Admission Requirements
Graduate international applicants must meet the following application requirements and all program-specific requirements.
Application Requirements
All graduate students must hold a conferred bachelor’s degree or international equivalent from a college or university accredited by an appropriate institutional (formerly regional) accreditation organization by the first day of their graduate coursework. Admission will be denied if an evaluation determines that the background is not equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree with appropriate accreditation.
Course-by-Course Evaluation
Applicants who earned a degree, bachelor’s or higher, outside of the United States need to obtain a course-by-course evaluation of their degree credentials. If the evaluation determines that the background is not equivalent to a U.S. bachelor’s degree with appropriate accreditation, admission will be denied.
Applicants can request an evaluation from a member organization of one of the two national associations of credential evaluation services:
- National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) is an association of 19 credential evaluation services
- Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE) is an association of 10 credential evaluation services
Program Requirements
Applicants must meet one of the following program-specific requirements for consideration for admission into the MBA Hybrid Program for International Students:
- Completed bachelor's degree from a university accredited by the appropriate institutional (formerly regional) accreditation agency with minimum 2.75 GPA
- Completed bachelor's degree from a university accredited by the appropriate institutional (formerly regional) accreditation agency with a 2.50 - 2.74 GPA and 5 years of professional-level work experience.
Professional experience is defined as paid work experience that includes some combination of complex decision-making or analysis, management of people or projects, and at least moderate impact on the work unit or firm
All other prospective students are strongly encouraged to apply.
These applicants must submit a 1-page maximum letter of interest briefly indicating their reason(s) for obtaining a Longwood MBA along with their transcripts, resume, and optional GMAT score.
Resume including years of professional level work experience to be submitted at the time of application and subject to verification and approval by the MBA Director.
If the primary language of instruction where the applicant obtained a degree, bachelor or higher, is not English, then submission of official English language test scores is required. Accepted minimum scores include one of the following:
- TOEFL minimum score of 79/80
- IELTS minimum score of 6.5
- Duolingo minimum score of 115
- Cambridge English score of C2
Submission
International credential evaluations, English language test scores, and additional application documents may be sent to:
Email graduate@longwood.edu (preferred and quickest)
Mail Address:
Longwood Graduate Studies
201 High Street
Farmville, VA 23909
Communication
Graduate international applicants offered admission will be contacted by the International Student/Scholar Advisor who will communicate the additional requirements for international students, and who will issue the non-immigrant visa forms. Graduate students will not be permitted to begin coursework until all additional requirements are met (financial certification, health insurance, immunization records, etc.).
Financial Assistance
Limited financial assistance in the form of graduate assistantships may be available. Information on assistantship positions and policies can be found here.
In Person
International students wishing to be present in the US to complete a graduate degree are required to take a minimum of six (6) classroom based credits a semester.
Online
Qualified international students may complete an online graduate degree while remaining in their home countries.
