OU-Tulsa / Public Administration / How to Apply
Applying for your degree or certificate in Public Administration at OU-Tulsa is the first step toward achieving your educational and career goals.
The real power of this program is the people who select into it. Smart, ambitious change agents who are seeking further skills to help improve their community. Within the classroom sits a group of people from different backgrounds and with varied opinions, but all with the same goal of making their neighborhood/community/world better.
Students walk away with hard skills that make them stronger in their jobs and infinitely more markable, but they also hone their ability for productive discourse among a network of peers.
In order to be considered for admission to the graduate program, students must first meet Graduate College admission requirements as described in the Graduate College Bulletin.
To seek admission, students must apply directly to the Office of Graduate Admissions by submitting the official online application form along with transcripts and the application fee.
Students whose native language is not English are required to submit their scores on the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). The TOEFL institutional code for the University of Oklahoma is 6879.
In addition, the Graduate Programs in Public Administration requires students to submit the following materials with your online application
The GRE is not a requirement for admission.
Applications are accepted for summer, fall and spring admission terms during the academic year. To ensure your application is reviewed for the term you wish to enroll, the admissions committee strongly recommend that all applicants submit a completed application well in advance of the intended enrollment semester. Typically, the committee evaluates applications on a monthly basis to ensure that a recommendation is made expeditiously. The admissions committee reserves the right to defer a recommended application for another semester based on enrollment capacity.
All MPA students are required to select one of four concentrations when applying to the program. These concentrations are: General, Nonprofit Management, Public Management, or Public Policy (refer to the current MPA Student Guide below for more information on concentrations).
The MPA program accepts applications on a rolling basis. To seek admission, students must apply directly to the Office of Graduate Admissions by submitting the official online application form, along with transcripts and the application fee. In addition, the Political Science Department requires the following to admit a candidate into the program:
The Department of Political Science offers several scholarship and award opportunities for our current graduate students.
Full-Time Enrollment
A graduate student must be enrolled in at least nine graduate credit hours during the fall and spring semesters to be considered full-time. An exception is made for graduate student receiving a graduate teaching or research assistantship. A graduate teaching or research assistant must hold a .50 FTE appointment and be enrolled in a minimum of five hours during the fall and spring semesters to be classified as a full-time student. Specific scholarships are the John Halvor Leek Memorial Scholarship, Walter F. Scheffer Scholarship and the Joyce and Edmond Peters Scholarship.
Apply
Students may apply for our department scholarhips through the Centeralized Academic Scholarship Hub (CASH). Faculty nominated awards are not processed through the CASH web portal. Deadline for All Scholarships is February 1st.
Applicants that have been accepted into the program must enroll online.
If you have any questions about enrollment, contact:
Krista Pettersen
Assistance Vice President for Academic Operations and Registrar
kpettersen@ou.edu
918.660.3474
There is no application deadline and students can be admitted anytime through our rolling admission.
