Quick Facts

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• 22 Graduate Faculty
• 83 Students, all with individual plans of study
• About 400 applications completed each year of which 20 are admitted. There are no hard and fast rules regarding the students Annenberg accepts into our program, but we can say that most successful applicants present the following profile:
  • A GRE verbal and quantitative score over 500 with a writing score over 4.5
  • The GPA is considered as well as the course load and relative degree of course difficulty
    • Average undergraduate GPA is 3.76
  • TOEFL or IELTS score that demonstrates English competence (for non-native English speaking candidates only)
    • Average TOEFL of admitted candidates is 115
• All of our Ph.D. program students receive four years of financial support including nine-month Research or Teaching Fellowship stipend, medical coverage, and a waiver of University tuition. Summer Fellowships are also available to all research and teaching fellows. In the fifth year, at the dissertation stage all students are eligible for a twelve month Dissertation Research Fellowship to help complete the degree.
• Average time to degree is 5.7 years

Of the 58 graduates who chose an academic career, 12 are tenured (including at places such as the University of Arizona, Central European University (Hungary), City University of New York, Daegu University (Korea), George Washington University, The University of Haifa (Israel), Indiana University, University of Missouri, Rutgers University, and Villanova University. Another 35 graduates are currently in tenure track positions at places such as American University (Washington, D.C.), the University of Cardiff (Wales), Columbia University, Cornell University, Emory University, Fairfield University, George Mason University, Georgetown University, Hebrew University (Israel), Johns Hopkins University, Kadir Has University (Turkey), University of Massachusetts, The University of Minnesota, University of the Philippines, Saint Louis University, University of Texas, University of Toronto, and the State University of New York at Albany. Of the remaining 11 students on an academic track, four are in non-tenure track teaching positions, four are in non-tenure track research positions, two hold post doctoral fellowships, one is in academic administration, and one is unknown.