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Graduate Program

Admissions

Application deadline: January 16, 2009

To be considered for admission to the graduate program in history, you must provide the department with the following materials:

  1. Completed application form (from The Graduate School).
    (If you have previously enrolled here, you must fill out the “Request to Re-enroll” form.)
  2. Official transcripts of your record at all colleges and universities previously attended.
  3. Official GRE scores (the history subject exam is not required).
  4. Three letters of recommendation from faculty familiar with your work.
  5. A short essay explaining your goals and expectations in graduate study, including the fields in which you plan to specialize.
  6. A substantial paper from a course.

To be considered for admission to the master's program, you must have

  1. A BA or BS degree.
  2. GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale) over the last 60 hours of undergraduate work.
  3. GPA of 3.3 in undergraduate history courses, and at least 18 hours in history.

To be considered for admission to the doctoral program you must have

  1. The MA degree.
  2. A completed masters thesis; or, if the work is in progress, a representative chapter, a detailed outline, a schedule for completion, and a letter from your director attesting that the thesis will be completed before you matriculate here.
  3. If your masters program does not require a thesis, the committee on graduate admissions may accept a research seminar paper in lieu of one, or require you to write a masters thesis here.

N.B. Students who do not meet one or more of these criteria may enroll as non-degree graduate students. Contact the Director of Graduate Studies for further details.

All admissions of doctoral candidates who did not receive the MA degree from the department are provisional. These students must pass a qualifying examination no later than the beginning of their third semester of residence at MU. The exam will focus on a research paper the student wrote at MU.

The examining committee will be composed of her/his adviser and at least two other history faculty. During the consideration of prospective students, the committee on graduate admissions will consult closely with faculty best suited to advise them.

The committee reserves the right to reject otherwise qualified students if

  1. this department cannot provide the applicant with an adequate program in his/her area of interest.
  2. no faculty member is willing to supervise his/her work.

All documents and questions concerning your application should be sent to

Director of Graduate Studies
Department of History
101 Read Hall
University of Missouri-Columbia
Columbia, Missouri 65211-7500
phone: 573-882-9461
email: tauben@missouri.edu

Contacts

Professor John Bullion
Interim Director of Graduate Studies
office: 115 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-9461
email: bullionj@missouri.edu

Nancy Taube
Graduate Studies Administrator
office: 101 Read Hall
phone: 573-882-9461
email: tauben@missouri.edu

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