Standardized Graduate Examination Requirements

Each applicant to a graduate degree/certificate program must take the appropriate Graduate Standardized Examination. Applicants to the MBA program must take the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT). Applicants to the Masters Programs in Industrial Engineering & Systems Management, Computer and Information Science, Law, Political Science, and Public Health must take the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).

Applicants who have met all General and Program-Specific Requirements, including the English Language Proficiency Requirement, should register to take the GMAT/GRE. Applicants are required to pay for their examination fees and arrange for the GRE/GMAT examination results to arrive in Oakland by the second Friday in December, before the start of the Degree Program.

The responsibility for the timely payment of the examination fee, the proper registration for the examination, and the timely receipt of the results, is to be born by the student. Only test scores of examinations taken within the past three years of the application deadline will be considered for admission. In all cases, applicants must request from the respective testing institution that their scores be reported directly to the University's U.S. office in Oakland, California.