Admission to a Ph.D. program with regular status may be granted by the Department, subject to the availability of resources and to the approval of the Dean, upon consideration of the likelihood that the applicant will be able to pursue a doctoral program successfully without taking collateral work that cannot be applied towards the program. Admission to the doctoral program without an M.S. degree, or the equivalent thereof, will require special consideration by the Department and the Dean.
Admission is contingent on acceptance by one of the proposed Ph.D. advisors.
The provisional status will be changed to regular status when subsequent evaluation justifies such a change, as determined by the Department and approved by the Dean. Admission for study not constituting part of a degree program may be granted by the Department, subject to approval of the Dean, to an applicant holding a M.S. degree. If this student is subsequently admitted to regular status, credit for courses taken in non-degree status may, in certain cases, be applied to a degree program upon recommendation by the student's major department and approval of the Dean.