Matriculation Requirements

Applicants must meet all of the following requirements to matriculate.

1. You have earned a four-year bachelor's degree from an accredited American or Japanese college or university (or you have earned an equivalent four-year degree from an accredited institution in another country). You should submit official transcripts, in English, from every college and university you have attended. Those documents must be mailed directly from the registrar's office of each of your previous universities to the Graduate College of Education Office at TUJ.
2. You have earned a strong academic average in your university studies. Either you have earned a "B" average in an undergraduate degree program in English, English Education, or Linguistics, or you have taken two or three Temple graduate TESOL courses and earned a 3.25 GPA or better.
3. You are currently teaching English or another language, or you intend to make a career of such teaching.
4. You have submitted scores from the necessary standardized tests. Native speakers of English must submit a GRE (The Graduation Record Examination) or MAT (The Miller Analogies Test) score that is no more than five years old. Non-native speakers of English must submit a TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language) score than is no more than two years old.
   
   Please refer to the "Test Requirements" section for more information.
5. You have submitted a letter of recommendation from a member of the graduate faculty at TUJ, or letters of recommendation from three persons outside of Temple University.
6. You have submitted the application form, including a personal statement of your professional plans and goals.
7. You have paid thematriculation fee.

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