Teaching English as a Second Language Graduate Certificate (50-998)

Students who successfully complete the TESL Graduate Certificate are eligible to apply to add K-12 ESOL (English to speakers of other languages) certification to an existing Missouri teaching certificate. A maximum of 6 semester hours of approved transfer credit may be applied to the certificate. For acceptance into this program, non-native speakers of English must score above 565 on the paper version or above 85 on the internet-based version of the International Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or earn a score of 7.0 or above on the academic version of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).