Admissions Process
The Graduate School provides opportunities to pursue advanced study in more than
40 master's programs, 1 educational specialist program, and 12 doctoral programs –
three of which are professional practice degrees. Additional professional and academic
opportunities exist to pursue graduate certificates and graduate badges. Two admission
statuses, degree and nondegree, are available to accommodate qualified students desiring
to pursue graduate degrees as well as those simply desiring to earn graduate credit
for personal and professional reasons. Students must be admitted to the Graduate School
in order to receive graduate credit.
Application for graduate study is made through the Graduate School regardless of
the program area desired. All applicants must submit the required Graduate School
materials before the Graduate School will process the application. Program areas may
also require an additional program application and additional, program-specific supporting
materials. It is the applicant’s responsibility to determine what additional items
may be required and submit those by the published deadlines. You can find specific
program level requirements online by following the link below, and all links embedded
in the step-by-step instructions.
Upon receipt of required application materials, your file will be reviewed to determine
if you will be offered admission. Recommendations of admissibility are made at the
program level - for this reason, the faculty member who serves as the graduate coordinator
is often the best contact for a student who is considering graduate study. WSU's Graduate Coordinators are members of Wichita State University's Graduate Faculty and function as the liaison
between the Graduate School and individual programs. When the program area has made
a decision, they forward a recommendation to the Graduate School for final approval.
Regardless of admission or denial, formal notification of the decision will come from
the Graduate School office. The review of application materials may require several
days or several weeks and sometimes longer, depending upon the review cycle of the
program area and the completeness of the application materials and the number of applications
received.
Because of possible limitationsin the number of faculty and available facilities,
there are restrictions on the number of students admitted to some graduate programs.
These limits may prevent some qualified students from being admitted.