2 Letters of Recommendation (thesis only)
Transcripts (in English) from all colleges and universities attended. All unofficial copies of transcripts and scores can be uploaded to your online application for S&T to review. Upon arrival on campus, you must request that an official copy of your transcript(s) to be sent to us directly from your previous university's registrar's office and all official scores reported directly from the respective testing agency. Once we receive the official documents, we will verify them. If there are any discrepancies between the unofficial documents you submitted, Missouri S&T will withdraw your admission and you will not be allowed to apply to S&T in the future.
A statement of purpose
A resume or curriculum vitae
Test Score(s):
GRE and/or GMAT test scores.S&T's GRE Test Center Code is 6876 / GMAT test code is RWQ-TL-82
TOEFL: 80, IELTS: 6.5,
A B.S. degree is essential for professional practice in geology or geophysics in industry. Due to the increasing complexity of jobs in the geosciences, the M.S. degree is recognized as the professional degree for geoscientists desiring employment in the Petroleum, Minerals, and many other industries. The Ph.D. degree is for those students that want to conduct original research with purpose of adding new knowledge in a specific area of the geosciences. Successful Ph.D. candidates find employment in academia or research centers in government agencies or corporate research labs.
Admission as a regular graduate student is normally limited to those who ranked in the upper third of their baccalaureate graduating class or who have done quality work at the graduate level. For this requirement, a cumulative B average (3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale), or a B average (3.0 GPA on a 4.0 scale) for the student's last sixty credit hours of undergraduate coursework is considered equivalent to an upper one-third standing.