Doctor of Philosophy degree program

Admissions criteria and guidelines

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 and received a combined verbal and quantitative score of at least 1000 on the aptitude test of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) with at least 320 on the verbal part.

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 Ph.D. program are:

• Quantitative: at least 650, Analytical: at least 4.5.
• Combined Quantitative and Verbal: at least 1100.

Test results must be sent directly to the Registrar from the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Foreign students whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) examination and score at least 550.