Graduate Advising
On This Page:
Current Students
- Steps for Completing Your Master's Degree
- Steps for Completing Your Master's Degree (Biology specific with links to timeline and forms)
- Candidacy and Graduation Deadlines
- Changing your status from Conditionally Classified to Classified
- Submitting and completing Candidacy [pdf]
- Award for Master's Degree forms
- Forms: Change of Major, Candidacy, Graduation Forms, and more
- Information about thesis requirements and deadlines
Prospective Students
Must fill out the Graduate Admissions and Evaluations form Change in Classification in Master's Program form [pdf] You must be a Classified Graduate Student in order to advance to Candidacy.
When filling out the Change in Classification form you must:
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Meet the “conditions” set by the graduate student's Major Adviser at the time of admission.
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For example, MS Physiology and MS Molecular and Microbiology must take the GRE and the subject GRE in order to be classified, since this is a requirement for admissions. You cannot be a “classified” graduate student in one of these major unless the GRE is completed (even though you are already admitted).
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Have your Major Adviser sign your classification form.
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Bring the signed form to the Graduate Coordinator, who will also sign-off and forward the form to the Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluations office.