How to Apply

Application Steps:

There are four steps to the application

• First Step:  Email epde@indiana.edu to express your interest and to create your profile in the EPDE system. Indicate clearly whether you are interested in the teaching certificate or teacher trainer certificate.

• Second Step: Complete online application

Once you have created your account in the Apply Yourself section,complete the "Application Information" section of the application:

            ► In the "Academic Program" row, choose "Education Nondegree Programs"

            ► In the "Academic Plan" row, choose "Lit Clt & Lang Ed Grad Nondegree"

Please be sure to state in the personal essay that you are applying to the EFL/ESL Program via Distance Education (EPDE).

• Third Step: Obtain the following documents:

a.    Official transcripts for all colleges/universities attended for nine or more credit hours (sealed in an envelope).

b.    A transcript of three or more graduate courses taken from an institution of higher learning. (This document is not necessary if the applicant has not taken graduate level courses). 

c.    TOEFL score of 550 or higher for the written version, 213 or higher for the computer-based version, or 79 or higher for the Internet-based version (International Students only)

d.     An updated resume. 

• Fourth Step: Submit the documents in the Third Step to one of the applicable addresses below:

 United States Citizens

      Indiana University
School of Education
Office of Graduate Studies
Room 4214
W.W. Wright Education Building
201 North Rose Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-1006

 International Applicants

      International Admissions
Indiana University
300 N. Jordan Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7700
USA

Application Review

Applications will not be reviewed until you have officially submitted the application form, paid the application fee, and sent the supporting paper documents.

Application Deadlines

There is no application deadline for the EPDE certificate programs. You can apply to our program any time during the year. All certificate programs begin with the start of each academic semester. (Indiana University's Academic Calendar)