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ESGP FAQs:
Advisor:
Applicants must have an advisor prior to be admitted into the ESGP.
The advisor must be an ESGP faculty member.
The faculty member must contact the ESGP office and confirm that
they have accepted the applicant as an advisee. Applicants may want
to inquire if the faculty member has funding for a Graduate Research
Associate (GRA) position.
Application Deadlines:
In order to be considered for a University fellowship, you will
need to have your application complete and in our office prior to
mid-January. Otherwise, applications should be complete and in our
office by mid-March.
Cost of Living:
The cost of living in the Columbus area is lower than many comparably
sized cities. You can compare cost of living at Money.com's
web site.
Difference between
Environmental Science & Environmental Engineering:
The Environmental Engineering program is within the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geodetic Science. Students
in that program are expected to have a background in engineering
and be strong in math. They take primarily engineering courses for
their graduate program. Environmental Science is an interdisciplinary
graduate program. Students in that program are expected to have
taken at least one course in calculus, physics, biology, and chemistry.
In their graduate program, they take a core course from each of
the following 3 areas: (1) engineering and physical science, (2)
biological sciences, (3) social science and policy. Then, the student
and his or her advisor design a program that supports the student's
research interests; the graduate courses may be taken from any of
about 25 different departments at Ohio State.
Faculty from 25 different departments belong to the Environmental
Science Graduate faculty also. Most members of the Environmental
Engineering faculty are also on the Environmental Science Graduate
faculty.
Do you accept students each
quarter?:
Generally, students are only accepted for Autumn Quarter. Our orientation
is held in autumn, and the ESGP financial support is only available
in Autumn Quarter, and usually the support is for the entire school
year.
GRE Scores:
The stated minimum GRE score for students to be accepted into the
ESGP is a sum of 1200 on the verbal and quantitative portions of
the GRE. All materials in your application will be evaluated by
the Graduate Studies Committee (GSC), and a decision will be made
based on the total package which you submit.
Housing Options:
You may apply apply for university housing by checking the appropriate
box on the front of your application form. Ohio State has a Housing
Office that handles applications for housing, and the information
you need to apply will be sent to you by their office if you check
the box. For students who would like to live off campus, we have
an Off-Campus Student Office.
There are all types and prices of apartments available in Columbus,
and generally the cost of an apartment is less than in other cities
of the same size. Many of our students are able to afford an apartment
without having a room mate to share expenses.
Non-ESGP Advisor or Committee
Member:
A student can have a non-ESGP faculty member on his or her Advisory
Committee but cannot have a non-ESGP faculty as an advisor. However,
if the student really wants a person who is not currently an ESGP
faculty member to be the advisor, that faculty member could send
a request to our Graduate Studies Committee to join the ESGP faculty.
Graduate Teaching Associate
(GTA) Positions/Financial Support:
The Environmental Science Graduate Program (ESGP) has agreements
with four different colleges to provide a specified number of teaching
assistants in the fields of biology, natural resources, chemistry,
and engineering. We review all applications and assign some of our
stronger students to the TA positions on a competitive basis. If
you are one of the students chosen for these teaching assistant
positions, all arrangements will be made for you through the ESGP
office. If you are admitted to the ESGP but do not receive an appointment
as a teaching assistant, you are, of course, free to try to find
employment on your own. We can help you identify those departments
that would be the most likely match with your background and perhaps
give you the name of a person to contact in that department. However,
we will not know which students have been selected for teaching
assistant positions until March or April.
Test of Spoken English:
Before an international student can be offered a TA position, they
must pass the Test of Spoken English. This test is offered both
at OSU and internationally by ETS. Information about this test can
be found at http://www.esl.ohio-state.edu/SEP/Testing.html
and http://www.esl.ohio-state.edu/
For more information, you can contact the staff at the Spoken English
Program at OSU at (614) 292-5005 or Sarwark.1@osu.edu.
University Fellowships:
For 2004, new deadlines have been introduced for University Fellowships:
If domestic applicants submit a complete application by the January
15 deadline, your file will automatically be evaluated by the Graduate
Studies Committee (GSC) for submission into the University Fellowship
competition. Certain criteria for University Fellowships have already
been determined by the Graduate School.
For international applicants, the due date is November 28, 2003.
The application file must be complete.
If you qualify, you will be nominated for a fellowship and your
file will be sent to the Graduate School for evaluation by the Fellowship
Committee. If you are awarded a University Fellowship, you will
be notified by the Graduate School.
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