Application Information
Admissions Criteria
- Fall Deadline: Feb. 1
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree or its equivalent
- Minimum GPA: 3.0 preferred
- Minimum GRE score: Verbal + Quantitative = 306, preferred
- Minimum English Proficiency Requirements
Test type | Total Score | Reading | Listening | Speaking | Writing |
TOEFL-Internet | 80 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
TOEFL-Paper | 550 | 52 | 52 | n/a | 52 |
IELTS Academic | 6.5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
Application Materials
- MU Office of Graduate Studies online application
- Transcripts
- Official GRE results
- English Proficiency Exam results (international students only)
- Three letters of recommendation
- A curriculum vitae or resume
- 500-word personal statement/statement of interest
- One example of scholarly work
- Completion of the Faculty Interest Document, identifying 1-3 faculty members (See our faculty here.)
- An interview is required for admission to the program.