Applicants should have a strong background in astronomy, astrophysics, electrical engineering, engineering physics, mathematics, or physics.
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Not required/accepted: GRE general or subject tests
Required Academic Statement of Purpose
Please use the Academic Statement of Purpose to describe (within 1000 words) the substantive research questions you are interested in pursuing during your graduate studies, and explain how our program would help you achieve your intellectual goals. Additionally, detail your academic background, intellectual interests, and any training or research experience you have received that you believe has prepared you for our program. Within your statement, please also identify specific faculty members whose research interests align with your own interests.

Required Personal Statement

Please describe how your personal background and experiences influenced your decision to pursue a graduate degree. Additionally, provide insight on your potential to contribute to a community of inclusion, belonging, and respect where scholars representing diverse backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, and experiences can learn and innovate productively and positively together.

Optional Personal Statement Addendum

Please use the Optional Personal Statement Addendum to submit (within 250-500 words) any personal information you would like to have considered as part of the Diversity Fellowship nomination and selection process, but NOT as part of the admissions process. Only the Director of Graduate Studies and the Graduate School Office of Inclusion & Student Engagement will have access to any information submitted through this addendum, which is completely optional.

Please describe how your personal background and experiences influenced your decision to pursue a graduate degree. Additionally, provide insight on your potential to contribute to a community of inclusion, belonging, and respect where scholars representing diverse backgrounds, perspectives, abilities, and experiences can learn and innovate productively and positively together.

Transcripts
Please scan and upload one PDF file, including all of your transcripts, into the online application. Your transcript(s) should be the official one issued to you by your university and then scanned to make a PDF. It must be legible and provide a course title eg ''Phys 4310 Advanced Mechanics''. Please do not send screen shots from an online database. If you accept an offer of admission, you will be required to submit an official paper transcript prior to matriculation.

GRE
Applicants should have a strong background in astronomy, astrophysics, electrical engineering, engineering physics, mathematics, or physics. The General and Physics GRE exams are not required for admission, nor will scores be accepted as part of the admissions process. Please do not submit any GRE scores for consideration.
IELTS - 7.0. TOEFL Ibt - 77 (Speaking: 22, Reading: 20, Listening: 15, Writing: 20. ) Our program requires a TOEFL minimum score of 600 paper-based or 250 computer-based.