| 1. Prospective graduate students are required to obtain written agreement from a faculty member in the Department willing to serve as their Graduate Advisor (for MS or PhD program) before admission can occur. Prospective students are responsible for contacting WEC faculty with research interests in common to their own, and establishing a mutual understanding with a faculty member who agrees to serve as Graduate Advisor. Applications to the department can be made before this to facilitate establishment of contacts between prospective students and advisors, but students will not be admitted without an Advisor.
2. An earned bachelor's degree (for MS or PhD program),
3. An earned master's degree or its equivalent (for PhD program),
4. An upper division undergraduate GPA of 3.2 or the equivalent (for MS of PhD program),
5. A graduate GPA of 3.2 of the equivalent (for PhD program),
6. Three appropriate letters of recommendation (for MS or PhD program), including a favorable recommendation from the master's program advisor (for the PhD program),
7. Availability of space, resources, and appropriate faculty expertise (for MS or PhD program),
8. Score of 1200 or more for the combined Verbal and Quantitative portions of the GRE (for MS or PhD program),
9. If English is not the native language, a score of 550 or more (213 for computer-based) on the TOEFL (for MS or PhD program). If the earned bachelor's or master's degree is from an English-speaking institution, the TOEFL is not required. Exceptions to some of these admission requirements can be considered if the prospective Graduate Advisor submits a petition to the Graduate Programs Committee. International students admitted with a verbal GRE score of less than 320 and/or TOEFL score of less than 550 are required to participate in the Graduate School's Scholarly Writing Program.
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