The Graduate School sets the minimum admission requirements for all graduate students at the University of Arkansas, such as having a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education with a grade point average of 3.0 (on a scale of 4) or above in the last 60 hours of coursework.
Applicants whose native language is not English must present satisfactory scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL, our institution code is 6866) or International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The University defines a minimum satisfactory score on TOEFL as 79 on the IBT (Internet Based TOEFL), or 6.5 on the IELTS for admission and the test must have been taken within two years immediately preceding the requested semester of admission and be valid at the time of enrollment. No other measures of English proficiency are accepted by the University of Arkansas for the purpose of gaining admission.
Complete official transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work.
Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores on the Aptitude Test (verbal, quantitative, and analytical writing).
International students are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Lan­guage Testing System (IELTS) exams, meeting the minimum score required by the Graduate School.
Statement of purpose describing academic interests and profes­sional goals.
TOEFL (PBT) -550