Agricultural Systems Technology Graduate Program Admission


To be admitted into the program you will need to do the following (all of this information, along with forms can be found at www.usu.edu/graduateschool). The School of Graduate Studies is currently accepting applications for admission for Fall 2006 and beyond.

  • Three letters of recommendation are required; each must address the applicant's potential for success in the proposed graduate degree program. If the applicant has been enrolled in school during the last five years, at least two of the letters must come from persons who are familiar with, and can make an authoritative assessment of, the applicant's recent academic progress and success.

    NOTE: RECOMMENDER NAMES AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES ARE REQUIRED ON THE ONLINE APPLICATION. Once you have completed the online application with the fee paid, the School of Graduate Studies will notify your recommenders to send their letters. The recommenders will then go to our online recommendation letter and submit the letter electronically.

    All materials submitted as part of the application credentials become the property of the School of Graduate Studies and will not be copied or returned to the student.

  • An official transcript must be ordered from each previously attended college and/or university (except USU) and must be sent directly from each institution to the USU School of Graduate Studies. Transcripts must be submitted for all courses above the high-school level and all prior degrees. Transcripts accumulated on one record are not acceptable. Transcripts submitted as application credentials become the property of the School of Graduate Studies and will not be copied for or returned to the applicant. A bachelor's degree from an accredited college, with a minimum 3.0 GPA for the last 90 quarter or 60 semester credits earned, is required.

  • Admissions Test: An admission test is required of all applicants, with a score at or above the 40th percentile the minimum acceptable. Our department requires either the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) general test (minimum of 40th percentile on the verbal test and on the quantitative test) or the Miller Analogies Test (MAT) for master's degree applications. Registration forms for the GRE are available at the School of Graduate Studies, by calling USU Testing Services at (435) 797-1004, or by going to http://www.ets.org. Contact USU Testing Services for information about the MAT. Applicants should request that their scores be sent directly to Utah State University School of Graduate Studies. The scores must be received before an application is considered complete. The institutional code that we were assigned by the Educational Testing Services is 4857.

  • Admissions Application: Complete the admissions application and pay the $55.00 application fee. The online application is at https://ssb.banner.usu.edu:7781/pls/zprod/bwskalog.P_DispLoginNon. You will have to go to "First Time Users Account Creation" to get a login ID.