Hyderabad|India|Oct'2008: Andhra Pradesh and Indian students now can seek admissions into well respected 125 years old and USA’s 3rd safest campus, Concordia University, Wisconsin, USA granting master’s and bachelors degrees without TOEFL, GRE, GMAT and SAT.

"Neither the TOEFL nor the SAT is required for admission into our program. Further, at the graduate level, neither the GMAT nor the GRE are required for international or domestic students. 500 Indian youth including 150 State youth who didn’t have TOEFL, GRE, GMAT scores have applied and got American Visas to study at Concordia University" informed Mr. Anil Pendyala of Youth World who is representative of the Concordia University in Andhra Pradesh.

Founded in 1881, Concordia University is Lutherans Missionary. It is a home to over 5,400 students from 48 states and 38 countries from all over the world. Out of 5400 total students, the foreign students are just 500 and we would like to double that number in next one year. We have been a top-tier school by US News and World Report in the 2004 edition declared Dr. David in that letter. Even President of USA Geroge Bush visited the University.

To create awareness and to answer to queries of students two member delegation of the Concordia University Ms. Darlene Khalsa, Director of International Student Programming and Ms. Heidi Englebert, Coordinator of International Admissions will be visiting Hyderabad on October 13th and will stay in city till 15th. On 15 October, they will address a Free Seminar from 11.30am to 2.30pm at B.M.Birla Planetarium, Adarshnagar. Followed on the next day they will address a Free Seminar on October 16th at Hotel Green Park in Vishakhapatnam.

The objective this seminar is to create awarness among the youth and students that they can get admissions in some American Universities like Concordia University without standard tests like TOEFL, GRE and GMAT.

Our university places an emphasis on the grades of the students and will accept either first or second division students from India, informed Concordia University’s Executive Director Office of International Student Services Dr. David W. Borst in a letter issued to the candidates.

Speaking on the occasion Mr. P. Anil Kumar informed that it is the 3rd most safe campus in USA. Our core values match that of most of Indian, hence, they prefer our university.

The trend today in Indian education is to have global educational qualifications. India dominates the global demand for International education. The number of Indian students going abroad for studies has increased many times. Approximately 80,000 Indian students seek admissions in various US colleges/universities every year. The trend for obtaining foreign education is on an increase. In fact India remained the top position in the number of international students studying in the US for several year in succession.

Concordia attracts about 200 Indian students of which 150 are from Hyderabad alone.

Lakhs of Indian students every year are busy in test preparation for standards tests like TOEFL (Test Of English as a Foreign Language, to evaluate the English proficiency of people for whom English is not their native language ), GRE (Graduate Record Examination, it gauges undergraduate achievement in the eight disciplines), GMAT (Graduate Management Aptitude Test to check candidate’s verbal, mathematical and analytical skills), SAT ( The Scholastic Aptitude Test, that evaluates a student’s knowledge on specific subjects).

But, off late thanks to Concordia University, Wisconsin, they can seek admission into various courses without standard tests such as TOEFL, GMAT, GRE etc. And can seek admission into 48 undergraduate and graduate programs which include Computer Science, Business Management, Physiotherapy and many other programmes.

When asked how is that possible to give admission without TOEFL, Anil said like us there are many Universities, approximately 40 to 50 per cent of them today don’t look for excellence in proficiency. The trend is more and more Universities and colleges are going away from looking at rankings in these standard tests. India is an English speaking country. Indian is the single biggest English speaking country. Thee is no reason to look at language proficiency in Indian students, declared Anil

Hundreds and thousands of students in our state write these exams every year. And spend lot of time and money. But, very few fare very well in these exams. Those who couldn’t score well are disappointed lot. Now these need not worry. No matter, irrespective of your scores or whether you write those mandatory exams or not, you can still seek admissions in not only Concordia University but many other universities. But, unfortunately many students do not know of these universities which accommodate students without TOEFL/GRE/GMAT and others.

Hundred of students have got admissions and VISAs from the state of Andhra Pradesh into various programmes of the university in the last couple of years, informed Mr. Anil. Many students who desirous of global undergraduation/ graduation programmes can utilize this opportunity.