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Admissions Requirements

Transcripts

Standardized Test Scores

Statement of Purpose

Letters of Recommendation

Evidence of Language Proficiency

Transfer of Credits from Other Institutions



Transcripts
All applicants are required to submit one official copy of transcripts from each post-secondary institution attended, present school included. If you are currently enrolled and your degree is not yet conferred, you must submit an additional, final transcript following graduation before you will be permitted to enroll. International transcripts must be translated and notarized.

Standardized Test Scores
The Educational Testing Service (ETS) sends the graduate school official Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores of all applicants who request that Emory (institution code 5187) receive test results. The following three scores are reported:

  1. verbal score reported on a 200-800 score scale,
  2. quantitative score reported on 200-800 score scale,
  3. analytical writing score reported on a 0-6 scale with half point increments.
The graduate school will not accept scores more than five years old.

In exceptional circumstances a student with an advanced degree may have the GRE requirement waived if the department to which the student is applying so recommends, and the dean of the graduate school approves the department's recommendation. To request a waiver, contact your department of interest.

Only applicants to the PhD program in Business have the option of submitting Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) in lieu of the GRE.

Statement of Purpose
Applicants are required to provide a statement of purpose to be considered for admission to the graduate school.

The statement of purpose should incorporate the following:
  1. Brief intellectual autobiography describing the formation of your academic interests and present concerns.
  2. The special area of interest or particular problems, theories, movements, periods, etc., upon which your study would focus.
  3. A description of tentative plans for research, either specific problems or general areas in which you hope to work.
  4. If appropriate, include in your statement of purpose any ways in which you as a student at Emory would contribute to the diversity of the program to which you are applying.

Letters of Recommendation
All applicants must submit three letters of recommendation from faculty members most familiar with their academic performance. Teachers applying to the Division of Educational Studies may be recommended by a school principal. Make sure recommenders are able to meet the application deadline.

Federal legislation provides applicants with a right of access to recommendations, which may be waived. No school or person can require the applicant to waive this right.

If you waive your right of access, the letters of recommendation, except as used by Emory University, will be held in confidence from you and all other parties. If you do not waive your right and you matriculate, or if you do not sign the waiver statement at all and you matriculate, you will be permitted to see the recommendations on request.

Evidence of Language Proficiency
All international applicants whose native language is other than English must show evidence of command of the English language as specified by the particular department, generally by means of satisfactory scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or evaluation of a writing sample. Consult the director of graduate studies in the department of your interest regarding program specific requirements.

Transfer of Credits from Other Institutions
Up to 12 semester hours of course work completed at another graduate institution may be transferred to the degree at Emory. Any amount over 12 hours must be approved by the dean of the graduate school with strong support from the department. In no case will more than 24 total hours be transferred. Additionally, no course work accepted for transfer credit can have been applied toward another conferred degree. Students admitted to full standing with general or specific deficiencies, or whose prior degrees were conferred eight or more years before admission may be expected to complete additional requirements. Consult the director of graduate studies in the department of your interest regarding program specific requirements.