f. Graduate Admission Test Scores (e.g., GMAT, GRE, PRAXIS, etc.)

All applicants for graduate admission are required to submit graduate admissions test scores. As explained below, there are some exceptions regarding the graduate admissions test scores requirements. However, graduate assistantships or sponsorships typically require satisfactory graduate admission test scores. Therefore, if you plan to seek or apply for graduate assistantships or sponsorships, you should take the appropriate graduate admission test and submit the test scores at the time of applying for admission. The official test scores report must be sent directly by the testing agency to the Office of Graduate Studies. Graduate admission test must have been taken within the past five years leading to the application due date.

The following are exceptions or conditions for possible waiver from graduate admission test scores requirements.:

• The Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program requires professional certification credentials, instead.
• An applicant who has successfully completed a graduate degree at a regionally accredited institution.
• An applicant who earned a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university or a foreign institution with comparable accreditation and obtained a minimum cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.0 (on a 4-point scale). Note that GPA cannot be rounded up. For instance, an overall GPA of 2.99 cannot be rounded up to 3.0.

Certain domestic students who may not have had the opportunity to take the test, but have good academic standing, may be admitted provisionally for one semester provided that they take the test during their initial semester in graduate school.

It is the responsibility of the applicant or student to apply for and take the required graduate admission test and to have the testing agency send directly the official scores to the Office of Graduate Studies.

Information about each of the following graduate admissions tests is available from the corresponding website address:

GMAT Test – http://www.mba.com/

GRE Test – http://www.ets.org/gre

PRAXIS Test – https://www.ets.org/praxis/

The institutional code to use to request graduate admission test scores to be sent to Kentucky State University is 1368.

KSU GRADUATE CATALOGUE, 2017-2018