Cleveland State University
Graduate Admissions
2121 Euclid Avenue
Parker Hannifin Hall, 2nd floor
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Campus Location
Parker Hannifin Hall, 2nd floor
2258 Euclid Avenue
Phone: 216.687.5599
Fax: 216.687.5400
Graduate Admissions Contact
Graduate Admissions Office
graduate.admissions @csuohio.edu
Phone: 216.687.5599
Web Content Contact
Charles Newton
grad@csuohio.edu
Degree Students
Admission Procedures for Graduate Degree Applicants
To
complete admission procedures, graduate degree applicants must submit
the
following:
1.
Application: A completed application
(paper or online application form),
must be
submitted not less than six weeks prior to
the term of desired entrance. Consult the admission requirements in
individual
program descriptions in this Catalog
for further information.
To facilitate the admission
process, it is strongly recommended that applicants
use the online
application system. An application form may be downloaded
from www.csuohio.edu/gradcollege. The processing time for
paper application forms is
longer than that for
online applications. For a listing of programs with
earlier
application deadlines.
2. Official Transcripts: At the time of
application, applicants should request that every college or university
previously attended send one official transcript to the Office of
Graduate
Admissions (the Graduate Admissions Office will obtain official
Cleveland State
University transcripts). For graduate applicants who earned their
undergraduate
degree from Cleveland State University, and those who received
undergraduate
transfer credit for work taken at another institution, the Graduate
Admissions
Office will secure the applicant's undergraduate transcripts from the
Cleveland
State University Registrar, if the transfer credit was awarded since
2002. The
Registrar cannot guarantee the availability of undergraduate transfer
credit
transcripts from prior to 2002. Graduate applicants who were granted
Cleveland
State University undergraduate transfer credit prior to 2002 need to
request
that all Colleges and Universities attended previously send official
transcripts to the Office of Graduate Admissions. For applicants who
have not
yet been awarded their baccalaureate (or higher) degree, a second
official
transcript with the degree posted also must be submitted to the
Graduate
Admissions Office before an admitted student will be permitted to
register for
classes. Transcripts must be received in the Graduate Admissions Office
directly from the originating institutions.
3. Letters
of Recommendation: Not
required by all programs. Applicants should consult
program descriptions. When required, provide recommendation
forms to individuals serving as
references. Usually, at least one of the recommendations should come
from a
college professor familiar with the applicant’s academic work.
Applicants
to the Doctor of Business Administration
(DBA) program and the Master of Social Work (MSW) program, and those
pursuing
initial licensure in Curriculum and Instruction—Urban Secondary
Teaching must
submit three letters of recommendation.
Most other
programs
require two letters of recommendation.
The
following
master’s degree programs do not require letters of recommendation:
•
Accountancy (MAcc)
• Business
Administration (MBA)
• Computer
and
Information Science (MCIS)
• Education
(MEd)
(except Counseling programs)
• Labor
Relations and
Human Resources (MLRHR)
•
Mathematics (MA and
MS)
•
Mechanical
Engineering (MS)
4. Official
Test Scores:
Submit results of the appropriate admission examination, as required by
the
College of Graduate Studies and/or the graduate degree program.
Examination
results over six years old at the time of application are not
considered valid
and will not be accepted. Only official test scores received directly
from the
testing service will be accepted.
5.
Applicants whose native language is other than English, who have
received their undergraduate degree from an
institution where English is not the language of instruction, are
required to
take a standard English language proficiency examination. Proficiency
examination options are detailed in this Catalog.
6.
Application Fee: Submit
payment for
the required, non-refundable $30 Graduate Application Fee. The Master
of
Occupational Therapy, Master of Physical Therapy and Nursing programs
have a
$55 application fee. Admission decisions will not be rendered until the
fee is
paid.