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An important part of our application process begins when you email your Electrical Engineering Department Application, scanned transcripts, GRE test scores, and TOEFL score if you are an international student. One of the reasons this is important is because it allows the department to begin reviewing your application for admission and financial assistance before we receive your official Graduate School application from the Graduate School. This is a timely process. Last year we had approximately 800 applications for admission.
The department will not consider any applicant for admission who has not filed both a Graduate School application and a Department application. Minnesota residents who are part-time students working in industry need only submit the Graduate Application and the Department application (they do not need to submit scanned copies of transcripts and test scores).
Our first Graduate Committee meeting to review Graduate applicant files for admission and financial assistance will be around the middle of December. We would not be to begin this process in December if we waited for the Graduate School to forward all Graduate School applications to our program before beginning the admissions/financial assistance process.
Please complete the following and email to Linda Jagerson by November 30th.
- The Department Application - Excel Report
- Scanned transcripts and GRE scores plus TOEFL score if an international applicant
- Attach your resume. as a word document.
- Attach your statement of purpose, as a word document. Please take care in preparing your statement of purposes as outline on this web page.
NOTE TO APPLICANTS FROM THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, KOREA, TAIWAN, AND HONG KONG:
Please note the GRE General Test will be administered in two parts in the People’s Republic of China, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The Analytical Writing section is offered on computer; the Verbal and Quantitative sections are offered at a paper-based administration.
Test takers are required to take both the computer-based and paper-based parts of the GRE General Test in the same testing year, and must take the computer-based Analytical Writing portion first. A choice of two paper-based administrations will be offered during the 2006-07 testing year, spaced out so as to minimize congestion in the computer-based test (CBT) centers. You should schedule an appointment for the CBT Analytical Writing measure through the Prometric Regional Registration Center.
For more information refer to the GRE Web Site  .
The Graduate Record Examinations® (GRE®) General Test measures verbal reasoning, quantitative reasoning, and critical thinking and analytical writing skills that have been acquired over a long period of time and that are not related to any specific field of study.
- The GRE Institution Code for the University of Minnesota is 6874
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The GRE Department Code for the Electrical Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Minnesota is 1203
All international applications should submit GRE test scores (General Test scores only).
U.S. applicants desiring financial aid must submit GRE scores (unless you received your BEE. degree from the University of Minnesota). Only the GRE Split Test (paper-based verbal and quatitative; computer-based written analytical) is accepted for admissions applications. Applicants must have a bachelor's degree from an accredited engineering or science program; individuals with engineering technology degrees are not admissible.
- The TOEFL Institution Code for the University of Minnesota is 6874
- The TOEFL Department Code for the Electrical Engineering Graduate Program at the University of Minnesota is 66
- ETS will report previous scores for two years after the original test date. This means that your score must be two years old or less at the time you begin our program, not when you are admitted to our program.
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The following information is provided on the Graduate School website www.grad.umn.edu, perspective students.
TOEFL, MELAB, IELTS
The operational standard for admission to the Graduate School is a score of at least 213 on the computer based TOEFL (550 on the paper based TOEFL), 80 on the MELAB, or 6.5 on the IELTS; individual programs may have higher TOEFL, MELAB or IELTS requirements. The TOEFL, MELAB, or IELTS is required of all international applicants whose native language is not English, except those who will have completed 24 quarter credits/16 semester credits (within the past 24 months) in residence as a full-time student at a recognized institution of higher learning in the United States before entering the University of Minnesota. This requirement will not be waived.
NOTE: THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OPERATIONAL STANDARD FOR ADMISSION ON THE NEW INTERNET BASED TOEFL (IBT) IS A MINIMUM TOTAL SCORE OF 79, PLUS SECTION SCORES OF AT LEAST 21 ON THE WRITING SECTION AND 19 ON THE READING SECTION. INDIVIDUAL GRADUATE PROGRAMS MAY HAVE HIGHER REQUIREMENTS. Information about the new test, including implementation dates, is available at the link below.
- For information about the TOEFL, refer to TOEFL Online or write to:
TOEFL Services
Educational Testing Service
P.O. Box 899
Princeton, NJ 08541-6151 USA
- You may obtain information about IELTS at the IELTS web site or by writing to:
IELTS
100 East Corson St., Suite 200
Pasadena, CA 91103, USA
- Information about the MELAB is available by writing to:
English Language Institute
MELAB Office, TCF Building
University of Michigan
401 E. Liberty, Suite 350
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2298
Overseas MELAB testing is available on a limited basis in selected countries. An official report of the TOEFL, MELAB or IELTS scores should be sent to the Graduate School; our TOEFL institutional code is 6874.
NOTE: The Educational Testing Service (ETS) closed 84 international computer testing centers in June, 2003. A current list of available computer testing centers is on the ETS website. As an alternative, paper-based testing will be offered at colleges, universities, high schools, and advising centers in the affected areas. If you will be taking a paper-based TOEFL test please bear in mind that test scores will be mailed out 4-6 weeks after you take the test, and plan accordingly.
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The Graduate School application must be completed online at the Graduate School website. All letters of recommendation must be done online as part of the Graduate Application process. When you complete the Graduate Application you will be asked to list the email addresses of those writing letters of recommendation on your behalf. The Graduate School will contact your recommenders directly about what they need to do to submit their letters of recommendation online.
Statement of Purpose
The statement of purpose is an important part of your application. We are looking for diligent researchers capable of working hard and a consistent individual able to stick to a difficult task for a long time. Please include the following information when writing your statement of purpose:
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Make your statement concise. "Concise" means that you have given thought to the composition of your statement to make it a clear and cohesive piece of prose (with a natural/logical flow) that covers all the necessary points and doesn't cover unnecessary points.
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Describe what your principle research interests are.
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Desribe which experiences have contributed toward your preparation for further study in this field.
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Describe one research problem, project or area for Electrical Engineering that excites you.
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Describe how you are a "match" for our program. Explain what attracts you most to the University of Minnesota Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, to which you are applying. Align your research interests with one or more of professors listed on the ECE website.
- Tell us what are your future goals are.
What the statement of purpose should not be:
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The statement of purpose is not about character (honesty, sincerety, conscientiousness, etc.).
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The statement of purpose should not be an autobiographical sketch (for example, the story of your first computer when you were 10 years old and how it inspired you to devote your life to Electrical Engineering).
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