Admission to the Doctoral Program is highly selective. Ph.D. applicants are normally expected to have a graduate level GPA of 3.5, verbal and quantitative scores of 308 or better (1200 on the old GRE scoring system), and an analytical score of 5.0. Ph.D. applicants must also provide a 15-page writing sample. Applicants must either have a master's degree by the time they begin their doctoral studies or they must have earned at least 24 credits as students in the department's M. A. program. Doctoral students must also have a particular interest in environmental politics and policy. Students may be required to make up deficiencies in their backgrounds as part of their admission to the Doctoral Program.
A minimum TOEFL score of 600 (or 250 on the computerized test) is required.