Graduate Admissions

Applications for admission in the fall semester must be received by the preceding January 15. (Students are not admitted for the spring.) An application is complete only when all of the following materials have been received: the application form (including the applicant’s statement); transcripts; at least two letters of recommendation; and a sample of the applicant’s scholarly writing. GRE scores are required, with a total minimum of 1300 for combined verbal and quantitative scores. No subject test is required.

Foreign applicants for whom English is not their first language and who are not currently attending a university in the United States must take the TOEFL exam and score a minimum of 600 (paper exam) or 250 (computer-adapted exam).

An undergraduate major in theatre is not required for admission. Applicants who have had little academic work in theatre may, however, experience initial difficulty with graduate courses that presuppose undergraduate work in theatre studies and, while in the program, may have to do more than others to acquire the competence in theatre scholarship expected for the Ph.D.

Contact Info:

Haiping Yan
Director of Graduate Studies
Cornell University
Department of Theatre, Film & Dance
430 College Avenue
Ithaca, NY 14850-4696

Phone: 607-254-2700
Email: theatregradprogram@cornell.edu
Website: http://www.gradschool.cornell.edu

Application materials, such as transcripts, should be mailed to:

Donna Miller, GFA
430 College Ave.
Ithaca, NY 14850