My name is Brian Gross, and I'm the dean of admissions at the University of Bridgeport.

The University of Bridgeport has over 5000 students from 80 countries around the world and all 50 states in the United States.

Our top students come from India, China, Taiwan, Nepal, throughout the Middle East and throughout the entire world.

There's a number of reasons why students come to the University of Bridgeport.

I think first and foremost, it's because of our world renowned academic programs.

Way offer masters degrees in computer science, computer engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, biomedical engineering.

And we have an incredible MBA program where students could actually earn a concentration in a certain certain area, such as global financial services.

University of Bridge Board is actually located in the largest city of Connecticut.

Fairfield County is known as the corporate Gold Coast because of the large concentration of Fortune 500 companies right in our area.

In addition, we're located just one hour from New York City, which offers our students countless opportunities for social, cultural and academic opportunities.

Also, more than 70% of our students are currently pursuing a cpt or internship opportunity, which ends up to lead to their optional practical training after they graduate at the University of Bridge Board.

We have career driven programs that really help our students obtain the internships and jobs that they will need to help them fill their goals at the graduate level.

The University of Bridgeport requires an 81 on the total IBT, and at the undergraduate level, we require a 60 on the total IBT.

One of the wonderful benefits of the University of Bridgeport is that we also have a full English language institute.

A student can be conditionally admitted into an academic program.

Come to the University of Bridgeport, study English language in our English language institute and once they've successfully completed our English language institute can then immediately begin their academic degree program.

So we use the total for a number of reasons for direct admittance into our academic programs and also into place for placement into our English language institute.

This allows our students maximum flexibility and convenience for both studying English and earning their degree.

We find that total is the world's leader in terms of being recognized as being the premier evaluator of students.

English language skills at the University of Bridgeport.

We've experienced over the years that students who have both taken and met our criteria for the total have been most prepared to succeed in our academic classroom in the academic classroom.