The Graduate School administers Foreign Language Proficiency Assessments for enrolled, degree seeking graduate students who have a foreign language proficiency requirement as part of their degree program. The assessments are offered as an alternative to coursework (601/602 language courses) for those students who have proficiency in a language but may not have a documented means of showing it.

The assessments are reading proficiency exams equivalent to a final exam in a 602 course. Principally, the exams include the translation of a prescribed general interest text and a section focused on reading comprehension skills. The Latin exam is entirely translation of passages from major classical literary texts.

Assessments are automatically offered in French, German, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. The Graduate School will work to make accommodations for other foreign languages upon request but cannot guarantee availability.