DEADLINE: December 5th

A complete application consists of the following items:

• Statement of Purpose (two copies). Cover sheet at http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/admissions/forms
• Three Letters of Recommendation (in sealed envelopes with recommenders' signatures across the flaps). Cover sheet at http://www.graddiv.ucsb.edu/admissions/forms
• Field of Study Preference Sheet http://www.history.ucsb.edu/grads/preferences.htm
• One Writing Sample (two for Public History). Submit a sample that best demonstrates your writing and research abilities. Student typically submit a research paper they have done for a class.
• Two Official Transcripts from each school listed on your application
• Supplemental Information Form

ALL OF THE ABOVE MATERIALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED IN ONE PACKAGE TO THE HISTORY DEPARTMENT GRADUATE ADMISSIONS SECRETARY. See below for address.

• GRE Scores-Request that the Educational Testing Service submit your score to UCSB, institution code 4835. A Department code is not necessary.
• On-line Application
• Application Fee($60.00) Payable by Visa, Mastercard, check or money order
• TOEFL Scores (foreign students) -- submit to Graduate Division
• Submit Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). Available at http://www.fafsa.ed.gov

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Complete the on-line application. If paying by check or money order send to:

• Graduate Division
  University of California
  Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2070

All other materials should be correctly addressed and mailed directly to:

• Graduate Admissions Secretary
  Department of History
  University of California
  Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9410

It usually takes six weeks to process your application after we have received all the materials listed above.

Applicants will be required to have completed an undergraduate major in history or its equivalent (approximately 40 upper-division quarter units or approximately 24 upper-division semester units).

The GRE general test (verbal, quantitative and analytical) is required for graduate admission at UCSB. The UCSB History Department does not require the History Subject test. Please plan to take the GRE early (at least by October if you plan to apply for merit-based financial awards) since it takes six to eight weeks for the testing service to process your scores and send them to us.

For admission to the program the department would like to see a verbal score of 85% or above, an analytical score of 70% or above and a reasonable showing on the quantitative section. Admission is not guaranteed on the basis of meeting these score thresholds, neither do lower scores necessarily disqualify an applicant.

Those students who successfully compete for merit-based financial awards usually have higher scores.

The Graduate Division of the University requires applicants to have a minimum GPA of 3.0 for the junior and senior years. The average GPA of students admitted to the Graduate History Program is 3.55 for the junior and senior years Those students who successfully compete for merit-based awards usually have higher GPAs.

Please be specific on your statement of purpose. We need to know the fields in which you wish to work. If you are interested in working with a particular professor, please add that name to the statement as well. A major professor will be chosen for you based upon the information you provide in the Statement of Purpose and the Field of Study Preference Sheet. No student will be admitted unless the appropriate professor consents to mentor that student throughout his/her course of study at UCSB.

If you have any further questions please contact the History Graduate Admissions Assistant, Carolyn Isono-Grapard at (805) 893-2224 between l:00-5:00.