Requirements
To be eligible for admission to this degree program
at Mississippi State University, a student must have a bachelor’s
degree from an accredited institution, a minimum QPA of 2.75 on
a 4.00 scale over four years of undergraduate work or 3.00 GPA over
the last two years of undergraduate work for regular admission.
Applicants must have taken the Graduate Record Exam (GRE) and attained
a combined score of 800 or higher on the verbal and quantitative
portions of the exam. International students are required a minimum
TOEFL score of 550 paper based test or 173 on the computer based
test.
Provisional Admission - A student
who has not fully met the requirements stipulated by the University
and the department for admission to graduate study may be granted
admission as a degree-seeking graduate student with provisional
status. Such student must have as his/her initial objective advancement
to regular status. A provisional student must receive a 3.00 GPA
on the first nine hours of graduate level courses on the program
of study taken at Mississippi State University (transfer hours or
unclassified graduate hours will not apply) in order to achieve regular status.
If a 3.00 is not attained, the provisional student will be dismissed
from graduate study. While in the provisional status, a student
is not eligible to hold a graduate assistantship.
The following items must be submitted
to the MSU Division of Academic Outreach & Continuing Education
Operations Department, P.O. Box 5247, Mississippi State, MS 39762-5247:
- Application for admission
- Written "Statement of Purpose"
- Three letters of recommendation
- Official transcripts sent directly from the registrar
of all colleges previously attended
- Official GRE scores should be submitted directly
to the Department of Food Science, Nutrition, and Health Promotion
Dr. Barry Hunt - P.O. Box 9805, Mississippi State, MS 39762
