According to the 2025 enrollment plan just announced, Foreign Trade University has 3 ways to consider candidates with IELTS certificates: IELTS with high school transcripts; IELTS with high school graduation exam scores and IELTS with SAT/ACT/A-level.
Other international language certificates are also considered similarly.
In particular, the IELTS method of considering high school transcripts is only for students specializing in Math, Physics, Chemistry, IT, Literature, Foreign Languages and students with national prizes, students with provincial prizes (First, Second, Third) in these subjects; students who won national science and technology prizes.
In addition, candidates need to ensure an IELTS certificate of 6.5 or higher.
With SAT and ACT certificates, candidates need to achieve a minimum SAT score of 1,380 and ACT score of 30 to be eligible to apply. Meanwhile, from 2024 onwards, the school only requires SAT certificates of 1,260/1,600 and ACT 27/36
In the newly announced enrollment plan, the school has not yet specified how to calculate admission scores as well as the method of converting international language certificates and international competency certificates.
Candidates can refer to the method of calculating admission scores and converting IELTS and SAT scores in 2024 as follows:
In 2025, Foreign Trade University plans to enroll 4,150 students at three campuses in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Quang Ninh. Admission groups include A00 (Math, Physics, Chemistry), A01 (Math, Physics, English), D07 (Math, Chemistry, English), D00 (Literature, Math, Foreign languages: English, French, Chinese, Japanese, Russian). Candidates can see detailed admission information of the school HERE.