Graduate Admissions to the Department of Philosophy will open late summer for the academic year 2024-2025. Deadlines will be December 15, 2024, 10 PM Mountain Time for international applicants and January 3, 2025, 10 PM Mountain Time for domestic applicants. You may apply as instructed below.
Thank you for your interest in graduate study in the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado Boulder.Ìý You can learn more about each our three graduate programs — Ph.D., M.A., and Bachelor’s–Accelerated Master’s — by clicking on the links to the right.
We expect to enroll a full Ph.D. class (usually 5-6 students) and a full M.A. class (usually 4-8 students) in Fall 2025.Ìý All of our Ph.D. students receive guaranteed funding for at least five years, in the form of TA-ships or graduate-student Instructorships.Ìý And though most of our M.A. students do not receive guaranteed funding, we have in recent years been able to offer some funding each semester to the majority of our M.A. students in the form of TA-ships.
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We areÌýGRE test optionalÌýfor Fall 2025 admissions: we are not requiring GRE scores, but the Admissions Committee will see GRE scores if they are submitted. (Please note that international applicants may still be required to submit TOEFL/IELTS scores. See under "International Applicants", below.)
All applicants are considered for both the Ph.D. and M.A. programs. Ìý
Some resources and information you should know about if you are considering applying to graduate school in philosophy:
- : Comprehensive advice by Eric Schwitzgebel, philosophy professor at UC Riverside; from 2007 but still relevant and still very helpful;
- : An influential ranking of graduate programs in philosophy in the English-speaking world; see the speciality rankings in addition to the overall rankings;
- : One discussion of the question with links in the first paragraph to several other discussions.
The Philosophy Department supports the University’s commitment to encouraging diversity and equal educational and employment opportunities throughout the University community. These values are articulated in the University’sÌýnon-discrimination policy, by theÌýOffice of Institutional Equity and Compliance, and by theÌýOffice of Diversity, Equity and Community Engagement.Ìý We welcome applications from all students, but we alsoÌýhope to continue to attract and retain members of underrepresented groups in philosophy. To this end, we stronglyÌýencourage women and members of underrepresented groups to apply, and we are offering targeted application-fee waivers (see below for details).
If you have any questions about graduate study in the Philosophy Department at CU Boulder or about your specific circumstances, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies, Iskra Fileva, at iskra.fileva@colorado.edu.
For further information or questions about the admissions process, contact:
Karen Sites
Graduate Program Coordinator
CU Boulder Philosophy
Muenzinger D110, 232 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
karen.sites@colorado.edu
303-492-3172
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