High School Equivalency

If you earned high school equivalency through the General Educational Development (GED) testing program, please send a copy of your GED Certificate and scores to the Office of Admission along with a copy of your high school transcripts.

Deadlines for 2008-09 Application Materials

Application
Spring 2008 January 2, 2008
Summer 2008 May 23, 2008
Fall 2008 August 8, 2008
Spring 2009 January 2, 2009

Credentials
Spring 2008 January 4, 2008
Summer 2008 May 30, 2008
Fall 2008 August 22, 2008
Spring 2009 January 9, 2009

Note: An admissions application is renewable for one year from the term for which a student initially applies.

Special Admissions Categories

International students should contact the International Programs Office at BGSU, 419-372-2247, for information on requirements and application procedures.

Students who wish to take classes at BGSU Firelands but do not plan to seek a degree can attend as “guest” students. Registration for “guest” students does not require application to BGSU and is arranged by the Office of Registration and Records.

Foreign Language Requirement

Admission to Bowling Green State University includes a requirement for a language other than English. The foreign language requirement applies only to students seeking a baccalaureate degree. The requirement is typically satisfied through completion of two units of the same language other than English in high school.

If this requirement is not fulfilled at the time of admission to the University, it may be satisfied in one of two ways.

• For those students who have not completed study of a language other than English in high school, satisfactory completion of two semesters of the same language (other than English) at the university level.
• For students who have acquired a language other than English through experience (e.g., heritage speakers) or who have learned it through prior study (e.g., classical language in a foreign school), credit by examination may be used to fulfill this admission requirement.

The following conditions and stipulations also apply:

1. Students who have a documented (through Disabilities Services) learning disability in acquisition of a new language may substitute courses taught in English from BGSU’s existing list of acceptable substitute courses.
2. American Sign Language will fulfill this admission requirement.
3. Computer programming languages will not fulfill this admission requirement.
4. The Foreign Language Admission Requirement will apply to transfer students who have completed fewer than 30 semester hours of credit-bearing, post-secondary courses but will not apply to those students who have completed 30 or more semester hours of credit-bearing, post-secondary courses at BGSU Firelands or at another college or university (as per the Transfer Students policy).

Office of Admission - BGSU Firelands
One University Drive - Huron, OH 44839
Phone: 419.433.5560 - Email: fireadm@bgsu.edu