Fulfillment of all general requirements for admission to the Graduate School
Completion of four (4) upper-division undergraduate survey courses in Spanish and Spanish American literature with a grade of B or better (SPAN 3301, SPAN 3302, SPAN 3303, SPAN 3304 at UTEP, or their equivalent at other institutions).
Applicants who have not taken all such courses or who have not completed one or more of them with a grade of B or better can be granted conditional admission, and will be required to make up any deficiency by enrolling in the appropriate course(s) during their first semester. Such courses will not count toward the degree.

For graduates of institutions outside the United States where English is not the first language, the Graduate School requires a minimum score of 550 on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) (or a 79 on the TOEFL ibT) or a minimum score of 6.5 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS).