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University Requirements

Application and Application Fee

Prospective students are required to use our online system to create an account and submit an application. The application opens approximately one year in advance and is only good for the term and program in which it is submitted. Applicants who have submitted their application and wish to change their admission term or major/concentration may submit a new application and associated application fee. If you would like to cancel an open application, please contact us.

A $30 (USD) application fee is required regardless of previous enrollment. The application fee is non-refundable and cannot be waived. Undergraduate application fees cannot be used for a graduate application, and vise versa. The application fee must be submitted prior to the review of an application.

Current students who would like to add or change a major, concentration or certificate should submit the Change of Concentration or Major form.

College Transcripts

All applicants must provide transcripts from a U.S. institution accredited by an accepted institutional accreditor or its equivalent from a non-US institution that awarded the bachelor’s degree and master’s degree, if applicable, and transcripts from institutions where any post-baccalaureate and/or graduate credits were earned.

All admits must provide official transcripts.

All international transcripts will require a course-by-course evaluation by an approved third-party credential evaluation agency unless a graduate program has established an alternative credential evaluation procedure that is approved by the graduate school. To be accepted, the evaluation must be:

1. Translated to English and be the U.S. equivalent
2. Evaluated course-by-course
3. Include the overall academic GPA
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Important Notes

• The ³ÉÈË´óƬGraduate School cannot request transcripts on an applicants behalf.
• Unofficial transcript copies are accepted for admissions but must clearly state the institution name, student name, course information, terms, grades, and credits. Degree audits are not accepted. Admitted students will be prompted to provide official transcripts. 
• If currently enrolled in courses, an incomplete transcript must be submitted before the posted deadline. 
• Applicants who also have to apply through systems such as ATCAS or PTCAS, must submit separate transcripts to UNF. 
• Official transcripts must:
  • Must be less than one year old from the date of printing
  • Must be submitted in a sealed envelope from your institution, or emailed through official electronic means.
• When requesting college transcripts, please verify with your institution(s) whether or not they are able to submit electronic transcripts in the proper EDI format. Institutions can submit transcripts via e-mail to graduateschool@unf.edu from an approved vendor such as ScriptSafe, Credentials, or Parchment. 
• Former or current ³ÉÈË´óƬstudents should not request ³ÉÈË´óƬtranscripts. After application submission, the ³ÉÈË´óƬrequirement will be updated to a "waived" status.

Where Do I Send Transcripts and Test Scores?

Mail

³ÉÈË´óƬGraduate School
1 ³ÉÈË´óƬDrive
Jacksonville, FL 32224

Email

graduateschool@unf.edu

Test Score Institutional Codes

GRE: institutional code 5490
GMAT: institutional code CF3QB51

Program Requirements

Specific Requirements

• A minimum of 72 credits beyond the baccalaureate degree or a minimum of 48 credits of graduate coursework
  • A minimum of 24 credits of doctoral dissertation research
• Successful completion of the qualification process
• Successful completion of the candidacy process
• Successful completion of the defense examination
• Approval of PhD dissertation

Application Requirements

In addition to the general Graduate School application requirements, the application materials for the Computing PhD program must include the following:

• Three letters of recommendation
• A recent resume
• A statement of purpose, not to exceed 500 words.
• GRE verbal and quantitative scores

Admissions Requirements

• A four-year baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited U.S. institution, or its equivalent from a foreign institution, with a GPA of 3.0 or higher in all work attempted in the last 60 credit hours of undergraduate study.
• If the applicant has a graduate degree in a Computing field, graduate courses may be considered if the undergraduate GPA is less than 3.0
• If the previously earned degrees (undergraduate or graduate) were not in a Computing field, completion of the following background subjects at the undergraduate level is required before enrolling in any graduate courses.
  • Procedural and Objective-Oriented Programming
  • Data Structures
  • Applied Discrete Mathematics
  • Databases
  • Computer Networks
• Grades of "B" or above are required in any undergraduate preparatory course work taken at UNF.
• A minimum score of 150 in the GRE verbal section
• A minimum score of 155 in the GRE quantitative section