Determine your area of interest.

Contact appropriate faculty members in your area of interest to see if they have an opening in their research group. Correspond with faculty members who have openings. They may wish to see unofficial supporting documents (transcripts, GRE, etc.).

Once a faculty member has conveyed interest in your joining their research group and has encouraged you to apply, you can obtain an application through the MSU graduate school via the web (http://www.msu.edu/user/gradschl/) or by contacting Faith Peterson at petersof@cvm.msu.edu.

Fill out the online application and remit the fee to the University.

Send the statement of purpose to the Postgraduate Training Committee (address below).

Contact all colleges/universities previously attended and ask that one official transcript be sent to the Postgraduate Training Committee (address below).

Contact testing services for GRE and TOEFL (if an international student) and have them send official scores to the University Office of Admissions. You may have already completed this step when you took the exam. The department does not require GRE scores but encourages students to take the exam and submit the results.

Ask three people to write letters of recommendation and have them sent to:

Postgraduate Training Committee
c/o Faith Peterson
Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences
D202 Veterinary Medical Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing MI 48824-1314
USA

After the Postgraduate Training Committee has received your application and all supporting documents, the application packet will be reviewed. The committee will decide if the applicant is admissible.

Note: Only students with arrangements to work with a specific faculty member will be admitted. Applications received without this arrangement will be made available to all faculty for consideration, however, students applying this way are rarely admitted.

Deadline

Application materials should be at the University Office of Admissions three months before the beginning of the semester to which you are applying.

Additional Information

The 'Information for Students' section of the MSU web site (http://www.msu.edu/students/) is a great source for further information.

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