WWU Graduate School - Admissions

Admissions Information The Graduate School is now accepting online applications. Applicants must pay with a credit card (MasterCard or VISA) through the secure Bank of America server to submit their application online. Applications may be submitted online until midnight of the posted deadline date for the program and term selected. Paper (PDF) applications postmarked by the posted deadline date will be considered to have met the application deadline. If a program continues accepting applications on a space available basis beyond the posted deadline, applicants must use the PDF version of the Grad School Application. After a submitted application is reviewed for completeness, the Graduate School will provide a link to a web-based application status that can be accessed at the applicant's convenience. Click on photo at right to create a login and begin your Online Application.
Please note: All documents submitted in support of your application become the property of the University and will not be returned, copied for the applicant or a third party or forwarded (except to the department for admission and Graduate Assistantship selection purposes). The Graduate School Office at Western Washington University operates as the graduate admissions center for all academic departments offering graduate degree and graduate certification programs.
A file is eligible for transmittal to the appropriate academic department for admissions consideration once it is complete.
Some departments review applications as a group. In these cases, complete applications are held until the deadline passes, and then transmitted as a group. All applications completed by the deadline will be given full consideration. Most programs that admit all terms (Fall, Winter, Spring, and Summer) review applications as soon as they are complete, on a rolling basis.
Once initial processing of an application is complete, applicants are notified via email and encouraged to track their status online at the Graduate School's Application Web View.
Formal admission is offered to an applicant by the Graduate School via email upon receipt of the departmental recommendation. Click Here for a complete, printer-friendly list of our graduate offerings.