Graduate Requirements

Graduate Application Deadlines and Fees
Admission Requirements
Language Requirement

ITSC Graduate Program

The ITSC’s Master’s program provide students with not only the knowledge and skills required for careers in industry, business or government, but also the research skills and communication theory that will prepare them for doctoral study in communication and rhetoric.

The long-range goal of the Master of Arts and Master of Science degrees, then, is to enable program graduates to grow as professionals and, ultimately, to contribute to the developing field of technical and scientific communication.

While studies in both programs provide students with a sound foundation in writing, editing and document production, the Master of Arts degree typically attracts students with undergraduate work centered in the humanities. Although these students often supplement their TSC degree plan with courses in the sciences, they are primarily interested in gaining extensive knowledge and practice in writing and editing skills that are not tied to a single technical or scientific field but, rather, are applicable to multiple technical or scientific areas.



Graduate Application Deadlines and Fees

The Graduate School has a rolling admission policy. However, to guarantee your application will be reviewed in time to meet your anticipated date of registration, submit your completed application by the following dates:
  • Summer session- April 1
  • Spring semester- November 1
  • Fall semester- July 1


The following materials should be submitted directly to the Graduate School:
  • official graduate application form
  • $55 nonrefundable application fee
  • official transcripts (in individually sealed envelopes from all previously attended institutions)
  • official standardized test scores (GRE or GMAT


Graduate applications will not be processed without application fees. Fee waivers are not available. Any supporting documentation or additional program-specific requirements should be mailed separately to the graduate program to which the application is being made. The envelope containing these materials should be clearly marked “graduate application materials.”

Be sure to check with the ITSC program to see if additional deadlines apply.
Applications not completed in 150 days will not be processed for admission. Students are advised to check on the status of their application.

Application forms and materials may be obtained from the Graduate School. If requested, the graduate catalog, financial aid information, GRE and GMAT testing information, and class schedules for the following semester can also be mailed or picked up at the Graduate School office.

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Admission may begin in either the Fall or Spring semester. To receive full consideration for admission into the programs as well as for financial aid, students should submit their application packages to The Graduate School by May 31 for fall semester and August 31 for spring semester.
Application forms for admission and assistantships are available online from The Graduate School at https://www.applyweb.com/apply/jmug/.

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Language Requirement

The Master of Arts and Master of Science programs require that the candidate demonstrate graduate-level proficiency in foreign language, statistics or computer programming in one of following ways:
  • completing the second year of a college course in a modern foreign language with a grade of “C” or above, or completion of the foreign language placement exam administered by the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures with a placement into the junior level of the language
  • completing an approved graduate statistics or computer programming course (or equivalent) with a grade of “B” or better
  • receiving a waiver from the department of its foreign language examination or the required statistics or computing course work based on the student’s extensive language background in one of those areas


A student should state in his or her plan of study the means by which he or she has already satisfied or plans to satisfy the language requirement. A degree candidate must complete the language requirement before taking the comprehensive exams.


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