Requirements for Admission

Students must hold a bachelor's degree with at least a 2.75 average on a 4.00 scale and must have completed at least 12 hours of undergraduate work in sociology or criminal justice, including courses in theory, research methods, and statistics. All students applying for admission to the graduate program are required to take the Graduate Record Examination. Please visit the Educational Testing Service web site for information about the GRE at www.ets.org.

Those who fail to meet one or more of the above requirements may be admitted as provisional students by the graduate program committee, which is composed of three faculty members from Old Dominion University and three faculty members from Norfolk State University.

Old Dominion University is the institution of formal record for this program.

International Students

Graduate international students on non-immigrant visas whose native language is not English or who have not lived in the U.S. ten years, must provide evidence of English language proficiency through one of the following:

1. Submission of a TOEFL score of 540 or successful completion of Old Dominion University's Graduate Bridge Program,
2. Possession of an American Bachelor's or Master's degree equivalent from an accredited institution located in a country where English is the native language,
3. GRE verbal score of 480.

For more information contact the International Admissions Office.

Deadlines

February 15 - Students applying for funding (Graduate Assistantship) and Fall admission
May 1 - Students applying for Fall admission
November 1 - Students applying for Spring admission

All students must submit all original application materials directly to Old Dominion University's Graduate Admissions Office. Students requesting funding (Graduate Assistantship) must submit the Application for Graduate Financial Assistance to the Graduate Program Director.

Request for Application for Admission

Graduate Admissions Application and Information is available at:

http://admissions.odu.edu/graduate.php

If you have any questions, feel free to contact the Applied Sociology Graduate Program Director:

socgpd@odu.edu
Old Dominion University
Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice
Norfolk, VA 23529
(757) 683-3809