Applied and Engineering Physics

Admission requirements

Below are the university criteria for admission:

• To be eligible an applicant must have a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education. You must have earned or will earn* a four-year baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited US institution, or an equivalent degree from a nationally recognized non-US institution. *Applications may be submitted during the final year of undergraduate study. Acceptance is contingent on award of a baccalaureate degree before matriculation to a graduate or professional program at Mason.
• You must have earned a 3.00 GPA on a 4.00 scale or better in your baccalaureate study. The GPA requirement can be higher for individual graduate programs.
• If you are an applicant with domestic educational credentials (inside the United States): you may upload unofficial copies of your transcripts on the online application. If admitted, you must provide an official hard copy of a transcript for all of your post-secondary work upon enrollment. (Transcripts uploaded to the application during the admissions process are marked as unofficial.) For full information on submitting your unofficial transcripts as part of your online application, please visit the Application Requirements page for more details.
• If you are an applicant with international educational credentials (outside the United States): you must provide official hard copies of your official transcripts in English and the original language via postal mail either prior to or at the point of application submission. We will not accept unofficial transcript uploads on the online application. For full information on submitting your international transcripts, along with information on the required International Transcript Evaluation, please read over our International Transcript Guidelines for more details.
• If you have international credentials, you must meet the Graduate English Proficiency Exams to be eligible for direct-entry.