Doctor of Philosophy in Greek and Latin

This program as a whole emphasizes the cultures that utilized the Greek and Latin languages from the classical (at the M.A. level) through the late antique and medieval (at the Ph.D. level) eras. Our faculty and students are deeply interested in ancient texts and ideas, and also in the reception and transformation of those modes of thought and expression in later periods.

M.A.-Ph.D. applicants should already hold a bachelor's degree before they would begin at Catholic University and plan to complete both the M.A. and the Ph.D. in this program.
Ph.D. applicants should already hold an M.A. in Classics or in Greek and Latin before they would begin at Catholic University.
The department will advise you if the faculty believe that your file would best be considered in a different degree category from the one you select on your application. (Changing from one application category to another is entirely possible, as long as you remain in close contact with us during the process.)

Required supplementary materials for application
An essay (Statement of Purpose) of approximately 1000-1500 words detailing your academic interests and goals, the sort of career you hope to pursue, and the reasons that have led you to apply to this particular program at Catholic University.
A writing sample of previous academic work. This should be a paper of at least seven pages, based on research in both primary and secondary sources and offering full references (footnotes or endnotes) and a bibliography. Please submit a clean, unmarked copy.

A list of the modern languages you have studied or know. You should indicate whether your competence is (e.g.) mainly oral/aural, only in reading, or in reading and writing, and approximately what level of competence you feel you have attained.

A list of all works, classical, patristic, or medieval, that you have read in Greek or in Latin. If only sections of a work were read in the original, please estimate the percentage of the whole, or provide an approximate page count.

GRE scores from the GRE General Test (there is no subject test for Classics). The Catholic University graduate application portal does ask for these of its own accord, but it is important that you know about this requirement ahead of time so that you can plan to take the test.
Minimally accepted TOEFL scores, when applying for graduate programs, are 550-paper, 213-computer, and 80 Internet. Students taking the TOEFL should have at least 20 out of 30 in each of the TOEFL subcategories. The minimally accepted graduate IELTS score is 6.5. Individual IELTS test module scores are also reviewed in addition to the overall IELTS score.