A four-year undergraduate degree from an accredited college or university. Minimum TOEFL score for admission without condition is 550 (paper based), or 80 (internet based).
Required information will include:

Statement of Purpose
Upload a document with your answers to these questions (suggested maximum length is 5 pages single-spaced with 1-inch margins and a 12 point font):
Tell us about yourself. What about your background and life experiences brought you to choose social work as a career? Please also answer: How will an advanced generalist program, in contrast to a program with specialized tracks or focus areas, help prepare you to achieve your goals as a social worker?
Select one of the 12 Social Work Grand Challenges found here and 1) describe an issue related to the Grand Challenge you selected that is of concern to you, 2) describe what the social work perspective on this issue would be (in terms of values, principles, and/or ethics of the profession), and 3) discuss how social workers can respond to this issue from micro to macro levels of either practice, policy, or research.
Summary of Experience
Upload a detailed resume-style document describing the types of experiences you have had that relate to your goal of professional social work practice. The Admissions Committee is looking for detail, not brevity.
List all experiences chronologically (starting with the most recent and working backward).
List your supervised experience in human service. There is a strict requirement for a minimum of 400 direct human service hours completed by the date of submission. This is defined as direct service work with vulnerable &/or disadvantaged populations. To qualify toward the human service work requirement the hours must be post-high school graduation.
Include the following information for each relevant entry:
Name of agency or organization
Type of agency (social work, human service, i.e., nursing, teaching, psychiatric, etc., public or private industry in human resource area, i.e., training, personnel, community work, board or committee, etc.)
Position held
Paid or volunteer
Length of time in positions and average amount of time worked each week, computed in hours. Please be very specific about the total hours spent on each position. Compute your total direct human service hours for each position, and include them in each position's listing.
Nature of activities performed (direct service delivery, i.e., counseling, tutoring, indirect service, i.e., supervising, administrative, lobbying, board membership)
Population groups served (children, seniors, adolescents, ethnic minorities, women, men)
Frequency of supervisory contact and supervisor's qualifications
This document must include a computation of hours worked in each social service setting totaled for each relevant position.
Three references
One reference must be a person who has most recently supervised the applicant in a human service delivery experience (paid, volunteer, or educational).
Appropriate sources for references include employers, field instructors, supervisors, and university faculty.
You will enter the references' contact information into the application form and the Graduate School will contact the references directly with instructions.
Official transcripts
You must arrange for an official transcript from each institution you attended after high school to be sent directly to CSU.
Transcripts must be sent directly from those institutions to CSU to be official. If they are received from you they are not official and will not be accepted.
Minimum IELTS score for admission without condition is 6.5.
3.0 GPA (4.0 scale).