Requirements for Admission

Applicants should have (or anticipate completing by the following spring) an undergraduate degree in philosophy.

An applicant who does not have an undergraduate major in philosophy or the equivalent may be admitted with deficiencies in the major. Admission with deficiencies requires a student to have had at least 12 semester credits in philosophy courses.

The Department may recommend in exceptional cases that a student whose grade point average is below 3.0 be admitted to Graduate School on probation. However, a student who meets neither the course requirement nor the grade point requirement cannot be admitted to Graduate School. Such students may consult the Chairperson or Assistant to the Chairperson regarding ways to remove such deficiencies.