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Admission Criteria
What
are USF's Criteria and Policies?
Statement of Principles
In graduate admission decisions, multiple sources of information should be used
to ensure fairness, promote diversity and balance the limitations of any single
measure of knowledge, skills, or abilities. The sources may include:
undergraduate grade point average, letters of recommendation, personal
statements, samples of academic work, portfolios, auditions, professional
experience related to proposed graduate study, as well as nationally known,
standardized test scores. It is the responsibility of each graduate program to
select admissions criteria that best predict success in their specific field and
to determine the weight given to each measure.
None of the sources of information, particularly standardized test scores,
should be used in isolation nor should such scores be used in combination or
separately to establish minimum or “cut off” scores. Program specific guidelines
for the use of standardized test scores should be developed based on the
experience of a given department with its pool of applicants.
Admission Requirements
Each applicant to a graduate program at the University of South Florida is
required to meet the following minimum requirements:
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An applicant must have one of the following:
a. A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution and satisfying
at least one of the following criteria:
i. “B” average or better in all work attempted while registered as an
undergraduate student working for a degree, or
ii. “B” or better average in all work attempted while registered as an upper
division undergraduate student working for a baccalaureate degree.
b. A bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution and a previous
graduate degree from a regionally accredited institution.
c. The equivalent bachelors and/or graduate degrees from a foreign institution.
- Submission of a GRE/GMAT score is required unless specifically waived by the
University.
- All specific and additional requirements of the graduate program to which
admission is sought (including requirements to submit standardized test scores)
consistent with the above Statement of Principles.
The Program Chair and College Dean must approve any exceptions to these
requirements with information copies to the Graduate School.
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