IELTS score of 6.5 with no band below 6.0, Toefl Pbt 565, Toefl ibt 85. Applicants may qualify if their research proposal is accepted, by a potential supervisor, and they satisfy one of the criteria listed below: a bachelor degree with first or second class honours in an appropriate area of study that includes a research thesis based on primary data, not only a literature review, or a master's degree by research in an appropriate area of study that includes a research thesis that draws on primary data, or a masters degree by coursework with a 12,000-15,000 word research thesis or dissertation that draws on primary data, not a literature review, with a grade point average of at least 80% in the degree.