• 4-year bachelor’s degrees

• Unofficial transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual grades obtained.
• If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, a copy of the degree certificate is needed.

After Admission Decision Submit

• Official final transcripts will be required.

University of The Gambia Grading Scale

The Gambia College Grading Scale

Please Note: The Gambia College does not offer Bachelor’ degrees – they offer certificates and diplomas, etc. But it is included here for reference if a student has attended here and then finished a degree at The University of the Gambia.

The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with academic records.

Official Language and/or Language of Instruction

• Official Language: English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: May 2025}

• 4 year bachelor's degrees
• GCE A-levels plus 3 year bachelor's degrees*

What to Submit into Your Online Application

• Unofficial transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks/grades obtained.
• If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your degree certificate.

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts sent directly by the institution attended.

Award Classification

Grading Scale

Nursing and Midwifery Training Colleges

University of Ghana grading scale

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST)

Official Language and/or Language of Instruction

• Official Language: English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Edcuation: English

_{Revised: May 2025}

• 4 year bachelor's degrees
• Higher Diploma (1 year) plus Diploma (3-years) - Issued by Kenya Medical Training College*

• Unofficial transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma.

Please note: Applicants who are in the final year of their bachelor’s degree can be considered for provisional admission.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Grading Scale 1

Award Classification

Grading Scale 2

(This is also used for Ordinary and Higher Education Diploma Grading Scale)  

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

Official Language and/or Language of Instruction

• Official Language: Swahili and English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: June 2025}

•  4-years bachelor's degree or bachelor's degree (Honours)*

• Unofficial transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records.

• Official Language: Sesotho and English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English 

_{Revised: June 2025}

• 4-years bachelor's degree or bachelor's degree (Honours) *

• Unofficial transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma.

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required.

• Official Language: English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English 

• License 
• Diplôme ďIngénieur
• Ingenieur Agronome

• Unofficial Bulletins de notes/relevés de notes/transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

•  Official final transcripts will be required.

*Grades of 18 – 20 are rarely given. There is no grade of D in Madagascar. However, as with most countries that are patterned after the French educational system, grades of 8 and 9, which are normally failing grades, may be accepted as a “condoned pass” (U.S. grade of D) provided the overall grade average for the year (moyenne general) is 10.0 / 20, or higher. This is at the discretion of the institution’s administrators, and, at the post-secondary level, students may be required to re-take, in a future term, the course for which they received a “condoned pass.”*

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records_. 

• Official Language: Malagasy and French
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: French

_{Revised: May 2025}

• 4 year bachelor's degrees  

• Unofficial transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

Please note: Applicants who are in the final year of their bachelor’s degree can be considered for provisional admission.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• Official Language: English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: June 2025}

• Licence
• Licence d’Etudes Fondamentales (post 2003)
• Licence Professionnelle (post 2003) - may enter a master’s program if they have relevant work experience on a case-by-case basis.
• Diplôme d'ingenieur d'Etat (pre-2003)

• Unofficial diploma supplement/relevés de notes or academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

Please note: Applicants who are in the final year of their bachelor’s degree can be considered for provisional admission.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records.

Official Language and/or Language of Instruction

• Official Language: Arabic and Moroccan Berber
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: Arabic and French

_{Revised: July 2025}

• 3 years of Bacharelato (Baccalaureate) followed by 2 years of Licenciatura (Licentiate)

• Unofficial diploma supplement/relevés de notes or academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

Please note: Applicants who are in the final year of their bachelor’s degree can be considered for provisional admission.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

• Official Language: Portuguese
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: Portuguese

• 4 year bachelor's degree (Honours)
• GCE A Levels plus 3 year bachelor's degree      

• Unofficial transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma.

Please note: Applicants who are in the final year of their bachelor’s degree can be considered for provisional admission.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

• Official Language: English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

• 4-year bachelor's degrees

• Unofficial transcripts/academic records containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your degree certificate.

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required. 

Grading Scale 2 - 5 Scale

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• The Postgraduate Diploma represents attainment of a level of education comparable to 1 year of undergraduate study in the United States. Credit may be recommended on a course-by-course basis.
• The Postgraduate Diploma, however, when awarded as an early exit option from a master's degree program, represents attainment of a level of education comparable to 1 year of graduate study in the United States.

• HND holders, who do not have a bachelor's degree, may pursue a postgraduate diploma to gain entry into a master's degree program.
• Bachelor's degree holders in a non-education field may subsequently pursue a Postgraduate Diploma in Education to become a teacher.
• Bachelor's degree holders, who seek entry into a master's degree program in a different field of study, on the basis of completing a postgraduate diploma in that new field.
• Bachelor's degree holders with a low "GPA", who seek entry into a master's degree program, on the basis of performing well in a postgraduate diploma program.

• Official Language: English
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English 

_{Revised: July 2025}

• Bachelor's (Honours)
• Bachelor's (Ordinary)

• Unofficial diploma supplement or academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Grading Scale 2

Gradings Scale 3 - Franchophone system

Please Note:  The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• Official Language: English, French, Kinyarwanda, and Kiswahili
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: July 2025}

• 4-year bachelor’s degrees consisting of 480 credits (NQF level 8)
• 4-year Honors degrees (120 credits beyond 3-year bachelor’s degrees)
• Higher Diploma in Education (HDipEd)
• Postgraduate Diploma

• Unofficial diploma supplement or academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records.

• Official Language: Seped, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda, Xitsonga, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa and isiZulu.
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: November 2025}

• 4-year bachelor's degrees

• Unofficial diploma supplement or academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

• Official final transcripts will be required.

• English

• 3-year bachelor’s degrees (with advanced certificates)
• 4-year bachelor’s degrees  
• Advanced Diplomas
• Technical Bachelor degrees *

• Unofficial diploma supplement or academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your degree certificate.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: English

_{Revised: October 2023}

• Certificat de Licence 
• Certificat de Maitrise (Certificate of Master)
• Master Recherche (Research Master)
• Diplome d’Ingenieur (Diploma of Engineer)                                                        

• Unofficial bulletins de notes/relevés de notes/academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Diplômes/attestations de réussite/diplomas, and
• Authorized word-for-word English translation of all academic documents, (unless academic records and diplomas are routinely issued in English by the institution).

After Admission Decision

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note:  The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• Official Language: French
• Language of Instruction in Higher Education: French

• 3-year bachelor's degrees (when students had A-levels or diplomas prior to entering bachelor's program)
• 4-year bachelor's degrees                 

• Unofficial academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma and
• Diplômes/attestations de réussite/diplomas.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Diploma/Certificate Award Classification

• English

_{Revised: March 2022}

• 4-year bachelor’s degrees                                                                                     

• Unofficial academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note: The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• English

_{Revised: May 2018}

• 4 year bachelor's degree (Honours)
• GCE A Levels plus 3 year bachelor's degree

• Unofficial academic transcripts containing a complete record of all courses taken and individual marks obtained. If transcripts do not list the date of graduation, please upload a copy of your diploma.

• Official final transcripts will be required.

Please Note:The information above is not complete, but rather represents the most common credentials and grading scales from this country. Check your transcripts for your institutional  grading scale and if different, please upload it with your academic records. 

• English

_{Revised: May 2018}