Long Beach,
CA,
United States
Type
Public
Degrees offered
Bachelor's Degree
MA in English in Long Beach United States | California State University, Long Beach
California State University, Long Beach
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Long Beach United States
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Qualification
Masters Degree
Languages
English
Delivery Mode
On-Campus
Tuition (2025)
USD
15,570
Attendance
Full-time
Full-time Duration
18 months
The English Department at CSULB boasts more than 40 faculty members, including tenure-track professors, tenured scholars, and emeritus faculty. Their expertise spans British and American literature across various historical periods, authors, and genres, employing multiple critical theories while investigating diverse aspects of English language studies. Our intimate graduate seminars foster rigorous examination of subjects, aiming to expand students' comprehension of literary traditions, cultural influences, rhetorical strategies, and artistic expressions in English.
The English MA program enhances students' familiarity with literary and rhetorical traditions while offering focused study opportunities in specialized areas of literature or rhetoric and composition. This graduate program cultivates advanced analytical skills, teaching students to contextualize texts within broader artistic, historical, and academic frameworks, perform autonomous research, and develop innovative arguments through both oral discourse and written work.
Destination of Study
Subjects of Study
Language Requirements
English
IELTS 7.0
Qualification Requirements
The MA program in English welcomes applicants who were English majors as undergraduates, as well as applicants from other majors. Students can apply after they have earned their BA or in their last semester of their BA. If students apply successfully during the last semester of their undergraduate career, they receive contingent admission, i.e., admission contingent on their completing their BA and maintaining their GPA.
Students with a baccalaureate degree in a major other than English from an accredited four-year institution may also apply to the MA program in English. These students must have an overall GPA of 3.0 or better.
There are three routes to admission for students with a baccalaureate degree in English from an accredited four-year institution, depending on their GPA in their upper-division English classes:
Students with a GPA of 3.3 or better in their upper-division English classes need only fill out the application (see below) and receive full admission.
Students with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.3 in their upper-division English classes have two options for applying:
Applicants with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.3 in their upper-division English classes may be admitted to the MA program if they take the GRE General Test and achieve a minimum score of 158 in Verbal Reasoning and 5.0 in Analytical Writing.
Applicants with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.3 in their upper-division English classes may apply to the MA program with a letter of recommendation from a faculty member in an English department at an accredited four-year institution and a writing sample of no more than 10 pages demonstrating the ability to write scholarly discourse in English studies.
International students are admitted to California State University, Long Beach through the CSULB Center for International Education. This Center evaluates foreign transcripts, determines eligibility for post-baccalaureate study, and ultimately admits international students. The international student for whom English is a second language must pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a minimum score of 600 (PBT), 250 (CBT), or 100 (iBT) before being admitted to the MA program in English.
Students with a baccalaureate degree in a major other than English from an accredited four-year institution may also apply to the MA program in English. These students must have an overall GPA of 3.0 or better.
There are three routes to admission for students with a baccalaureate degree in English from an accredited four-year institution, depending on their GPA in their upper-division English classes:
Students with a GPA of 3.3 or better in their upper-division English classes need only fill out the application (see below) and receive full admission.
Students with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.3 in their upper-division English classes have two options for applying:
Applicants with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.3 in their upper-division English classes may be admitted to the MA program if they take the GRE General Test and achieve a minimum score of 158 in Verbal Reasoning and 5.0 in Analytical Writing.
Applicants with a GPA between 3.0 and 3.3 in their upper-division English classes may apply to the MA program with a letter of recommendation from a faculty member in an English department at an accredited four-year institution and a writing sample of no more than 10 pages demonstrating the ability to write scholarly discourse in English studies.
International students are admitted to California State University, Long Beach through the CSULB Center for International Education. This Center evaluates foreign transcripts, determines eligibility for post-baccalaureate study, and ultimately admits international students. The international student for whom English is a second language must pass the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) with a minimum score of 600 (PBT), 250 (CBT), or 100 (iBT) before being admitted to the MA program in English.
Tuition
USD
15,570