Graduate School Admissions

If you hold a Bachelor's Degree from a University-recognized institution, you are eligible for graduate school admission to Keller. If you are an International student applying from outside the United States, you need to hold a degree recognized as equivalent to a U.S. baccalaureate degree to be eligible for admission. You also will need to fulfill Keller's English-Proficiency Requirements, as all instructions and services are provided in English.

As a Keller graduate school admission applicant, you will need to demonstrate math and verbal skills proficiency. Proficiency can be demonstrated by:

• Achieving an undergraduate GPA higher than 2.50 on a 4.0 scale
• Submitting acceptable Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or Graduate Record Examination (GRE) test scores
• Submitting an acceptable Keller-administered test score

If your undergraduate GPA is below 2.50 on a 4.0 scale, you must achieve acceptable scores on the GMAT, GRE or the Keller-administered admission test. The Keller-administered test may be completed, by appointment, wherever our graduate programs are offered, or through the University's Assessment Center. GMAT and GRE test scores are valid up to five years from the date of the exams.

Applicants whose demonstrated proficiency indicates they are prepared to enroll directly into their program's standard coursework without any preceding prerequisite skills coursework are referred to as placing at the standard level.

Selected programs have additional program-related prerequisite skills requirements, which are noted in the program descriptions and in the Graduate Academic Catalog.

All instruction and services are provided in English.

In addition to fulfilling all other admission requirements, applicants whose native language is other than English must demonstrate English-language proficiency. The English-language proficiency requirement is waived for applicants who meet one of the following criteria:

• English is identified as the official/native language of the country in which the applicants completed all of their secondary education, or postsecondary, advanced or professional degree, as designated in the CIA's The World Factbook.
  
• English is not the official/native language of the country in which the applicants completed their secondary or postsecondary education; however, English was the principal language of instruction at their institution*

Applicants whose native language is other than English may also demonstrate English-language proficiency by providing evidence of one of the following:

• Submission of a high school diploma, or post-secondary degree or higher, earned at an institution in which the language of instruction was English*
• Submission of a post-secondary transcript verifying completion of 30 semester- credit hours of baccalaureate-level courses (excluding remedial and developmental courses) with at least a C (70 percent) average from an institution at which the language of instruction was English*
• Submission of an earned Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) score of at least 550 on the paper-based TOEFL, 213 on the computer-based TOEFL or 79 on the Internet-based TOEFL**
• Submission of an overall band score of at least 6.0 on the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) exam**
• Submission of an overall score of at least 4.5 on the International Test of English Proficiency (iTEP) Academic-Plus exam**
• Submission of an overall score of at least 58 on the Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic
• Successful completion of an approved external Intensive English Program
• Submission of documents demonstrating successful completion of a DeVry-recognized advanced-level English as a Second Language (ESL) course
• Completion of either of the following, with a grade of B (80 percent) or higher, from a DeVry-recognized post-secondary institution or community college:
• The equivalent of DeVry's freshman English composition course
• Two or more baccalaureate-level English writing or composition courses
• Documents verifying at least two years' service in the U.S. military
• Having attained acceptable score on a DeVry-administered English-language- proficiency exam†