A ‘close-to-the-customer’ language institute located in the heart of Manhattan, just a ‘stone’s throw’ from the Empire State Building, the Universal English Center specializes in helping international students strengthen their English skills. UEC encourages practical language learning in an extremely supportive setting. Offering high-level, comprehensive instruction at a reasonable cost, UEC is well known in the New York City Asian community for its language training programs.

The Universal English Center’s programs combine informal classes, intensive instruction, and the latest instructional technology to meet the objectives of its students. Individualized elective courses and workshops are also offered to address the special requirements of students.

Through lectures, seminars, tutorials, and excursions, UEC students receive a thorough orientation to New York City’s cosmopolitan resources. Students also learn about artistic and literary trends, the American higher education system, and United States history. Our ‘free conversation’ advanced class is especially popular. It enables foreign students to practice spoken English in a lively, intellectual atmosphere.

Students seeking admission to institutions of higher learning receive academic advisement and assistance in the preparation of essays, correspondence, and applications. UEC’s TOEFL course is designed to prepare college-bound students for the Educational Testing Service’s new ‘internet-based’ Test-of-English-as-a Foreign Language Examination, the ‘IBT’ as well as the City University of New York’s ‘admission test’.

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