Applications can be completed online by going to:

http://www-afa.adm.ohio-state.edu/grad/

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS-- Minimum requirements include:

1. A baccalaureate or professional degree from an accredited college or university;
2. In general, a 2.7 or better cumulative point-hour ratio (based on the A = 4.0 system) for all previous academic work, including graduate work, if any;
3. Prerequisite academic work which gives evidence that the applicant should be able to pursue effectively the graduate program of this department. For Entomology, this minimum background is 40 quarter hours of biology courses, 10 quarter hours of mathematics, and 18 quarter hours of chemistry, including a course in organic, biochemistry, or physical chemistry. (Each semester hour earned equals 1.5 quarter hours);
4. The Graduate Record Examination (GRE), including Verbal, Quantitative, Analytical portions;
5. Three letters of recommendation;
6. A statement of purpose for graduate work and brief autobiography that includes scholarly activities or experiences other than formal course work.

Although applications may be reviewed at any time, we encourage applicants in their senior year as undergraduates to apply in January of that year. If successful, they will be admitted provisionally until the Bachelor's degree is actually conferred. Applicants with inadequate preparation or an unacceptable cumulative point-hour ratio may occasionally be admitted as regular or conditional graduate students, at the discretion of the Department Graduate Committee and the Dean of the Graduate School. Students admitted on a conditional basis will follow a program to correct academic deficiencies before being changed to the status of a regular graduate student. Conditional students may not become Teaching Associates or Research Associates under normal circumstances. A student admitted as a conditional student must fulfill the conditions and be recommended for change from conditional to regular no later than the end of the student's third quarter in residence. A conditional student cannot become a candidate for a degree while on conditional status, but all graduate credit hours accumulated in this status may be counted toward a degree.