General Requirements for Admission

Candidates for admission should have a bachelor's or master's degree in one of the physical, biological, or earth sciences; in some cases a degree in mathematics or engineering science is accepted. A scholastic average of B or better in upper-division courses, or prior graduate study, is required. The student's preparation should include mathematics through differential and integral calculus; physics, one year with laboratory (the course should stress the fundamentals of mechanics, electricity, magnetism, optics, and thermodynamics, and should use calculus in its exposition); chemistry, one year with laboratory; an additional year of physics, chemistry, or mathematics.

All applicants are required to submit scores from the General Test of the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE) given by the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey. Marine Biology applicants must also submit scores of the GRE Biology (or Biochemistry, Cell and Molecular Biology) Subject Test. Official score reports must be sent to GRE Institution Code 4836, Department Code 0211 or 0508 or 0599.

For more detailed information go to Specific Additional Requirements for Admission to the Various Curricular Programs