Applicants should follow carefully the instructions on the Graduate School's Application for Admission form. Note that three letters of recommendation, an official set of transcripts, and GRE scores are to be sent directly to the Department of Wildlife Ecology. Decisions as to who will be accepted are made about March 1, at which time those accepted and those who cannot be accepted are notified. Occasionally, under special circumstances, new graduate students are also accepted at various other times throughout the calendar year. Assistantship support is provided for 2 calendar years.
Further support is contingent upon satisfactory progress and availability of funds.
Students must have completed all requirements for an M.S. degree before admission to the Ph.D. program. Students without an M.S. degree will not be considered. No individual holding two degrees from the Department of Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will be accepted for a Ph.D. program in Wildlife Ecology. The Department recognizes that training international wildlife ecologists is crucially important to solving global conservation problems. Few ecologists exist in foreign countries where environmental problems are severe.