Stony Brook University Graduate Admissions

At Stony Brook University, we equip students with the knowledge and tools to address the most critical issues facing our world today. Our graduates are leaders, inventors, discoverers, and agents for social change. With more than 150 graduate and professional programs across the Graduate School, the School of Professional Development, and Health Sciences, Stony Brook can help you master your future and transform tomorrow.

Once you create an account, you can save and update your material as often as necessary until you click the “Finalize Application” button. Once the application is reviewed and a decision is made by the programs admissions committee, the Slate portal will be updated. You should continue to check the Slate portal for information on your admissions decision.

For any College of Business applicants, please use one of the links below for the appropriate term and category:

Once your application is submitted, you can log on to track its status. Before applying review checklist below:

Application Checklist

• Online Application

Apply Online Here All applications must be submitted electronically through our online application system. Once you create an account, you can save and update your material as often as necessary until you click the “Finalize Application” button. Once your application is submitted, you can log on to track its status.

An applicant must have a minimum cumulative grade point average of 3.00 on a 4.00 point scale. If the student attends a college that only gives Passes or Credits for the first year of study, then these grades will be evaluated as C for GPA admission purposes unless the student provides actual grades. Please see your specific department program page for information regarding admissions criteria.

The application fee for admission to the Graduate School is $100. All applicants are required to pay the application fee, with limited exceptions (see below)

• Applicants who re-apply for admission within one academic year of declining an official offer of admission. Please attach a copy of the offer letter and a copy of the email declining admission to the application before submission. These items are needed for review and approval
• Students who are U.S. citizens and have current documentation from a financial aid administrator of an appropriate college or university official substantiating that they are currently enrolled and that the payment of the application would create a financial hardship (complete financial information for the current academic year must be provided, including total cost of education and amount and types of financial aid received). To qualify, applicants must include the necessary documentation listed above at the time of application submission review. These items are needed for review and approval.
• Current students who have a fellowship/scholarship through EOP, HEOP, SEEK, McNair, Project 1000, AGEP, CSTEP, LSAMP, and AMSNY. To qualify, applicants must have a letter or email from the appropriate agency sent to the Graduate School attached to the application upon submission for review and approval of the application fee waiver request.
• Veterans of the United States Military Service, currently on Active Duty of members of the National Guard or Reserves are exempt from paying the application fee. NOTE: Before fee waiver is applied, veterans must be vetted through the Office of Veteran Affairs at Stony Brook University and must submit a copy of their discharge paperwork (DD Form 214) with their application submission for review and approval of the application fee waiver request.

For further information on application fee waivers and the fee waiver request process, please visit the Graduate Bulletin .

• Paper recommendations can be sent in, but you must use the paper recommendation form from your application portal and give it to your recommender. Paper recommendations must be sent directly to the graduate program you are applying to in sealed envelopes, signed across the seal by the recommender.
• In order to gain access to our recommendation forms, you must submit an application. Within your application, you can either send emails directing your recommenders to each submit a recommendation online, or you may download a paper recommendation form and give it to your recommender. Paper recommendations must be sent directly to the graduate program you are applying to in sealed envelopes, signed across the seal by the recommender.

1. World Education Services (WES)
2. International Education Evaluations, Inc. (IEE)
3. Education Credential Evaluators (ECE)
4. SpanTran Application

Unofficial copies for both domestic and international credentials are acceptable for an admission decision to be made. If admitted, the applicant must submit final official transcripts/evaluations sent directly from the college/university or evaluation agency as noted above.

College-level courses completed outside the United States and recorded on official transcripts will be evaluated for transfer credit, provided that the institution where the courses were taken is accredited by the Ministry of Education in that country. International transfer students who have completed college level courses outside the United States may be requested to submit proof of accreditation by the Ministry of Education or provide a WES evaluation.

Official transcripts can be mailed to:

Stony Brook University Graduate School Office of Admissions and Student Services Old Computer Science Bldg, Room 2401 Stony Brook, NY 11794-4433

Electronic transcripts can be sent to gradadmissions@stonybrook.edu

Academic records from international universities that are not in English must be accompanied by an official English translation. Academic records must be translated by an authoritative party:- We will accept translations from any of the accredited agencies that can be viewed at www.atanet.org or naces.org. We will also accept translations from SBU faculty members or the institution from which the degree was conferred.

If your official transcript (or mark sheet) does not specifically state that a degree (or its equivalent) has been conferred, you will also need to submit an official (attested) diploma or an official certification of degree(s) awarded.

Educational systems that cannot be compared to the United States must be evaluated by a US credentials evaluation service before admission can be finalized. The transcript evaluation service accepted by Stony Brook University is World Education Services (WES), which can be accessed at http://www.wes.org/ .

If you are sending GRE or English Proficiency scores, please upload unofficial score reports to your application in order for your application to be reviewed. Your English proficiency exam must have been taken within 2 years of the application deadline. Prior to enrollment at the University, official scores must be submitted. You must request that ETS send official score reports to Stony Brook University (School code: 2548).

ETS Educational Partnership

• question types and test-taking strategies to help you tackle the Verbal Reasoning, Quantitative Reasoning and Analytical Writing sections
• what to expect on test day, scores, and score reporting
• tools to help you prepare for the test
• services available to help you stand out, including tools that can make it easier to connect with graduate program recruiters

• you hold a degree such as a high school diploma, bachelors, masters, or PhD from an institution where the primary instruction was in English.
• you are a US citizen (or US National) or Permanent Resident.
• you served as a Teaching Assistant at an institution where the primary instruction was in English.

English language proficiency test results will be considered as part of the review process for admission for any applicant who submits test results as part of their application. If the scores are below the stated requirements, an offer of admission cannot be extended.

To be considered for admission, an applicant who is not a native or primary speaker of English or do not qualify to be exempt from a language proficiency exam based on their answers to the application questions listed above, must present a minimum score for either the TOEFL, IELTS or Duolingo tests, as defined below.

• IELTS: Overall score of 6.5, with no subsection recommended to be below 6.
• TOEFL iBT: Overall score of 90 for doctoral applicants and 80 for master’s applicants.
• Duolingo: Overall score of 110 for doctoral applicants and 105 for doctoral applicants.

Students who will have a teaching role at the University and whose speaking test scores do not meet our minimum standards for teaching will be assigned to an Oral Academic English (OAE) course.