Admission Requirements to MS Engineering with Specialization in Water Engineering, for International Applicants

Note that an international applicant is anyone who would attend Cal Poly while in the U.S. under a non-immigrant visa.

Your Graduate Coordinator is Professor Charles Burt (Email: cburt@calpoly.edu). Please contact him with any additional questions about applying to this degree program.

The deadline for completing your application appears below. All parts of your application must have arrived at Cal Poly by the date shown. Note that you are strongly encouraged to submit your materials well before this nominal deadline.

Filing Due Dates for each Academic Quarter
To Start Your
Program in:
File Must be
Completed by:
Summer Applications not accepted
Fall April 1
Winter Aug. 1
Spring Dec. 1

Your completed application must include the following:

  1. A formal application made through CSU Mentor (on-line or using a downloaded application form)
  2. Official transcripts from ALL colleges previously attended (except Cal Poly), mailed to: Cal Poly, Admissions Office, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
  3. Scores from the General Test of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), sent directly to Cal Poly using institution code 4038. Current or recently graduate Cal Poly students may contact the Graduate Coordinator to request that this requirement be waived.
  4. Results of the TOEFL test taken within the past two years directed to institution code 4038. Go to Cal Poly's TOEFL website for additional TOEFL instructions.

These programs do not require recommendation letters. However, if you wish, you may include these in your file by mailing to: Graduate Coordinator -- MS Water Engineering, BioResource & Agricultural Engineering Dept., Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407.

For additional details regarding graduate program requirements, please view the Water Engineering Graduate Program webpage.

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Holly
Huynh
Electrical Engineering
2007
“My path to Cal Poly is a little unusual. I was born in a refugee camp in Thailand.

When I was two, we moved to Rosemead. Since I was so young, I don't remember the challenges my parents faced, but it was very tough. I've always been interested in electronics. I remember my father was trying to fix a microwave oven and I was amazed by all of the wires. Later in high school, I took an aptitude test and the result was 'electrical engineer.' That, lucky for me, sparked my interest in Cal Poly.