For the purposes of granting a waiver of the GRE requirement as a component of the application for admission to the master’s degree or certificate programs in The Graduate School of Political Management, relevant experience is defined as follows:
Three years of full-time (35 or more hours per week), professional, management-level experience that includes some combination of program responsibility, independent decision-making authority, official high-level outside contacts, budgetary responsibility and/or supervisory authority. For the Public Relations program the experience must be in a professional public relations capacity.
Things to know about applying for the GRE Waiver:
- The waiver option is designed to help those applicants who have been out of school for some time and whose professional experience gives the school a measure of their capabilities that adequately substitute for the GRE.
- The great majority of applicants will continue to take the GRE as part of their application process.
- The waiver decision is made independent of and prior to the review of the application for admission. Applicants will know whether or not to plan to take or report GRE scores. GRE waiver requests should be submitted as early as possible and before preparing a complete application.
- Applicants whose request for waiver is denied cannot apply for conditional admission in anticipation of taking the GRE in the future.
- Applicants who are denied a GRE waiver, may enroll in up to three courses or nine credits as a non-degree student while preparing for the GRE.
