Master's admissions criteria and guidelines

Admission requirements

Application for admission must be made directly to the Registrar's Office (Office of Graduate Admissions, Criser Hall, University of Florida ), not to the department. To qualify for admission to the Graduate School, the student must have maintained at least a 3.0 (B) average for the final two years of undergraduate study at an accredited college or university. In addition, the student must have received satisfactory scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).

The faculty of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering bases admission on a combination of factors, only one of which is the GRE score. In certain cases, students with outstanding prior academic performance may be admitted despite violating the department's GRE score guidelines; in other cases, students who meet these requirements may be denied admission based on deficiencies in other areas. The guidelines for GRE test scores required for admission to the Master's program are:

• Quantitative: at least 600
• Verbal: at least 400
• Analytical: at least 3.5

In addition, foreign students whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and achieve a score of at least 550 (paper), 213 (computer), or 80 (web). The Educational Testing Service (ETS) must send the GRE and TOEFL test results directly to the Registrar.

Students seeking admission to the Master of Engineering program must have a bachelor's degree from an ABET-accredited curriculum or have taken sufficient articulation course work to meet the minimum requirements specified by ABET. Admission to the Master of Science program is open to students with an undergraduate degree in engineering, mathematics, statistics, computer science, physics, quantitative management, or similar field.

Students that are admitted to the Master's degree program and who have indicated their desire to pursue the Engineering Management option will be asked in late May to confirm that they will indeed attend the University of Florida. Those confirming by July 1st are considered to be committed to the Engineering Management option, and will be pre-registered in the required business school courses. Those not confirming by July 1st are assumed to have declined acceptance to this option and will not be able to enroll in the required business school courses upon arrival. These students are however still eligible to enroll as students in the general ISE Master's degree program.