{"id":1409,"date":"2023-07-13T07:56:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T07:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/admission-requirements\/postgraduate-admission-requirements\/"},"modified":"2023-07-13T08:41:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T08:41:14","slug":"postgraduate-admission-requirements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/admission-requirements\/postgraduate-admission-requirements\/","title":{"rendered":"Postgraduate admission requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postgraduate Studies by Coursework<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For admission into Curtin Malaysia, you must&nbsp;provide evidence of completion of a degree from a&nbsp;recognised university and provide evidence of&nbsp;English language proficiency. In addition, you may&nbsp;need to meet specific course prerequisites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As all courses at Curtin Malaysia are taught in&nbsp;English, you will need to meet Curtin\u2019s English&nbsp;Language requirements based on the completion of a&nbsp;bachelor&#8217;s degree course in which English was the&nbsp;language of instruction. This will be assessed on a&nbsp;case-by-case basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any one of the tests in the following table can also&nbsp;be accepted as satisfying Curtin\u2019s English language&nbsp;requirement:<br>Minimum English Language Entry Requirements<br>Results for IELTS and TOEFL are valid for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"table-block\" data-segment=\"all\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-stripes\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>English Language Test<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Score<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>IELTS<\/strong><br>Writing and Speaking<br>Reading and Listening<br>Overall Band Score<\/td><td><br>6.0*<br>6.0*<br>6.5*<\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)<\/strong><\/td><td>79 (band minimum<br>W-21, L-13, R-13,<br>S-18)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">*<em>Different programmes require different IELTS results. Each application is assessed on a case-by-case basis.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Postgraduate Studies by Research<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicants for Master of Philosophy must have&nbsp;completed a bachelor&#8217;s degree with first or second-class honours or their equivalent; a postgraduate&nbsp;diploma or its equivalent; or a bachelor&#8217;s degree with superior performance, together with relevant and&nbsp;substantial work experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicants for a Doctor of Philosophy must have&nbsp;completed a master&#8217;s by research degree or bachelor&#8217;s&nbsp;degree with first or upper-second-class honours.&nbsp;Applicants who have only completed a Bachelor&#8217;s pass&nbsp;degree may also be considered if they can&nbsp;demonstrate superior academic achievement,&nbsp;significant research or work experience, and the&nbsp;capacity to undertake significant research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applications for higher degrees by research can be&nbsp;made at any time of the year. You will need to&nbsp;consult the Dean, Curtin Malaysia Graduate School,&nbsp;Faculty Postgraduate Studies Coordinator, Dean of&nbsp;Faculty, Head of Department or any individual&nbsp;academic staff member in the relevant teaching area&nbsp;to discuss the suitability of your proposed research&nbsp;topic. You will also need to meet&nbsp;Curtin\u2019s entry&nbsp;requirements and ensure that a supervisor and&nbsp;facilities are available to accommodate your&nbsp;research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postgraduate Studies by Coursework For admission into Curtin Malaysia, you must&nbsp;provide evidence of completion of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":903,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1409","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1409\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtin.edu.my\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}