Admission to the Graduate Program

Admission to the Program

A committee of faculty from across the university reviews and makes recommendations to the MA program director on admission. The director of the DH MA program has sole and ultimate authority to make offers of admission to the program.

Admitted students will, typically, receive notification within a month of the closing deadline for applications. Beginning in 2018-2019, the program will accept both Fall and Spring applications for students wishing to start either in the Fall of each year or in the Spring.

GPA and standardized test scores are taken into account as part of a whole assessment and dossier; they are not taken individually either as disqualification or as guarantee for admission.The program has no hard minimums for GRE scores or GPA for application to the program. However, successful applicants typically have GRE scores in the top third on the verbal section and in the top half on the quantitative section. GPA scores should be 3.0 or significantly higher.