Master's in Mass Communications
Admission Requirements
Applicants must meet the Murray State University requirements.
Additional requirements for unconditional and conditional admission are
as follows:
Unconditional
Unconditional admission is granted to applicants who have a bachelor's
degree from an ACEJMC accredited , or similarly rigorous, program in
any
mass communications field; and whose undergraduate GPA is 2.75 or
higher.
International
students must submit TOEFL scores
of at least 213 computer-based test, including at least 21 on each of
the three
verbal areas, or 20 in each of the four areas of the Internet based
test in
addition to the above requirements.
Conditional
Conditional admission may be granted to applicants who have a
bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in fields
other than mass communications; or whose undergraduate GPA is between
2.50 and 2.74.
International students entering the JMC
program from the
Murray State University English as Second Language program (ESL) must
complete
Level 6 AND students must submit TOEFL scores of at least 213
computer-based
test, including at least 21 on each of the three verbal areas, or 18 in
each of
the four areas of the Internet based test in addition to the above
requirements.
All students granted conditional admission must earn at least a 3.0
grade point average in their first nine hours of graduate courses, with
no single grade below a B, in order to remain in the program. The
Graduate Coordinator may require up to nine (9) hours of additional
prerequisite courses, including JMC
599 (Click here for syllabus.), for any student admitted
conditionally.
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