Admission to the Master's Degree Program
Applicants for admission to any of the four options of the master's degree program should have an undergraduate major related to art, art education, arts administration, or thirty (30) hours in art and/or art education coursework. Deficiencies may be made up after acceptance into the program.
Additional admission requirements include: the completion of a questionnaire, official transcripts from all previous course work, results from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), three letters of recommendation, a slide portfolio of the candidate's studio work (and the candidate's students work if applicable) in a clear plastic sheet, and a 1,000-word handwritten biography which should include career goals and why the applicant is applying to this program.
Candidates must achieve either 1000 on the combined verbal/quantitative portions of the GRE or a 3.0 point average on a 4.0 scale during the last sixty (60) hours of undergraduate education for admission to the program. In addition, two years of teaching experience is desired of applicants for Art Education Option I.