Application Package Requirements
To review you for admission, we must have the following materials:
- Graduate Application. An for admission is available Indiana University Graduate Application online.
- Transcripts. Transcripts for all course work taken and degrees completed.
- Personal statement. You must submit a 800-1000 word
statement of professional goals that explains your commitment to teaching
and/or research in information science. Your statement should attempt to answer
the following questions:
- Why do you seek the Ph.D. in Information Science?
- What areas of study in information science interest you, and why do you feel study in these areas will be of major importance to the field?
- Describe how your professional work has prepared you for study toward the Ph.D.
- Briefly describe one or two research problems in information science that you feel are significant, either from a theoretical or from an applied perspective.
- Three letters of recommendation.
- Graduate Record Examination (GRE). Scores on the Graduate Record Examination (GRE).
- TOEFL. A TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score above 600 (on the paper test), 250 (on the computer test), or 100 (on the new Fall 2005 test).
- Résumé.
- Chronology. Sample Chronology.
- Writing Sample. We require a single-authored writing sample.
- Campus Visit. We strongly encourage you to visit our school.
