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Yes, IELTS is considered an acceptable test score for admissions at UNC Wilmington. The language test score requirements are applicable to international students who have not pursued their education from an institute with first language being English or do not satisfy the minimum SAT or ACT score requirement.

UNCW also accepts TOEFL, Duolingo, Pearson & iTEP Academic as valid test scores.

The test score requirements for PG student vary with courses, for UG students, these are listed below:

A comparison of University of Southern California with Arizona State University over the years for the Financial Times MBA rankings is given below.

UNC Wilmington attains a global university rank #763 as per Global University Rankings, rolled out by Shiksha.

On a national-level, UNCW ranks #251, while its courses also perform reasonably as part of the latest Shiksha course-specific rankings, as seen below:

Financial Times Rankings is known to publish Business School and MBA rankings for universities since 1999. University of Southern California has been ranked at #50 according to the Financial Times MBA rankings 2025. Some of the other FT MBA rankings of the university are given as follows:

As per national public university rankings rolled out by a popular university ranking publication, the University of North Carolina Wilmington ranks #103 in the US.

Among all universities that form part of the University of North Carolina education system, only UNC Chapel Hill & NC State University ranked above UNCW.

UNC Wilmington ranks just outside the top 250 colleges & universities in USA, securing a rank #251 as part of the latest country-level rankings given by Shiksha.

Further, on a global level, the institute attains the rank: #763 among all higher educational institutes ranked globally by Shiksha as part of its the latest Global University Rankings.