What IELTS score does SAIT require?

SAIT does not accept assessment tests taken more than 12 months before you submit your application, half the two years most colleges allow. If you get an application transfer or deferral and a year has passed, you must send new results.

An overall IELTS score is not stated by SAIT; only the 6.0 per-skill minimum. A position on IELTS One Skill Retake and on IELTS Online is not stated by SAIT, and it keeps the right to use discretion on English.

Three years of full-time English-medium secondary school, two years of English-medium post-secondary study, a C or better in a post-secondary English or communications course, or both COMN155 and SPCH155 in SAIT's English Language Foundations program also count. SAIT lists recognized alternatives at private language schools, several pegged to IELTS 6.0 or 6.5 in each skill.

SAIT's scores decide admission only. IRCC sets no minimum English score for a study permit; any language condition is written into your letter of acceptance (see IELTS for a Canada study permit). The Post-Graduation Work Permit is a separate test again. IRCC's PGWP eligibility page asks for CLB 7 in all four skills if you graduate with a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree or from any other university program, and CLB 5 for any other college, polytechnic or non-university program, so a bachelor's degree earned at a college still needs CLB 7. On IELTS General Training, CLB 7 is 6.0 in every skill and CLB 5 is Reading 4.0 and Writing, Listening and Speaking 5.0 (IRCC score table). The PGWP takes IELTS General Training, CELPIP-General or PTE Core, not IELTS Academic, and college programs also face a field-of-study rule if you applied for your study permit on or after 1 November 2024 (see IELTS for the PGWP).