About three months before you plan to apply, you should reach out to potential writers of letters of recommendation and ask if they would be willing to write you a letter for our program. Letter writers should be people who are familiar with your academic work, and who are capable of judging whether you would be likely to succeed in a graduate program in history. Usually, these letters are written by history faculty members with whom you have taken classes.
Once you have ideas of a person or people you may want to work with in our program, you should reach out to our program. It is customary to contact our graduate coordinator first, though you can also reach out to a potential supervisor directly if you have questions that you think they could best answer.
Review our History Department faculty. Any faculty member on the Kent campus can serve as your advisor. You will work with many faculty members during your time at Kent and you may choose to work with faculty in other departments at Kent State if you have an interdisciplinary focus, but your primary faculty advisor must be a History Department faculty member.
Decide why you want to attend graduate school, and what you hope to do with your degree. If you are thinking of pursuing an MA, do you hope to continue on to a PhD? Do you hope to work in a museum or archive, or teach at the High School level?
Our deadlines for admission are November 15 for Spring Admission, and Feb 1 for Fall Admission and for graduate funding.
EHHS grad Abby Reed, MA ’06, Hutchinson, KS, was recently named Central Christian School Secondary Principal and Director of Learning. Reed earned her Master of Science degree from EHHS in Sport and Recreation Management. She also holds an undergraduate degree from Sterling College in Health and Physical Education, with a K–12 teaching certificate. She has spent time as a Physical Education and Health instructor, coach, and Adjunct Instructor at Sterling College. --Photo courtesy Hutchpost.com ...
Your process should begin about a year before you plan to begin graduate school. First, look though our department’s admissions guidelines to be sure you meet requirements. To apply to our MA program, you must have 12 undergraduate hours in the discipline of History with at least a 3.3 GPA in these courses. This cannot include classes in adjacent fields such as Art History, or classes about history taught by faculty members in other disciplines (A History of Jazz class taught by a music school faculty member would not count, for instance).
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