MS Marketing FAQ

Career, Internship and Job Placement - MS Marketing FAQ

The JSOM Career Management Center (CMC) helps international students in various areas, including résumé preparation, mock interviews, English improvement, job fairs, career counseling and more. Please visit the CMC site for more information.

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Marketing is an essential part of almost any company. Marketing graduates can pursue careers in such areas as advertising, brand management, business development, digital marketing, market research, marketing analytics, marketing management or product management. Students can specialize in industry-specific careers in business-to- business operations, consumer packaged goods companies, e-commerce, international marketing, pharmaceutical marketing, retailing, sports marketing, technology marketing, marketing consulting and many more.

Financial Aid and Scholarship - MS Marketing FAQ

Yes. The most common problem is that students delay applying and/or do not submit all the required documentation on a timely basis. The Office of Financial Aid states that other common problems are:

  1. Not checking your UTD email for information or document requests. The University will only send email to your UTD email address. Please set up your UTD email account to forward mail to your personal email or check your UTD email!
  2. 2. You are assigned a contact at the Office of Financial Aid office based on your last name. However, it is best to use the general email address and copy your contact to ensure a prompt reply. The general email address is financial-aid@utdallas.edu. See a list of contacts.

It is best to mail in your package rather than to fax or email/scan it.

Mail it to:

Office of Financial Aid, ROC 22

800 West Campbell Road

Richardson, TX 75080-3021

While international graduate students can receive merit-based scholarships, they are not eligible for need-based grants through UT Dallas. International students can apply for loans, but they need a credit-worthy co-signer who is a U.S. citizen or permanent resident who resides in the United States. UT Dallas does not have its own loan program. If you would like to pursue a private education loan, you will need to select a lender and apply directly. While UT Dallas may be asked by the lender to confirm you are a student, the University is not otherwise involved in the process and cannot recommend any lender. Additional information can be found on the Office of Financial Aid’s Private Education Loans page.

It depends on the type of scholarship. If it says in the terms and conditions that the scholarship is not “stackable,” then you may not apply for another scholarship that counts toward in-state tuition. However, there are many third-party scholarships you may apply for in addition to UT Dallas scholarships.

Given that these policies are frequently updated, please refer to the Graduate Scholarships page for more details.

You can apply for a scholarship once you have submitted your application to The University of Texas at Dallas. However, your application won’t be processed until you are actually admitted.

International Students - MS Marketing FAQ

UT Dallas has a student services department that helps international students with such issues. Please visit the International Student Services webpages.

While there may be some internship opportunities for international students, there are fewer opportunities than for domestic students. In addition, there are fewer opportunities for visa sponsorship into full-time jobs for international students.

We have seen sponsorship occur more frequently in the following situations:

  • The student is pursuing an analytics track.
  • The student is pursuing the Product Management Track and earned an undergraduate degree in engineering or the sciences.
  • In both cases, a high degree of written and oral proficiency is required, and usually, the student’s TOEFL score needs to be above a 95. Marketing is about writing and speaking with proficiency.

Approximately 60% of our MS in Marketing students are international students. Many of these students have one to several years of experience in different areas of marketing, such as advertising, marketing analytics or business development. Because MS MKT is now a STEM program, eligible F-1 nonimmigrant students with STEM degrees may apply for a 24-month STEM OPT extension to their original 12-month OPT for a potential total of 36 months of OPT. For more information, please go to the International Students and Scholars Office website.

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These can be obtained from your local U.S. embassy or consulate. Consult UTD’s International Student Services for helpful tips and links.

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For all international applicants, an official English proficiency exam score, no more than two years old from the date of application, from one of three testing services is required. We accept the TOEFL (minimum 80 IBT), IELTS (minimum 6.5), and the Pearson Test of English (PTE, minimum 67). Our institutional TOEFL code is 6897.

Our GRE school code is R6897.

You have met the English proficiency requirement, and do not need to submit an English proficiency exam for admission, if:

No. International applicants who have completed an undergraduate or graduate degree from a college or university in the United States are waived from the English proficiency requirement.

The applicant’s cumulative GPA will be used as a part of the admission committee’s review for competitiveness for admission. Currently, the average admitted GPA is a 3.3.

Local applicants must submit official transcripts from all U.S. based colleges and universities attended, including any graduate program in which the applicant was enrolled for admission. These transcripts must be certified, signed or stamped official by the university’s Registrar Office.

International applicants and U.S. citizen and permanent resident applicants with an international degree must submit an official attested photocopy of academic documents such as a transcript, diploma, mark sheets, provisional degree certificate and or your final degree certificate, in a school sealed envelope with the school seal stamped on the back side of the envelope.

Overall, applicants must provide the following documents:

  • Official transcripts from all colleges/universities attended
  • Degree certificate if applicable (international students)
  • GMAT or GRE and TOEFL or IELTS scores from testing centers
  • One letter of recommendation (no specific format)
  • Personal objectives statement
  • Resume

Note: Resume, recommendation letters and personal objective statement, if not electronically submitted with your application or mailed in with your transcripts, please email your letters of recommendation, resume, and/or personal statement to JSOMGRAdvising@utdallas.edu. Please include your application ID with your email.

Yes, you may, once admitted and prior to enrollment you would need to provide official documents.

Fall Deadline: May 1
Spring Deadline: October 1
Summer Deadline: March 1

Late applications will be accepted up to the day prior to classes beginning https://www.utdallas.edu/academiccalendar/.

Yes, for available scholarships at Jindal school of management, please visit the scholarship page: http://jindal.utdallas.edu/student-resources/scholarships/

UT Dallas also provides scholarships. Please visit UT Dallas office of financial aid for more information: https://finaid.utdallas.edu/scholarships/

A competitive GMAT or GRE score, no more than five years old by date of application is required from all applicants, except for:

  • Candidates who have a doctoral degree, such as a PhD, MD or Juris Doctor.
  • High-achieving candidates may request a GMAT/GRE waiver if they have obtained*: T
  • heir undergraduate or graduate degree from UT Dallas (regardless of their major) and achieved a GPA at or above a 3.500. (GPA only includes UTD grades.)
  • Their undergraduate or graduate degree from a university with an AACSB-accredited business school (regardless of their degree’s area of focus) and achieved a GPA at or above a 3.600.
  • Their academic certificate from JSOM, in a related field, and achieved a GPA at or above 3.500.
  • They graduated Summa Cum Laude from a U.S.-based ABET-accredited school
  • They graduated in the top 20 percent of their graduating class from an EQUIS school. (Official verification required.)*

* Once application is submitted, if applicant meets the GMAT/GRE criteria outlined above, they must email JSOMGRAdvising@utdallas.edu to request review without submitting a GMAT/GRE.

You may contact the JSOM office of scholarships via:
For undergraduate: jsom-ug-scholarship@utdallas.edu
For graduate scholarship: jsom-grad-scholarship@utdallas.edu

UT Dallas offers two different tuition plans. The variable tuition rate plan is based on a traditional plan that only locks tuition rates in for one academic year at a time. The rates on the variable tuition plan are subject to change each academic year.

The guaranteed tuition plan is a plan that locks tuition rates in for four consecutive years and protects the student against increases during those four years. This plan is designed to aid students and families in the budget and planning of college expenses.

All new incoming students will be automatically placed into the variable tuition rate plan, but will have the option to lock in their tuition rates for four consecutive years with the guaranteed tuition plan.

To make your tuition plan choice, please follow these instructions on this page https://www.utdallas.edu/finance/bursar/tuition/

Knowledge of calculus is required for the following graduate programs: MS in Business Analytics, MS in Energy Management, MS in Finance, MS in Management Science and MS in Supply Chain Management. Applicants who have not satisfied this requirement may take OPRE 6303 (Quantitative Foundations of Business).

You may contact the International Student Services for questions related to I20, international orientations and F-1 visa or other visa types.

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