Admission Requirements

1. A Bachelor degree from a regionally accredited educational institution.
2. A score of at least 400 on the Verbal and 400 on the Quantitative sections of the GRE and a combined total of 1,000 plus a GPA of 3.0 would allow you to be admitted unconditionally. The GMAT and the LSAT might be accepted in lieu of the GRE on a case by cast basis.
3. Students with scores below those stated in #2 (above) can be admitted on probationary status based on three strong letters of recommendation and the quality of the student's 250-word personal statement.
4. Students can be admitted provisionally without GRE scores based on a GPA of 3.0 and three strong letters of recommendation.
5. Regardless of GRE and GPA scores, students need to submit three letters of recommendation and the personal statement.
6. International students must also meet TOEFL minimum scores.

GRE Waiver:

1. Applies to UTA Graduates who have completed their undergraduate degrees within the past 3 years (as measured from the start of the semester in which admission is desired).
2. The student's UTA GPA must equal or exceed 3.0 in each of two calculations:
   (1) in the last 60 hours of study as calculated for admission by the Graduate School
   (2) in all undergraduate coursework completed at UTA
3. Meeting the minimum GPA requirement shall not be sole determinate of whether a waiver is granted. Other performance on criteria normally used in admission decisions should be considered. These criteria may include letters of reference from UTA faculty, achievement in specific courses, independent studies, research, and other activities that speak to and applicant's potential for success. Strengths justifying a waiver must be noted on the admission worksheet.

Transfer Credit Applied to Master's Degrees

Equivalent coursework completed at other institutions of recognized standing may be transferred to a master's degree program after evaluation and approval of the appropriate Committee on Graduate Studies and the Dean of Graduate Studies. No more than nine hours of transfer credit will be granted except in the professional master's programs that require more than 36 hours of coursework. In such programs, the number of transfer hours is limited to 25 percent of the total program hours. This rule does not invalidate written agreements between graduate programs and the Graduate School or agreements that are stated elsewhere in this catalog. Transfer credit will be accepted only for organized courses in which the student received a letter grade of B or higher and an official transcript showing the course(s) and grade(s) is required.

All work submitted for transfer credit must have been completed no more than six years before completion of a graduate program at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Transfer courses do not appear on a student's U.T. Arlington transcript and transfer course grades are not included in calculating a student's U.T. Arlington graduate grade-point average.

Course Credit Applied to More Than One Degree

No course that has been applied to any one degree, at any graduate or undergraduate institution, may be applied to any other degree, either directly or by substitution except in approved dual degree or approved fast track programs.