Admissions Deadlines

Overview

There are two general types of admissions-related deadlines:

1. Admission application deadlines for specific departments are typically tied to the awarding of fellowships. A list of department deadlines appears below. Applicants who indicate on their application for admission that they seek financial aid will automatically be considered for fellowships by the department to which they are applying. This includes the Graduate School’s Presidential Fellowships. To be eligible to receive such a fellowship, applicants must apply by the department deadline. Occasionally, if a department has accepted all of the students it can accommodate, the admissions application acceptance period will be abbreviated and end before the department deadline. Departments nominate applicants for the Jefferson Graduate Fellowships, awarded by the Jefferson Scholars Graduate Fellowship Foundation, at the end of January. For consideration, applications must be submitted by the department’s application deadline or mid-January, whichever is earlier.
2. April 15, 2010 enrollment acceptance deadline for admitted applicants to indicate they have decided they will attend the Graduate School. This is a nationwide standard deadline agreed upon by a resolution of the Council of Graduate Schools. Though a small number of our departments officially still accept admissions applications up to and after this date, it is the norm for the Graduate School to extend acceptance offers early enough for applicants to meet this deadline.

Department Deadlines

Some departments and programs have their own admissions application deadlines. In many cases the deadline is tied to the awarding of department fellowships.

December 1, 2009	French* History Politics* Psychology Spanish
December 3, 2009	Religious Studies*
December 8, 2009	History of Art and Architecture*
December 15, 2009	Anthropology*
December 21, 2009	Biology
December 31, 2009	Astronomy*
January 2, 2010	English Music Sociology*
January 4, 2010	Philosophy* Creative Writing
January 5, 2010	Classics*
January 7, 2010	Physics*
January 15, 2010	East Asian Studies Environmental Sciences* German* Mathematics* Slavic*
February 1, 2010	Chemistry Economics* Philosophy Statistics*
February 15, 2010	Linguistics
March 1, 2010	Public Health Sciences
April 1, 2010	Economics Nursing
April 15, 2010	Biomedical Ethics Biomedical Sciences Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures (accepting applications pending program approval) Statistics

* Department financial aid deadline