| English is the international language most widely taught in Indonesian Education from the primary to the higher level. At the university level, English competence is mainly required for academic reasons, such as comprehending reading materials, understanding lectures or seminars, and presenting a report, as well as the requirements for passing the subject. However, many university students still need help comprehending the learning materials provided in English due to inadequate understanding from the previous schools. This situation urges the researcher to do this study to design a syllabus for English for General Purposes (EGP), which can be used to help the pre-university be more guided for the learning process at the university level. Two research questions are offered for this study: (1) What are undergraduate students' general needs for English? (2) What is the design of the English syllabus for pre-university students to learn English for General Purposes? This study uses qualitative research with a needs analysis as the primary method to see the Present Situation Analysis (PSA), Learning Situation Analysis (LSA), and Target Situation Analysis (TSA) (Hutchinson & Waters, 1987). The analysis of the learner's needs uses triangulation for the analysis from the survey, interview, and classroom observation. It involves 116 participants in the survey, ten interviewees, and three classroom observations. The findings show that most pre-university students realize that English is essential in the learning process at the university level. The students considered they had sufficient English proficiency yet needed help comprehending the materials related to academic genres. The most important English skills needed are listening, reading, and speaking, including vocabulary and grammar. Based on the learners’ needs analysis, the present study proposes an integrated syllabus that combines a content-based and skills-based syllabus. It is designed for one semester, which consists of 14 meetings. The syllabus proposes a big theme, ‘Life at Campus,’ divided into 12 topics related to academics and life at university and two assessment sections. The proposed syllabus aims to help students be prepared for academic English learning and become familiar with it. |