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Admissions Requirements

Statement of purpose
Curriculum vitae
Transcripts
Three Letters of Recommendation

Any additional information that will strengthen the application.

 

Standardized Tests

Required English Proficiency Tests for International Students (please review the Graduate College's International Admission Requirements by Country: https://grad.arizona.edu/tools/intladmissionsreqs/)

Minimum TOEFL: 79 (internet based) 
Minimum IELTS: Composite of 7 (no subject lower than 6)

For funding as a Teaching Assistant:
Minimum TOEFL speaking score: 24   
Minimum total IELTS score: 7.5

Please see the Graduate College's policy about other acceptable English Proficiency credentials:  https://grad.arizona.edu/admissions/requirements/international-applicants#english-proficiency

GREs are not required, but potential advisors may recommend.

 

Funding Opportunities

Teaching and Research Assistantships
Graduate College Fellowship
UA and CONACyT Fellowship for Mexican Doctoral Students (https://grad.arizona.edu/funding/opportunities/ua-and-conacyt-fellowship-mexican-doctoral-students)
Please also see Graduate College website on Financial Resources (https://grad.arizona.edu/funding)

 

Admissions Deadlines

Domestic Applicants:

• Fall: December 1

International Applicants:

• Fall: December 1

 

International Conditional Admission

International applicants will not be considered for conditional admission by this program.

Other Information

The GRE Institution Code for The University of Arizona is 4832

NRC Taxon(a) for this program: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Completion Requirements

Minimum Credit Units

63 

Core Coursework Requirements

Minimum credits for Major: 36
Minimum credits for Minor: 9
Minimum credits for dissertation: 18

First semester: Two internships/rotations, Internship Presentation and Planning, and Fundamentals in Ecology
ECOL 610A - Research in Ecology and Evolution, 1 unit, minimum grade required: C
ECOL 610B - Research in Ecology and Evolution, 1 unit, minmum grade required: C
ECOL 610C - Internship Presentation and Planning, 1 unit, minimum grade required: C
ECOL 600B - Fundamentals of Ecology, 3 units, minimum grade required: C

Second semester: A third internship, a second term of Internship course, and Fundamentals of Evolution
ECOL 610A - Research in Ecology and Evolution, 1 unit, minimum grade required: C
ECOL 610C - Internship Presentation and Planning, 1 unit, minimum grade required: C
ECOL 600A - Fundamentals of Evolution, 3 units, minimum grade required: C

Four semesters of the departmental seminar, preferrably completed during the first 4 semesters
ECOL 596B - Population Biology, 1 unit (repeated 4 times), minimum grade required: C 

18 units of Dissertation
ECOL 920 - Dissertation, 1-9 units allowed per semester

 

Elective Coursework

ECOL 506R - Conservation Biology, 3 units
ECOL 526 - Population Genetics, 3 units
ECOL 553 - Functional and Evolutionary Genomics, 4 units
ECOL 572 - Systematic Botany, 4 units
ECOL 573 - Topics in Behavioral Ecology, 3 units
ECOL 575 - Freshwater and Marine Algae, 4 units
ECOL 578 - Global Change, 3 units
ECOL 580 - Mathematical Models in Biology, 3 units
ECOL 582 - Ichthyology, 4 units
ECOL 583 - Herpetology, 4 units
ECOL 584 - Ornithology, 4 units
ECOL 585 - Mammalogy, 4 units
ECOL 586 - Biological Scaling, 2-3 units
ECOl 587R/587L - Animal Behavior Lecture/Lab, 3 units/1 unit
ECOL 596A - Evolutionary Ecology, 2 units
ECOL 596B - Population Biology, 1 unit
ECOL 596I - Biology of Introduced and Invasive Species, 2 units
ECOL 596J - Plant Population Ecology, 2-3 units
ECOL 596W - Special Topics in Ecology and Evolution A, 1-3 units
ECOL 596X - Special Topics in Ecology and Evolution B, 1-3 units
ECOL 900 - Research, 1-8 units

Additional coures within EEB are eligible to meet the coursework requirement upon approval of the major faculty advisor and the Director of Graduate Studies.  Cross-listed courses and transfer credits will be considered on a case-by-case basis. 

 

Additional Requirements

• First year students must select a Guidance Committee comprised of at least 3 members* (2 members must be from EEB).
• During the first year, students meet with the Guidance Committee to complete the Qualifying Exam and Provisional Plan of Study.
• Two of the three internship rotations required during the first year must be with EEB faculty.
• Doctoral Committee is selected during the second year and must comprise of at least 4 faculty members* - 3 for the major and 1 for the minor.  At least two for the major must be core EEB faculty.
• Beginning in the second year, students must meet with their Dissertation Committee.
• Beginning in the second year, students must present a research seminar in the departmental noon seminar.
• Serve as a half-time (0.5 FTE) Graduate Teaching Assistant for at least two semester.

* Faculty members must be tenure / tenure-track / tenure-equivalent faculty.

 

Minor Requirements for Doctoral Students in this Program

Doctoral students are required to have a minor.  Students can minor in EEB or any other minor of their choice.  Students are subjected to the minor requirements set by the minor department.  

 

 

Student Handbook

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.

 

Program StatisticsInformation about these numbers

Program-level Information
Application Acceptance Rate	18%
Med. Time-to-degree (years)	6.00
Department-level Information
Enrollment Percent Male	54.05%
Enrollment Percent Female	45.95%
Enrollment Percent International	29.73%
Enrollment Percent URM	10.81%

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