Complete and submit your electronic application. You will be asked to provide a valid credit card (Discover, Mastercard, or Visa) for payment of the electronic application fee when you submit your application. Please use the information below for your application:

• Intended Program:
  • Area → Natural Sciences
  • Field of Study → Chemistry MS or Chemistry PhD
  • Campus → Storrs

• Upload a copy of your transcript/appropriate required documentation into the application system.
• AFTER submitting your application, please request an official transcript from each college/university you attended and have it mailed to:

University of Connecticut
Graduate School, Unit 1152
438 Whitney Road Extension
Storrs, CT 06269-1152

• Individual/yearly mark sheets (courses and grades, not hours) are required for students who complete their education in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Sri Lanka. This should also be uploaded into the online application system.
• If you completed a degree and that fact is not contained in your transcript, then we also need an official copy of your degree certificate or diploma. This should also be uploaded into the online application system.
• Failure to submit transcripts from all educational institutions, regardless of whether or not a degree was received, may be grounds for cancellation of admission.
• We do not consider 3 year bachelor’s degrees from India, Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka and certain other countries to be equivalent to a 4 year US bachelor’s degree.  While we do accept outside credential evaluations from NACES members, if the degree is a 3 year bachelor's degree from India, Canada, Australia, Sri Lanka or other certain other countries, we will not consider the degree to be equivalent with a 4 year US bachelor's degree.

GRE general and GRE subject scores are not required.

However, if you do choose to send your scores to UConn, GRE scores will only be accepted when sent electronically through ETS. GRE scores are only valid for five years (from original test date to submission of UConn application).

The GRE code for UConn Storrs is 3915.

• The TOEFL code for UConn Storrs is 3915
• If you use the results from the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), you must have a minimum overall score of 79.  You must also have a speak score of 22 or greater.
• If you submit results from the International English Language Testing System (IELTS), you must have an average overall score of at least 6.5. You must also have a Speaking score of 7.0 or greater.
• If you submit results from the Pearson Test of English (PTE), we require an overall score of 74.
• If you submit results from the Duolingo English test, we require a minimum score of at least 100.
• In all cases, your submitted test results must be no more than two years old.
• Information on qualifying for a TOEFL Waiver. (Please click on link to review policy.)

Upload a copy of your résumé or curriculum vitae through your electronic application.

• This document should tell your program's admissions committee all you would like to reveal in a personal interview.
• Include your reasons for undertaking graduate work, your ultimate plans, and how you happened to select your desired field. Details about your preparation, your strengths and weaknesses as a student, any academic honors, scholarships, or fellowships you have received, will all be helpful.
• The committee wants to know those things about you that cannot be expressed quantitatively.

• There is no specific Graduate School form for letters of recommendation.
• Recommenders should upload their letters online through the Graduate School's application.

The Chemistry Department admits students on a rolling admission basis. However, applications submitted on or before February 1st will receive priority during the admissions review cycle. We do not refuse applications that are not complete at the deadline, however, a significant delay in submitting application materials could affect your chances of being admitted.

If you wish to be considered for a UConn Graduate School Fellowship (Jorgensen Fellowship, Harriot Fellowship, or Crandall Fellowship), you must submit your application and have all materials uploaded in the Graduate School's application system by January 1st. 

No, the GRE general and GRE subject scores are not required.

The Chemistry Department does not offer a form for letters of recommendation. Please ask your recommenders to submit their letter through the online application recommendation system. Once you enter their name and email address into your application, they will receive an email link to upload their letter. The Chemistry Department does not accept paper recommendation letters.

Yes, you do not have to have an MS degree before enrolling in our Ph.D. program.

The Graduate School requires all applicants to have at least a cumulative GPA of 3.0 for the entire undergraduate record, or 3.0 GPA for the last two years, or excellent work in the entire final year (at least 3.5 GPA). The grade point average is computed on the basis of the following scale: A=4.0, B=3.0, C=2.0, D=1.0, F=0.0. Applicants from foreign colleges and universities must meet equivalent standards of eligibility and are expected to submit official transcripts showing all work completed. All advanced post-Baccalaureate course work is considered as well.

In order to qualify for admission to our graduate program, we require all applicants to have the following undergraduate courses:

• General chemistry - 2 semesters, plus lab
• Organic chemistry - 2 semesters plus 1 semester of lab
• Physical chemistry - 2 semesters plus lab (including all prerequisite requirements of Calculus 1 and 2, multi-variable calculus, and differential equations and 2-3 semesters of physics)
• Analytical chemistry - 1 semester (2 semesters plus lab recommended)
• Inorganic chemistry - 1 semester (2 semesters plus lab recommended)

Yes, you can earn an MS or Ph.D. degree part-time. However, we do not offer classes at night or on the weekends,. In addition, you are not eligible for an assistantship if you are a part-time student.

Yes, if this adviser will guarantee your financial support and he/she agrees to admit you directly into his/her research group. Otherwise, all graduate students are admitted under the advisement of the Graduate Admission Committee (specifically Dr. Angeles-Boza for Fall 2022) and are required to choose a major adviser by the end of November (for fall admits).

No, due to the University's privacy policy, we cannot provide information to you about someone else's application.