MASTER OF ARTS in ENGLISH

TSU students earning a Master of Arts in English go to law school, write for newspapers, teach in community colleges, develop websites, and more.

Below you will find information on

• admission requirements
• important dates
• application form
• contact information for the Graduate Studies Director

ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Complete 24 hours of English at the undergraduate level, 12 of which must be a junior or senior level. You may gain conditional admission prior to completion of these undergraduate course requirements, but you must complete these courses before taking any graduate courses.

Unconditional admission requires you to have a

• bachelor's degree from an accredited four-year college or university
• an undergraduate cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 2.5 or better on a 4.0 scale
  
  
• a score of at least 870 combined on the verbal, quantitative, and subject portions of the GRE
  OR 
• 370 on the Miller Analogies Test (MAT)

Conditional admission may be gained with a lower grade point average, but the GRE or MAT score must be correspondingly higher:

• a GPA between 2.25 and 2.49 requires a GRE score of 935 or MAT score of 383
• a GPA between 2.0 and 2.24 requires a GRE of 1,000 or MAT score of 394

• You must submit test scores at the time of application if you are applying for conditional admission.
• You must remove conditional status by earning at least a B (3.0) average in the first 9 hours of graduate courses.

IMPORTANT DATES

APPLICATION FORM

Review the Graduate School website for information on financial aid, fees, and other information you will need as a graduate student. The graduate catalog describes the courses. 

Complete the graduate application online.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Graduate Studies Coordinator

Luke Powers
312 Humanities Bldg.
615-963-5726
lpowers@tnstate.edu