Ph.D. Admission Requirements

juillet
Thu, 07 Jul 2016 02:36:32 +0000

What PhD program do you know has a requirement for being in the top third of your class? I am curious, because class rank in college usually doesn’t mean as much and most graduate programs don’t care about it very much. I could see a program saying something like “Most of our successful applicants are near the top of their college classes,” but not a program rigidly requiring someone to have been in the top third of their class. Lots of PhD students get master’s degrees first, too, so their undergrad class rank would be less meaningful.