Appalachian State University

Appalachian State is a public university in Boone, in the North Carolina mountains, part of the UNC System, offering 191 undergraduate programmes with recognised strength in education, sustainable development, business and environmental studies. Its most distinctive feature for a Kazakh applicant is the English waiver. App State requires test scores only from applicants who have not had at least one academic year of English-medium instruction — a one-year standard, the shortest documented anywhere, and a genuine advantage for an NIS graduate. Its costs are moderate for a US public university, with a reported out-of-state total cost of attendance around USD 44,600 on campus. Note that a course-by-course NACES evaluation is required only to transfer previous university credit, not for first-year entry, and App State names The Evaluation Company as its recommended provider with a discounted rate.