In addition to meeting the general requirements for admission to graduate study at UCI, specified by UCI Graduate Division, all students must present the following for review by an Admission Committee composed of East Asian Studies faculty members:
Unofficial transcripts from all post-secondary institutions attended
Three letters of recommendation
Personal history statement and statement of purpose
TOEFL or IELTS scores (if applicable)
Writing sample
Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores (from within the last 5 years)
Upload unofficial transcripts from every institution attended since high school to your online application. If the transcript is not in English, an official English version from the University must also be submitted. If you are admitted to the program, you will then be required to provide an official transcript in a sealed envelope from every post-secondary institution attended from which you earned a degree.

Required scores: minimum score of 80 on TOEFL iBT and minimum score of 550 for the paper-based test.
An overall minimum score of 7, with a score of no less than 6 on any individual module, is required for admission consideration.
Have a minimum cumulative undergraduate GPA of 3.0