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Admission Requirements

All applicants for graduate admission must submit official transcripts of all academic work. For admission to the university, student must have obtained the equivalent of a baccalaureate or higher degree, prior to start of therm for which the student is admitted, from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or from a recognized foreign institution. Students without the equivalent of a baccalaureate or higher degree from an accredited institution (or equivalent) are not admitted to graduate degree program, graduate certificate programs, or graduate nondegree status. The College of Business requires that all degrees must have been earned from regionally accredited institutions. All students who wish to be admitted in regular degree-seeking status to a doctoral program or wish to be considered ro univesity-wide fellowships must also submit an official Graduate Record Examination Test (GRE) score or an official General Management Admission Test (GMAT) score (as required).

Minimum UCF Admission Requirements

• A bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or its equivalent from a foreign instituion and a GPA of 3.0 or more (on a 4.0 maximum) in all work attempted while registered as an undergraduate student OR while registered as an upper-division undergraduate student (normally based on the last sixty attempted semester hours); OR, a graduate degree or professional degree or equivalent from a regionally accredited U.S. institution or its equivalent from a foreign institution in a field related to the discipline of the program to which the student is applying.
• Students applying to doctoral program must submit an official competitive score on the Graduate Record Examination Test or an official competitive score on the General Management Admission Test (as required) or an equivalent score on an equivalent measure approved by the graduate program and the university.
• Students applying to doctoral programs must also submit three letters of recommendation, a resume or curriculum vita, and a written essay.


• International students must demonstrate their proficiency in the English language. International students, except those who are from countries where English is the only official language, those who have earned a degree from a regionally accredited U.S. college or university, or those who have earned a degree from a country where English is the only official language or a university at which English is the only official language of instruction, are required to submit a score on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or International English Language Testing System(IELTS) before they can be admitted to the university. A computer-based TOEFL score of 220 or 80 on the internet-based TOEFL (or equivalent score on the paper-based test) or 6.5 on the IELTS is required unless otherwise specified by the program.


• International students applying to master’s programs that do not require a GRE or GMAT, must submit a course-by-course evaluation of their official transcripts from a credential evaluation service recommended by UCF. This course-by-course evaluation must show a GPA that is equivalent to a 3.0 from an earned degree that is equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree.

Individual programs may have more restrictive admission requirements, as listed in the Graduate Programs section of this website. Program requirements may be based on other factors such as work experience, research interests of the prospective student, evidence of extracurricular or community work, personal interviews, or other factors specified by the program.