Many universities require international PhD students who will work as teaching assistants to pass some variation of Michigan Test Battery. I took one at Texas A&M a few years ago. The test was not required if you did not teach i.e. If you were supported through an RA ship throughout. Domestic students were exempt.
Vikram On Monday, February 2, 2015, Nancy Karraker <nkarra...@uri.edu <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','nkarra...@uri.edu');>> wrote: > About 10 years ago, Idaho State had a language proficiency requirement for > their Ph.D. program in Biology. I am not sure if they still do. > > Nancy > > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:37 PM, David Inouye <ino...@umd.edu> wrote: > > > I know Univ. of NC still had a requirement in mid-1970s as I had to take > > an exam then, and my son had to take one at Duke in the 1990s. Are there > > still any Ph.D. programs that require students take a language exam? > > Typically students had to read a paper in the chosen language, and then > > answer questions about it posed by a faculty member or committee to > confirm > > comprehension. So just a reading requirement, not spoken. > > > > David Inouye > > > > > > -- >
