Our courses support all the various academic departments by offering intermediate to advanced English courses to help prepare students to enter and succeed in their various fields of study. ESL classes are small, ranging in size from five to twenty students and are taught by trained and experienced teachers using interactive, communicative teaching styles. The classes focus on the academic English skills students need to be successful at the university level. Special emphasis is given to teaching advanced listening, speaking and reading skills, as well as complex English grammatical forms and structures, and academic composition. After admission and subsequent arrival in Indianapolis, they take the ESL Program Placement Test for accurate placement into the program courses.
Students then meet with their academic advisor to plan their studies.
Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis is a unique urban learning environment of more than 27,000 students representing 100 countries. International students come from all over the world to study here and to learn about American culture in the safe mid-western city of Indianapolis, Indiana . Indianapolis is the prosperous and expanding capital and largest city in Indiana, but is surrounded by the rolling farmland for which the state is famous. Chicago, Cincinnati, and Louisville are all within a three-hour s drive. Although Indianapolis is a cosmopolitan urban center of over one million people, the city is very spread out.