Graduate Program in Marine Biology, College of Charleston

Minimum Requirements for Admission

1. A completed application form with a nonrefundable application fee ($45 for on-line application, $75 for paper application). Deadlines: February 1 for fall admission, November 1 for spring admission.
2. A personal statement/statement of goals.
3. One official transcript from each institution of higher learning attended.
4. An official copy of scores from the general and subject (biology) test of the Graduate Record Examination.
5. Three letters of recommendation from persons closely associated with previous work related to the discipline.
6. Evidence of background in the sciences:
   1. A bachelor’s degree.
   2. Twenty semester hours of upper division biological courses, including a course in cellular or molecular biology (or the equivalent) and a course in ecology (or the equivalent).
   3. Chemistry - two courses in organic or one course in analytical (beyond first year chemistry).
   4. General Physics - two courses.
   5. Calculus - one course.
   6. Students with otherwise outstanding academic preparation who may lack one of the required courses may be admitted as provisional students.
7. Evidence of a command of spoken and written English (TOEFL score).