Prospective ISME Graduate Students

International Applicants

• Application steps:
  • Follow the link in Step #4 of our application process website, create your account, and complete application form with personal and academic details
  • Submit and pay application fee
  • Go back to your application portal and upload at least your transcripts from all college level degrees e.g. diploma, bachelor's, master's, PhD as applicable. You should upload transcripts for each semester (including repeated courses, if any) as well as consolidated, as applicable.
  • Once you submit your transcripts, our department starts the review process and sends departmental recommendation to WSU Graduate School.
  • WSU Graduate School will review departmental recommendation and other documents, and send our final decision through email. Please add wsugradschool@wichita.edu as trusted sender. If you are using Gmail, it may end up in your "Promotions" folder. 
  • If you already uploaded all required documents (see below) and qualified for an admission, Graduate School will prepare your I-20 and send it to you via email address registered in the application portal.
    Required documents to issue an I-20 (for questions related to I-20 and/or visa, please contact wsugradschool@wichita.edu and/or iss@wichita.edu)

    • Transcripts
    • Copy of passport
    • Copy of English Proficiency Test Score - IELTS/TOEFL/DUOLINGO/PTE (Details on the Graduate English Proficiency page 
    • Certification of Financial Support (CFS)
      Information on CFS

      • Please note that the printed CFS form must be hand-signed by the person whose name is on the funding/bank document
      • If you were awarded the GSS (as of Fall 2024), you need to provide funding information for remaining ~$25,500 (compared to $30,800 for others). GSS value of ~$5,600 is based on an enrollment of a total of 18 credit hours (9 in Spring and 9 in Fall semester). Please list WSU and other sponsor (as applicable) to reflect your WSU funding on the CFS form.
      • If you are awarded GA, GRA, or GTA funding, you need to provide funding information for remaining amount (if any) communicated to you via email through the Graduate School.Certification of Financial Support (CFS). Please list WSU and other sponsor (as applicable) to reflect your WSU funding on the CFS form. 

       

    • Financial Support Documents
      Approved Sources of Funding

      Checking Account

      Savings Account

      Money Market Account

      Certificates of Deposit

      Current Account

      Fixed Term Deposits

      Loan (Bank Letter must list maximum amount of loan)

      Graduate Assistantship

    • Degree Certificate
      • Note: If you are yet to complete your degree (or completed it recently) and do not have your degree certificate, you can be admitted tentatively. Please inform the Graduate School accordingly by sending an email to wsugradschool@wichita.edu.
  • If you have not already submitted all the documents required for your admission (including official English proficiency scores meeting the minimum requirements, financial documents (e.g. bank statements/loan documents), and signed certificate of financial support), please do so as soon as possible. WSU cannot finalize your admission without these documents. Please note that our Graduate School issues I-20 forms as soon as possible. However, it may take 1-3 weeks for final review and issuance of your I-20 after all your documents are uploaded through the admission application portal (not through email) and receipt of final admission confirmation through the Graduate School. You can review the list of missing documents through your portal. Please wait for I-20 forms to be issued since requesting them to be expedited will not help it.
  • Pre-departure information (Though this link is intended for undergraduate students, it has useful information for graduate students too. You will also get an email with additional details for graduate students through Graduate School and/or WSU International Office.)
  • Whats App Information

    • We create a WhatsApp group for each semester. Once you are admitted, you will be informed about the details. If you didn't get one, please send an email to deepak.gupta@wichita.edu with your myWSU ID and request the WhatsApp link.Whats App Group
  • International Flights
    Flight Information

    • • If you have friends/relatives in or near places such as California, Colorado (Denver), Florida (e.g. Orlando and Miami), Illinois (Chicago),  Missouri or Kansas (Kansas City), New York, Texas (e.g. Dallas and Houston,) Washington (Seattle), or Washington-DC, you may be able to find a better/cheaper international flight to those locations and book a domestic flight after a day or two from your arrival date in the US. Similarly, you can explore other airports in your country that may have better options than your current location. You could use a travel agent in your home country and/or use websites such as Google flights, Kayak, and Skyscanner.
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• • Airport pick-up (from Wichita, Kansas airport - airport code: ICT) and temporary accommodation
    Airport Pick-up Information

    • • You may want to connect with respective international student organization. They may be able to help you with airport pick-up from Wichita, Kansas airport (airport code: ICT) or arrange temporary accommodation.
      • WSU's International Office can also help with airport pick-up from ICT
  • Once you have arrived at WSU, you must complete international student check-in and TB testing process (details are sent via email 1-2 months before start of the semester). You will then attend one of the advising meetings with ISME Graduate Coordinator to register in your classes and/or ask other questions related to your studies at WSU.
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