Graduate School Application

• School of Business graduate programs
• School of Education and Leadership graduate programs
• Creative Writing master’s programs
• Legal Studies graduate programs

Write one to two pages (typed, double-spaced) describing your career goals and how a master’s or doctoral degree at Hamline will help you reach them. Please review your application for more details and additional questions that may need to be answered for your specific program.

Your resume should detail the following:

• Personal data
• Educational background information
• A chronological list of employers, positions held, and job responsibilities
• Professional affiliations, honors bestowed, and publications (if applicable)
• List of honors, awards and/or extracurricular activities of pertinent nature (if applicable)
• Organizations in which you have been active (if applicable)
• Leadership positions you have held (if applicable)
• Honors and/or awards you have received, or any other qualifications that you would like us to know about
• Briefly describe any independent study projects, writing, or research in which you have engaged; include titles of published works (if applicable)

You will need to order your transcripts from the granting college or university.  Most requests can be completed online. You need to start this process simultaneously with your application, so take this first step and get your transcripts ordered now.

• Official electronic copies of your transcript should be emailed to us at gradprog@hamline.edu. 
• Official paper copies should be sent directly from the institution to Graduate Admission at the address below, or you can submit them to us as long as they are provided in a sealed, signed envelope. 

Recommendation forms, completed by your references/recommenders, are required as part of your application.

• Your first step is to reach out to your references and let them know you're applying to Hamline and that they will get an email from Hamline with the form. 
• Then, as part of the application process, you'll be asked to provide information about your references, including their name, company/organization, job title, relationship to you, and email address. 
• Once you submit your application, we will email your references with a recommendation form that they submit back to us directly. 

Some programs may require additional materials. For example, the creative writing master’s programs ask for a critical essay and creative writing sample.