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MLIS Application Process

We will be open for special session admission for Spring 2013! We will accept your application for special session no matter where you live.

We normally offer access to the MLIS degree via regular session and special session; however, San Jose State University will not be admitting any regular session students for Spring 2013.

Regular session is state-supported and state-subsidized and is for students who live within the catchment area of San José (zip codes: 936xx - 96xxx). The cap on the number accepted is related to the amount of money received from the State.

Special session is totally funded from student fees and is for students who live outside the catchment area of San José (i.e., Southern California and the rest of the United States and the world.)

Special session fees are highly competitive, currently $474 per unit (the MLIS degree is 43 units) but subject to review and change. Special session students are not eligible for any kind of state financial aid, but may be eligible for federal funding aid and/or scholarships. For financial aid questions, please contact Carol Garcia, Phone: 408-924-6081). See scholarship information.

Both regular session and special session classes have the same instructors, the same assignments, the same content, the same timelines, and are delivered totally online. SLIS no longer offers any face-to-face classes.

If you are a CSU employee and interested in a fee waiver, please follow the four steps below:

• Step 1: Contact your campus fee waiver coordinator to determine if you are eligible for a CSU tuition fee waiver.
• Step 2: Apply as a regular session student [see application deadlines].
• Step 3: When you complete the online application state that you will pay the application fee by check/money order [do not pay by credit card]. If CSU tuition fee waiver eligible, you may receive an application fee waiver once verified.
• Step 4: Email Jessica Hernandez and Geeta Patel in Graduate Admissions & Program Evaluations to indicate that you have applied as a regular session MLIS student, and you are CSU tuition fee eligible. In the email, please include your name, CSU campus, and SJSU id number/application number.

Application deadlines

See Application Deadlines for more information about our application period dates.

Application Procedures

IMPORTANT: The notice of admission from the School of Library and Information Science will only come via email. Make sure you set your spam filter to accept all correspondences from the .sjsu.edu domain.

Please be sure to complete all 3 steps.

1. Complete the University's online graduate application. Note: Non-US citizens do not use the "International Admissions Application;" they use the normal "Graduate Admissions Application." Before completing the online CSU Graduate Application, read the following– and then apply on www.csumentor.edu/ .

   • For assistance with the CSU Graduate Application, an online tutorial is available.
   • Apply to "San José State University Graduate."
   • The Major/Program objective is "Library & Information Science (either 'MLIS Special Session' or 'MLIS Regular Session' – see note above."
   • The degree objective is "Other Masters."
   • Non-US citizens: On the CSUmentor's "Personal Information" application page where it asks for "US state/territory", use the dropdown menu to click "Foreign country"; where it asks for "Citizenship status", use the dropdown menu to click "Other visa"; where it asks for "visa status", put in "U"; and where it asks for the "date issued", type in "01/01/2000".
   • A GRE, work experience, academic references, academic honors, and a statement of purpose are not necessary. In the boxes provided on the form, leave these boxes blank. For the "Statement of Purpose" box, only type in the words "not applicable".
   • When you click the "Submit" button, the application is electronically submitted to the SJSU Office of Graduate Admissions and Program Evaluation (GAPE). Be sure to print out the "Confirmation" web page for future reference.

2. Pay the CSU Graduate Application fee of $55. We strongly encourage payment by credit or debit card. Credit card payments may be made when completing the CSU Mentor online application. If paying by check, mail the check to:

   Attn: Jessica
   San José State University
   Graduate Admissions & Program Evaluation
   One Washington Square
   San José, CA 95192-0017 (Use of any other zip code will cause misdirection and/or loss of transcripts)
   

3. Obtain one sealed transcript for your Bachelor's degree and for each school you attended after you received your Bachelor's degree. Send transcripts to:

   Graduate Admissions & Program Evaluation
   San José State University
   One Washington Square
   San José, CA 95192-0017 (Use of any other zip code will cause misdirection and/or loss of transcripts)

   If you attended SJSU: DO NOT send SJSU transcript.

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Evaluating Your Application

After Graduate Admissions and Evaluations has received all of your required documents, they will evaluate your application. This may take from 6 to 8 weeks. If there are any problems, they will send you a message on your Student Center web page at MySJSU.

Tracking Your Application

When you submit your CSU Mentor application online, you will receive instructions on how to retrieve your SJSU ID and password and activate your student self-service MySJSU account. Soon afterwards, you will receive a User ID and password in an e-mail. When you receive this information, you will be able to log on to MySJSU (my.sjsu.edu/) and check the status of your application online. Your application status is located at the bottom of your Student Center web page.

Notification of Admission

If you are offered admission to the University, you will receive two notices of admission; first an email and a letter from Graduate Admissions & Evaluations and then an email from our School of Library and Information Science. The School of Library and Information Science email, signed by our Director Sandra Hirsh, will give academic advisor contact data and other pertinent information which you will need before you begin your first semester. IMPORTANT: The notice of admission from the School of Library and Information Science will only come via e–mail. Make sure you set your spam filter beforehand to accept all correspondences from the .sjsu.edu domain.

Deferred Enrollment

New Students Cannot Defer Enrollment. Applicants admitted into SLIS cannot defer class enrollment. Graduate Admissions & Evaluations requires new students to register for at least one credit unit for the semester indicated on the application. Students cannot take classes in any semester before the semester they have been accepted into. New students who do not enroll but wish to return for a later semester must reapply.

Reapplying for Admission

If you are reapplying for admission, please submit:

1. A CSU Graduate Application (online)

2. A check for $55.00 made out to SJSU. Send to:

   Attn: Jessica
   San José State University
   Graduate Admissions & Program Evaluation
   One Washington Square
   San José, CA 95192-0017 (Use of any other zip code will cause misdirection and/or loss of transcripts)
   

3. Transcripts. Transcripts are held for one year. If you are still within this one-year period but you have taken more classes since you sent in your original transcripts, you need to send in transcripts that show the new classes. If you have not applied for one or more years, you need to send in all your transcripts again.

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