ASPIRE

Improve your English skills and embrace the future you aspire to create.

The ASPIRE program offers three engaging formats.

ASPIRE is an immersive English language program that provides opportunities for improving communication skills while exploring real-world topics and themes that shape our interconnected world. Offered in three formats, ASPIRE, ASPIRE Intensive and ASPIRE Online, the program is dynamic, student-centered, and connects to personal interests and everyday life. An integrated skills program, with an emphasis on speaking and listening, ASPIRE is also about experiential learning—moving students beyond the classroom where UBC’s campus as well as Vancouver destinations and communities serve as vibrant extensions of the classroom.

Guided by UBC’s commitment to inspiring people, ideas and actions for a better world, ASPIRE empowers students to build confidence and form meaningful connections while pursuing personal, academic or professional language goals.

The ELI Placement Test is used to place students in the appropriate level before the program begins.