3 Letters of Recommendation
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.
GRE and/or GMAT test scores. S and T's GRE Test Center Code is 6876 / GMAT test code is RWQ-TL-8
A statement of purpose
A resume or curriculum vitae
Applicants who have received a degree from a United States university will also be exempt from providing English test scores. Students applying for a graduate degree program at S&T must meet one of the minimum scores:
TOEFL: 80, IELTS: 6.5
Students are admitted competitively to the Ph.D. program based on GPA, standard scores, references, research experience, and match to departmental needs. Students admitted to the program are required to take qualifying exams, which assess academic deficiencies. A plan of study is then designed to meet these deficiencies as well as the degree requirements. Students meet the faculty and mutually select available research projects and an advisory committee. After completing coursework, at the end of the second year, comprehensive exams are administered. Following conclusion of research, a dissertation is written and the oral defense is scheduled. Upon successful completion of the coursework, comprehensive, research dissertation and defense, the student is awarded the Ph.D. degree.
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.