The doctoral committee then selects from this pool of admissible applicants, a subset that is balanced among areas and focus. Decisions pertaining to financial aid are also made at this time. Either GMATs or GREs are required for admission. In our admissions process, we consider student research interests, experience and match with available faculty as well as past academic performance. An application can be downloaded from the Graduate Services website .
Aid is extremely competitive.
Normally we admit students without aid and if they demonstrate high motivation and capability during the first year we try to provide aid for completion of the program. We feel a strength of our program is designing interdisciplinary programs to fit particular interests or research problems. Our student body comprises a wide variety of academic background and experience. This means that faculty take an active role in shaping the student s program and monitoring process. The side benefit of these activities is that the field faculty advisor becomes more of a mentor and developer of the student, and is actively involved in the student s progress and development.