BUSCA offers an inclusive, supportive learning community that focuses on the distinctive academic challenges of bilingual students. The BUSCA faculty, staff, and administration respect each individual student and strive to build on each student’s educational foundation, maximizing on academic strengths and actively addressing weaknesses.
BUSCA students are challenged by a rigorous liberal arts based curriculum that aims to help you develop a stronger foundational base of knowledge, improve academic and English language skills, deepen your intellectual curiosity, and increase self-confidence. Upon graduating with a valuable degree and sixty fully transferable credits into the bachelor’s degree program at La Salle, BUSCA graduates are equipped to pursue further education and to become lifelong learners and bilingual leaders in our communities, society, and the world.
To Apply for the Program:
Submit an official transcript from a secondary school, university, or GED
Present a letter of recommendation
Take an English Placement Test
Apply for state and federal grants and a student loan. Students who receive the complete financial aid package will study in BUSCA for free.
Participate in a personal interview
Make the commitment to learn English well in order to succeed