Admission to Graduate Studies

Effective 02/26/04

• Admission to any graduate degree program at Park University is officially granted by the Graduate School in accordance with the standards established by the Graduate Faculty through the Graduate Academic Council, the Graduate Dean, and the Provost. Each academic program may recommend to the Graduate Council standards higher than the minimum standards established by the Graduate School, but no applicant who fails to meet the minimum standards may be admitted for Graduate Studies at Park University. Any exception to this policy must be approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies and such exception will be made only under rare circumstances on the basis of clear evidence that the applicant is capable of successfully completing the program.
• Each applicant must hold a bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited United States institution of higher learning or four years of full-time college work from an accredited foreign institution.
• The minimum undergraduate grade point average required for admission is 2.75 on a 4.00 scale; or a 3.00 on the last 60 undergraduate hours. Individual programs may require appropriate entrance test scores such as the GRE or GMAT. Although entrance test scores by themselves do not constitute the sole or final criterion for granting or denying admission to any student, each program that uses them will consider them, in combination with other criteria, as an essential part of the requirements for granting full admission.
• Applicants who hold a master’s degree are not required to submit scores on GMAT or GRE.
• Admission may be withdrawn if it was granted on the basis of substantially incorrect information or on the omission of relevant facts, which if known at the time of the admission would have resulted in denial. In order to complete the application process, applicants must submit to the Graduate School the following documents unless otherwise indicated by policy.
  • An application for graduate admission
  • An application fee
  • An official transcript of the bachelor’s degree directly sent to the Graduate School by the issuing institution
  • An official record of the score on the aptitude portions of the GRE or GMAT, whichever is appropriate, sent directly to the Graduate School by the testing agency
  • Applicants who are seeking a certificate program or non-degree status are not required to submit GRE or GMAT test scores. However, when they intend to apply these courses to a degree program, they must submit a new application and submit the required test scores if applicable.
  • Students may be admitted to a program on a provisional basis and their admission status will be classified as “provisional.” The status of “provisional” will be removed when applicants submit their test scores or other required documents permitting them to continue in the program beyond 12 graduate hours applicable to the degree.
  • International students who apply to Park University must submit the following documentation in addition to what is required of domestic students:
    • Official transcripts, translated in English
    • Proof of financial support
    • A TOEFL score of 550 for those whose primary language is not English
    • Proof of medical insurance
  • No more than nine hours of the required credits toward a degree program may be transferred from another academic institution to a student’s Master’s degree program at Park University. Transfer is granted only after an evaluation of the appropriateness of the courses by the Program Director. Other conditions that must be met for credits to be considered for transfer are:
    • Transfer course content must be appropriate to the program
    • The transfer credit must be earned at a regionally accredited institution of higher education or its equivalent if the institution is a foreign university or college
    • The student must have earned a grade of B or better in the course
    • The credits must not have been used for a previous degree
    • Graduate credit cannot be more than seven years old at the time of graduation for a master’s program or 10 years old at the time of graduation from a doctoral program
    • The credits earned must be clearly at the graduate level
    • Transfer credit must be requested prior to the time of admission unless otherwise approved by the Program Director. These admission policies will be reviewed as needed to assure that admission criteria are consistent with the program needs and that valid measures are utilized.

Contact for Interpretation: Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies

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