Applying to the Graduate Certificate in Business Data Mining Program:

To be considered for admission to the program, a prospective student must meet one of the following:

• Students must have completed a bachelor's degree in Business or Engineering or Computer Science; meet the status requirements as a special student; and have the equivalent of at least a 3.0/4.0 undergraduate GPA.
• Other students may apply for admission to the Certificate program; such applications will be reviewed by the Program Director, who may recommend admission to the Graduate College.

Admission Deadlines

Admission Requirements
Apply for admission to the OSU Graduate College through the online application. On the fifth or 'Degree' page, select Certificate Programs from the drop down menu of degrees and then click View options in the right margin. On the next page, select Business Data Mining Certificate. Submitting your application for the OSU graduate college automatically notifies the Program Director of the Graduate Certificate in Business Data Mining of your intentions.
The Distance Learning Office in the Spears School of Business will assist all distance learning students pursuing the certificate. Please visit http://spears.okstate.edu/cepd/dl/graduate-programs-section/index.php for details on tuition, course registration, proctor requirements, books and other information.

Special Student Admission
Applicants who do not have immediate plans to become a degree candidate but want to take graduate courses for graduate certificates, prerequisites or other courses may be admitted to the Graduate College as a special student. International students with an F-1 visa may not enroll as special students. A special student must meet all of the academic requirements described for unqualified admission except that he or she need not be admitted or recommended for admission by a department or program.

The student is responsible for filing a new application for admission to the Graduate College should he or she wish to become a degree candidate. The application will be evaluated by faculty of the department or program and the dean of the Graduate College to ascertain admissibility to the degree program.

As such work is not guided by a plan of study or approved by an adviser, no more than nine semester credit hours of course work taken while a special student may be used on a plan of study to meet requirements for a degree. Special students are subject to the same academic regulations as those students admitted into degree programs.