Admission requirements
Graduate & Professional Studies

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To be eligible for admission, you must meet the following criteria:

• A baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum undergraduate cumulative GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 scale ( conditional admission with GPA of 2.7 to 2.99)  (Degrees from colleges accredited by the Association for Biblical Higher Education [ABHE] or affiliated with the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges & Universities [TRACS] will be considered on a case-by-case basis.) 
• Send official transcripts from your bachelor's degree institution (no undergraduate transcripts are required of NWC alumni) by mail or as an official e-transcript to onlineadmissions@nwciowa.edu.
• Provide a copy of teaching license. Applicants must possess a valid teaching license. A digital or scanned copy from your state's Department of Education website is sufficient.
• Applicants for the M.Ed. Educational Administration + Principal Endorsement, and Principal Endorsement-only option should have at least one school year of teaching experience; those in their first year of teaching can be accepted and the program director can waive this requirement.

Licensure program

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Non-licensure program

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To be eligible for admission, you must meet the following criteria:

• Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 on a 4.0 scale
• Send official transcripts from your high school or college showing at least nine completed credits by mail or as an official e-transcript to onlineadmissions@nwciowa.edu. 
• Complete a bilingual language verification conversation with the program director.