FAQs: Post-Admission

Official admission will come via the graduate admissions office. Until you receive the admission email from graduate admissions with your BearPass number (M#), you will be unable to create a new university user ID and be unable to register.

Yes, all students are assigned an advisor upon admission. You will be able to see your advisor listed in the Academic's tab in My Missouri State.

Please send an email to GraduateAdmissions@MissouriState.edu indicating you are withdrawing your application. We also recommend that you contact the graduate program director to inform him or her.

Graduate admissions does not transfer in undergraduate coursework. While you may have graduate coursework transferred in--no more than 30% of a graduate program with the permission of the graduate program director--only the classes that are transferred will appear after you have received permission and submitted the transfer request form.

Graduate admissions does not handle visa paperwork. You must direct your questions to international services.

Nothing. The reactivate graduate application is free. We are just updating your biographical information and notifying the university of your intent to return to finish the program you were previously enrolled in.

Readmission to your program after an absence of one year or more requires that you submit a new application through GradCAS to update biographical information and notify the university of your intent to return.

You should submit updated transcripts if you have taken any graduate coursework since you last attended.

Yes. Transcripts still on file can be reused though a new graduate application must be submitted. Test scores still on file can be used assuming they are not expired or assuming they are expired but the graduate program director chooses to accept them as expired. Program-specific items (i.e. letters of recommendation, statement of purpose, etc.) must be resubmitted to the new program.