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ENTRANCE REQUIREMENTS

Admission to the Department.—For admission to the Department of Graduate
Studies a baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution of collegiate
rank is required, for men and women alike. In order to become a
candidate for a degree, the student must be advanced to candidacy by the
Committee on Rules and Courses upon formal application, as set forth below.

Advancement to Candidacy for a Degree.—Any graduate student who
wishes to become a candidate for a degree must file with the Dean of the
Department his application on a blank form to be secured from the Dean's
Secretary. This application must include a proposed program of work
arranged in accordance with the requirements for the several degrees as
stated below, and must be accompanied, in case the applicant does not hold
an academic degree from this University, by an official transcript of the
applicant's academic record made out by the Registrar of the institution
from which the baccalaureate degree was received, and by a catalogue of
that institution, marked to show the courses of study pursued. The application
will be submitted by the Dean to the Committee on Rules and Courses,
who will consider it in conference with the professors concerned. The Committee
will have the right to require that the applicant add to his program
any courses, undergraduate or graduate, considered necessary to supply his
deficiencies, or to enable him to pursue with profit the courses he has selected.
When the program has been finally approved, the Dean will report to the
applicant his advancement to candidacy for a degree.

It should be distinctly understood that graduate degrees are not conferred
merely upon the basis of the number of courses passed, or of the
length of time spent in resident or non-resident work, but upon the basis of
the quality and scope of the candidate's knowledge, and his power of investigation
in his chosen field of study. Candidates whose training and attainments
are inferior cannot expect to secure a degree in the normal length of
time estimated below for the respective degrees.