Requirements are a masters degree an appropriate level of proficiency in English and another language or evidence of potential to achieve the minimum level of proficiency required by the program approval of the doctoral program coordinator in conjunction with the program faculty committee and three letters of recommendation by graduate instructors or others including employers who know about the candidates work ethic and potential International students may be required to complete an intensive English program andor academic writing program at the doctoral level

Approval by the admissions committee will be based on the following factors

GRE scores verbal and quantitative sections at least sufficiently high to merit admission to the College of Graduate Studies
an acceptable undergraduate and graduate GPA normally a 3.0 plus undergraduate total or upper division GPA and a 3.25 graduate GPA are expected

The admissions committee may require additional work by applicant prior to or concurrent with enrollment in the doctoral program if the committee establishes that a deficiency exists in the applicants background and training The program recommends predoctoral training in

linguistics
statistics and
heritage language writing skills for those who plan to develop curriculum materials in heritage language
Languages
Students may be asked to demonstrate appropriate levels of proficiency in understanding speaking reading and writing English and another language prior to either

admission to the doctoral program or
admission to candidacy

Test of English as a Foreign Language - A score of 79 internet-based or 550 paper-based is the university minimum requirement for all graduate students.
IELTS - The minimum score required is a 6.0 overall band score Texas AM University Kingsville only accepts scores submitted electronically by the IELTS test center.
DET - The university most competitive applicants have DET scores of at least 100.