1. The admissions application process is now online. Please visit http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/prospective/apply_online.html for information before applying.
2. Be sure to review the admissions online application check list at http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/prospective/application_checklist.html
3. The online application is at URL http://apply.embark.com/grad/ucdavis
4. The application fee is $60 for the domestic application and $80 for the international application. The fee may be paid by credit card or e-check. The fee must be paid before the application will be considered as complete. The fee must be paid for each application submitted.
5. Letters of recommendation must be submitted electronically through the online application service. Do not have your recommenders send letters in hard copy form to the Geography Graduate Group program, but rather to submit all recommendations online once the online service is available.
6. Submit official transcripts ONLY after you have marked your application complete and submitted it.
7. Submit only ONE official transcript from each university, college or community college attended. The transcripts will be made available to each graduate program you apply to, as well as for the review of your fellowship application.
8. Send your official transcripts directly to the Geography Graduate Group. In case of multiple applications, send only one official transcript to your first choice of graduate programs OR to the first completed graduate program application.
9. Upload required curriculum vitae, resume, and/or writing samples via the online application web site. Applicants to programs that do not list these items as requirements will not be allowed to upload them.
For general information contact the UC Davis Office of Graduate Studies.
Minimum admission requirement: grade point average of B (3.0) in upper-division course work taken during the applicant's last two years as an undergraduate, or other evidence of comparable scholarship. Meeting this minimum requirement, however, does not assure acceptance. Admission is highly competitive and early application is encouraged.
GRE: Only the General Test is required; scores should be recent (within the past five years). A minimum combined score of 1100 for Verbal and Quantitative parts of the test is required for admission. Results should be received before January 15th for fellowship consideration, and before February 1st for Teaching Assistantship and other funding consideration.
TOEFL: The TOEFL is required of all applicants whose native language is not English, or whose education was not in English. A minimum score of 550 is required, or 213 if using the computer-based test. The Graduate Council has established an overall minimum score of 68 for the new TOEFL iBT.
Application materials include:
If applying to the Geography Graduate Group, please send official transcripts and TA applications directly to:
Program Coordinator
Department of Environmental Design
Graduate Group in Geography
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616-8585
(530) 752-4119 (telephone).
(530) 752-1392 (facsimile).
The annual application deadline for the GGG is January 15.