Applicants are admitted to graduate study in the CEE upon approval of the OGS, the Departmental Graduate Coordinator, and the Department’s Graduate Faculty. Admission is based on the criteria listed below. Admission requires that the applicant be accepted by a faculty member in their sub‐discipline area who is willing to serve as their major professor. Applicants are encouraged contact appropriate faculty after completion of the application. There is not a minimum required GRE score for admission as the admission decision is not based on any one single factor. However, the score should be competitive and successful applicants to the CEE graduate program typically have a GRE score of 157 or higher on the Quantitative Reasoning section of the exam. (Note: GRE test scores are only valid for five years.) Regular admission requires that the applicant have a Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Master of Science (M.S.),

or Master of Engineering (M.E.) in Civil Engineering. The qualifying degree program must provide the

applicant with the core competencies of the sub‐discipline in which the applicant wishes to focus their

graduate studies. Students not meeting those requirements may be eligible for a contingent admission. The minimum grade point average (GPA) required for regular admission to the CEE graduate program is

3.0 (A = 4.00). These are generally calculated on all coursework completed in obtaining the Bachelor of

Science degree, but alternative evaluations on the last 65 hours of undergraduate coursework and the

GPA of prior graduate degrees will also be considered.