Master's vs. Bachelor's Applying for PhD

cosmicfish
Sun, 25 Aug 2013 00:42:45 +0000

In several programs that I am familiar with (in the Humanities, given), there were separate applications for post-Bachelor’s and post-Master’s Ph.D. programs.

Departments may consider the groups separately during the first round of admissions (the down-select), but the second round (the up-select) is done by individual professors and usually addresses the entire group of “best-qualified” candidates as a single group.

Of course, there are hundreds of US universities with graduate schools, and thousands of individual programs, so there is no single answer, only trends.