Are there specific considerations relevant for international students?
Our admission and fellowship offers have no citizenship requirements. International students on fellowship are eligible for specific student visas through the United States Department of State. We have always had a significant number of international students in our program, and many of those students have gone on to distinguished careers in the United States and in their native countries. The international character of our program (students and faculty) is a point of pride, but also one source of our program’s quality, since the field of ethnomusicology is so profoundly an international discipline, and becoming more so every year. The main consideration related to international students is English-language fluency. Columbia University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences places specific requirements on all applicants who are not native speakers of English, detailed at: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsas/pages/pstudents/admissions/information/international.html The primary consideration
