General Admission Requirements:

An applicant for graduate admission at Hunter College is expected to, at minimum:

• Hold a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution, comparable in standard and content to a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College. Degrees granted on the basis of work completed at institutions which are not fully accredited, or on the basis of non-academic prior learning, test scores, and other than organized supervised course work in academic subjects will not be considered comparable.
• Have a “B” average for courses in the area of specialization, an overall “B minus” average for the baccalaureate, and a “B” average for any courses taken on the graduate level. 

International applicants are expected to demonstrate above average scholarship. 

Additional program requirements can be found in the Program Requirements Section.

Application Procedure:

You may only apply to one program for any given semester; please decide which of our programs is the most appropriate for you.

We have tried to make the admissions process as simple and straightforward as possible. Applying for admission to a graduate program at Hunter is a two-step process.

• The first step is completing the Application for Graduate Degree Admissions. Hunter College offers a Web-based application in hopes that it will make our application process as easy and convenient as possible for you. We encourage all applicants to use the online application.  See Apply Online for additional information.
• The second step is collecting and submitting the required supporting application documents.  Please review Supporting Application Documents and Program Requirements to make sure that you submit all the required materials. We place the responsibility on the applicant for collecting all supporting documents needed for the application. In this way applicants can be certain that they have submitted everything needed for the review and evaluation of their applications before the application deadline.

Application Fee:

A $125 application fee is required of all applicants. Applications submitted without the fee cannot be processed.  You can pay your application fee via credit card online when you are ready to submit your online application form or you can mail a check or money order to the Graduate Admissions Office.  Please make checks or money orders payable to Hunter College. If a check is written for you by someone else, be sure your name appears on the face of the check.

Those currently attending Hunter as graduate non-degree students who are applying for degree status need not pay this fee.

As the application fee is devoted to the administrative cost of processing all applications, it is not refundable under any circumstances, regardless of the outcome, the date of filing, the time of review, or, if for whatever reason, the application is withdrawn.