Ph.D. Program

Admission |Purpose & Philosophy |Requirements

Admission

Applications for admission are reviewed twice each year, in mid-January for applicants seeking financial support and again in mid-June. Applicants should have at least two years of experience teaching foreign language or ESL and should hold a master's degree or have completed a significant amount of graduate course work in a foreign language or foreign language education.

Application materials should include a statement of purpose explaining the applicant's professional goals, transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work, Graduate Record Exam scores, a sample of academic writing, and three letters of recommendation. Applicants must have a grad-point average of at least 3.00 in graduate course work. International applicants must score at least 250 on the computer-based TOEFL (or 600 on the paper-based TOEFL).

Please direct questions and concerns about the Ph.D program to Dr. Michael Everson.