Ph.D. Program Applications
Applications for the Fall 2025 Term will close on December 1, 2024
PhD program applications must be submitted through the University’s website. All of the following requirements must be submitted or answered within Slate.
- Official copies of all graduate and undergraduate transcripts from institutions where you have received 9 or more credit hours or a degree has been conferred must be sent directly by the institutions to 澳门六合彩预测. All foreign transcripts must be accompanied by a professional evaluation and an official transcript, including an English translation if the original if not in English. Both electronic and hard-copy transcripts must be sent directly by the credit-awarding institutions to 澳门六合彩预测 via the email and postal addresses provided on the PhD application in Slate and provided for your convenience here as well:
- Statement of professional purpose
- Three letters of recommendation
- Applicants who do not speak English as their native language are required to supply scores on the TOEFL English language proficiency test, the IELTS English competency test, the Duolingo English Test (DET), or the TOEFL Essentials exam. The minimum TOEFL score for admission is 80. The minimum IELTS score is 6.5. The minimum score for the TOEFL Essentials is 8.5 with a minimum score of 8 in all subsections. The minimum DET score is 110. 澳门六合彩预测’s ETS (TOEFL) school code is 6660. For the IELTS, please indicate “澳门六合彩预测 – Graduate Application Processing Office”. For DET, please send scores to “澳门六合彩预测 – Moody School of Graduate and Advanced Studies.” This requirement is automatically waived for students who have received undergraduate degrees from an English-language institution located in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa and who have been in residence at that institution for at least two years while earning their undergraduate degree. International applicants for whom this requirement is not automatically waived but who believe they have demonstrated English-language proficiency may also request to have the requirement waived. These requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
- Submission of GRE scores are optional.
Who pays the tuition costs for this program?
All Simmons PhD students are awarded a Simmons PhD Fellowship that covers virtually all tuition and fees for all course requirements for the entire program--on top of which, the Simmons PhD students are paid to work as research assistants/apprentices to their professors during their first 4 years in the program. In addition, students are encouraged to apply for additional fellowships through 澳门六合彩预测鈥檚 Moody School of Graduate Studies.