Application Instructions
and Requirements
Admission
State law requires all state-assisted universities to charge nonresident fees to Ohio male students who have not registered with the Selective Service. If you were born after December 31, 1959, have not reached the age of 27 years, and have not registered with the Selective Service, you may do so at any United States Post Office.
Students must be officially accepted for admission to the School of Graduate Studies before they may register for graduate credit. Admission to the School of Graduate Studies does not necessarily indicate candidacy for an advanced degree. Such candidacy is subject to specific requirements, as defined by the individual program.
This application form should be filled out carefully and completely. Please type or print your information. Show "N/A" (not applicable) when appropriate. If the application form is submitted with essential information that is missing or illegible, it will be returned to you to be corrected, which will delay processing. This form, when completed, must be signed and dated. All documents received by the university in connection with applications for admission become the property of Wright State University. Under no circumstances will they be returned to the applicant or forwarded to any agency or other college or university.
Former Students
Students formerly admitted to the School of Graduate Studies but not completing a course
in the past four quarters, or those who have received the degree for which they were originally admitted, must submit a new application form.
Transient Status
If you have been admitted to a degree program in another regionally accredited graduate school, are currently in good standing in that program, and intend to return, you may apply
for transient status. Transient status is granted for one quarter only but may be renewed. In addition to an application, students seeking this status must submit a completed transient form.
Transcripts
One (1) official transcript sent from each institution attended (except Wright State University) is required. If courses from
one university/college appear on another university's/college's transcript, you are still required to submit an official transcript from
the college where you originally completed
the course work. Nondegree students need
to submit only the official transcript that
reflects the award of a baccalaureate,
master's, or doctorate degree.
Application Fee
A nonrefundable $25 fee is required of all degree and certification candidates. This is
a one-time fee; it is not required of anyone previously admitted to a Wright State graduate program. There is a $10 application fee for nondegree study. Students who change status from nondegree to degree need only pay an additional $15 application fee.
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International Students
In addition to the application form, all international students must submit a certified copy of all university/college records in English, accompanied by official transcripts in the
native language; financial statement form; official bank statement; a statement outlining degree objectives; and an official score from
the Test of English as a Foreign Language
(for students from countries where English
is not the native language).
Graduate Assistantships
Assistantships are awarded through individual departments and certain administrative offices. Assistantship responsibilities require a specified amount of time for assisting either in instruction or in research. Requests for information regard-ing assistantships should be directed to the chair of the department involved. Assistantship applications are available from the department chair's office, and all assistantship documents are to be returned to that office.
Particular Application
Requirements of Degree Programs
Accountancy:
three personal references and Graduate Management Admission Test.
Anatomy, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biological Sciences, Microbiology and Immunology, and Physiology and Biophysics
: statement of preferred option or concentration of study, professional goals, purpose of graduate study, and specialty interest, plus three letters of recommendation.
Applied Behavioral
Science: three letters of recommendation and an essay outlining professional goals and academic interests.
Biomedical
Sciences (Ph.D.): single-page essay describing reasons for interest in biomedical sciences and career goals, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination.
Chemistry:
statement of educational and professional goals and two letters of recommendation.
College of
Education and Human Services: (1). Attach to your application a statement of your educational and professional goals.
Classroom Teacher Education programs do not require letters of recommendation. Human Services programs require letters of recommendation
on separate forms from the individuals they list as references. These forms can be obtained from the School of Graduate Studies or
the College of Education and Human Services, or downloaded from the School of Graduate Studies Web site at
www.wright.edu/sogs/gradapp/forms/lor.pdf.
(2). The GRE or MAT is required for all programs except: Graduate Level Classroom Teacher Preparation Program (Adolescenct
Young Adult, Multi-Age, and Middle Childhood.) These programs require passing the Praxis II Specialty Area Exam. If your undergraduate
cumulative GPA for all undergraduate courses you may have taken is at least a 3.0, you do not have to take the GRE or MAT. The
Educational Specialist degree program requires the GRE or MAT
(no exceptions.) Human Services programs do not require the GRE or MAT if your cumulative GPA for all undergraduate work is at least a 3.3.
(3). In addition to this application, the Classroom Teacher program requires that a separate application be completed and returned to them.
The application and instructions can be obtained from
http://www.ed.wright.edu/ss.
(4). In addition to meeting at least the minimum admission requirements, students applying to Human Services programs will be
granted admission only after having been successfully interviewed by human services program faculty and having provided a satisfactory
writing sample at the time of the interview. Students applying for Licensure should review the insert.
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Computer
Engineering: statement of educational and professional goals and Graduate Record Examination.
Computer
Science: statement of educational and professional goals and Graduate Record Examination.
Computer
Science and Engineering Ph.D.: statement of educational and professional goals and Graduate Record Examination.
Educational
Specialist (post-master's): statement of educational and professional
goals, three letters of recommendation, faculty interview, and Graduate Record Examination
or Miller Analogies Test.
Engineering
Ph.D.: statement of educational and professional goals and Graduate Record Examination.
English:
Undergraduate major in English
or at least 20 quarter hours in upper-level under-graduate courses in English, with acceptable GPA, and a paper, using secondary sources, written on a topic in English or a related field (five pages minimum; also, this may be a paper previously handed in for an undergraduate class). Students re-applying for the graduate program in English do not need to submit the paper, since evidence of the writing skill is already on file in the department.
Geological
Sciences: statement of educational and professional goals and three letters of recommendation.
History:
statement of goals to be sought in the program and three letters of recommendation.
Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology:
three letters of recommendation, an essay outlining professional goals and academic interests, and Graduate Record Examination.
Humanities:
statement of background and goal for program of study (approximately 250 words).
M.B.A.:
three personal references and Graduate Management Admission Test.
GMAT can be waived if you have a graduate or professional degree.
M.P.H.:
Transcripts + GRE. GRE can be waived if you have a graduate or professional
degree.
Music:
baccalaureate degree
in music.
Nursing:
Essay clarifying career goals
(250 words or less) and copy of current Ohio
RN licensure. Graduate Management
Admission Test for MS/MBA applicants.
Pharmacology and Toxicology:
statement of professional goals and purpose of graduate study, three letters of recommendation, and Graduate Record Examination.
Public Administration:
400 word essay (outlining personal and academic goals, professional objectives, preparation for
graduate study, and relationships of goals and objectives to the program) and three letters
of recommendation. (Applicants must also schedule a faculty interview by contacting
the department.)
Social and Applied Economics:
Graduate Record Examination.
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