This is a complete list of materials required for admission and financial aid.  Questions should be addressed to Marilyn Dexter, Graduate Secretary, Department of Economics, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA  95616-8578.  Phone: (530) 752-0743;  Fax: (530) 754-6726; Email:  mldexter@ucdavis.edu

 A bachelor’s degree, preferably in economics, is required.  Students who did not major in economics should have taken at least intermediate microeconomics, intermediate macroeconomics, and two additional upper-division economics courses.  Because of the quantitative nature of the first-year theory sequence, prior completion of at least one year of calculus is essential, and a course in linear algebra is highly desirable.  Similarly, at least two courses in statistics, including an upper-division course, are very important as preparation for the econometrics courses.

 The following table shows data on the GRE scores of students admitted into the graduate program in the recent past:
 

	Verbal Percentile	Quantitative Percentile	Analytical Writing Percentile
mode	99	92	84
median	90	90	67
mean	83	88	69

The UC Davis Economics Department home page is located at:  http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu

You may also explore the campus’ home page at http://www.ucdavis.edu, or obtain information about graduate study at Davis at: http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/

For details about the PhD program in Economics, see the Graduate Handbook here: http://www.econ.ucdavis.edu/graduate/gradhdbk.cfm
 

Electronic Applications: All students are encouraged to apply on-line.  It is possible for all students to apply for admission electronically and to check the status of their electronic applications at http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/b4apply.htm   However, all materials other than the application form itself must still be submitted by mail to the Graduate Secretary.

As an alternative to the above, Students now in the United States can request an application by contacting Cathy Jurado of the Graduate Admissions Office at (530) 752-9297 or at cjjurado@ucdavis.edu.

For International Students unable to apply for admission online:

If you have no access to the web to either apply, you can request an application by contacting Cathy Jurado of the Graduate Admissions Office atcjjurado@ucdavis.edu  or at (530) 752-9297. 

The cost to have a paper application mailed to you outside the U.S. is $10.00 

To order a paper application to be sent to you outside the U.S., send a mailing label with your name and mailing address, plus an International Money Order or a check drawn on a US Bank, in the amount of $10.00 (US dollars only) payable to U.C. Regents, to Cathy Jurado, Graduate Admissions Office, University of California, Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA  95616.
 

Applications are accepted for fall quarter only.   Admission is only to the PhD program but students have the option of leaving with an MA degree after successfully completing the first year.  Please refer to the Graduate Handbook  for further details.

Deadline: Applications and all supporting materials must be received by December 15, 2004 to receive full consideration for admission and financial aid.  An admission decision will not be made until all materials have been received. Applications received after the deadline will be reviewed until the program becomes full, but will have lower priority for admission and financial aid.  No applications will be accepted after March 1, 2005

Send all of the following items to Graduate Secretary, Department of Economics, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA  95616-8578:
 

• Application for Admission.  (If the Application for Admission is filed electronically,  all the supporting materials listed below must still be submitted by mail to the Graduate Secretary.)

• Statement of Purpose. 

• $60 Application fee, by check or money order, made payable to “UC Regents” and sent to the Graduate Secretary.  (Credit card payments are not acceptable except in the case of online application.  Online applicants need to provide their credit card information before indicating that the application is complete).

• Official copies of all undergraduate and graduate transcripts.  Use transcript label from the admissions application to request that transcripts be sent by the Registrar’s office at each institution. 

• Three letters of recommendation. 

• Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores.  (The general test is required; the subject test is not required.). Both computer-based and paper-based GRE scores are acceptable at this department (either kind of score is acceptable).  If arranging for ETS to send the GRE scores, the codes are: instituition code 4834 and Dept. code 1801.

• International Students:  The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required if English is not your native language unless you have studied for at least one year at a school where English is the language of instruction.  If arranging for ETS to send the TOEFL scores, the codes are: Institution code 4834 and Dept. code 84.
  

All “non-resident” applicants (international applicants and domestic Non-California residents) will be automatically considered “as if” they had applied for a Nonresident Tuition Fellowship (NRTF), so there is no need to submit a fellowship application for this kind of fellowship.  NRTF’s provide “partial” funding towards the cost of the Nonresident Tuition fee.  NRTF’s  and Teaching Assistantships (TAships) are the most common kinds of financial aid that applicants are likely to receive.  However, they are offered to only a few of the best applicants each year (approximately 10 – 12),  and do not provide full financial aid.   

(Note: Domestic students, i.e. US citizens, immigrants and permanent residents, can generally establish California residency and avoid paying nonresident tuition after one year in California if appropriate steps are taken before the Fall quarter begins.)

Fellowships

The University offers several merit based fellowships and scholarships.  These are highly competitive and the Department must choose and nominate at most 4 applicants for each of these fellowships; the successful applicants are then chosen through a campuswide competition.  Historically, the Department has received fewer than one fellowship per year.  Consequently, only those applicants with a GPA greater than 3.7 and GRE scores exceeding the 85th percentile in both Verbal and Quantitative exams should apply.  For more information about these fellowships see:  http://gradstudies.ucdavis.edu/support/fellinst.html .

Deadline:  All application materials must be received by December 15, 2004.  (The GRE must be taken no later than November 2004.
 

For these UC Davis Fellowships (not NRTF Fellowships as described above) send to Graduate Secretary, Department of Economics, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA  95616-8578, the following materials:

•  Application for UC Davis Fellowship 

   

• Supplemental Application for Fellowships and Graduate Scholarships (required only for fellowships to support campus diversity). 

All applicants will be automatically considered “as if” they had applied for a teaching assistantship, so there is no need to submit a Teaching Assistantship application.  For best consideration, all required admission application materials must be received by Dec. 15, 2004. 

 Research Assistantships

 Research Assistantships are not offered to new students of this department, but are reserved for continuing graduate students.

Domestic students only may request information concerning graduate loans, grants, and work-study employment from Graduate Financial Aid Services, Dutton Hall, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA  95616-8596.  Phone: (530) 752-9246 from 10 a.m.-12 noon and 1-4 p.m.; email: gradfinaid@ucdavis.edu.  Applications are due in early March.  International students are not eligible for these types of aid.