The following information applies to admissions for the MSIM Early-Career, Early-Career Accelerated, and Mid-Career tracks offered in residential mode.

The residential application is available here: Application for Graduate Study.

Online applicants should consult the Admissions Information for Online Applicants.

Autumn 2025 Early-Career (EC) & Early-Career Accelerated (ECA) MSIM admissions timeline: residential applicants

Autumn 2025 Mid-Career MSIM admissions timeline: residential applicants

• Please be aware that our application system operates on the U.S. Eastern Time Zone, which means the time displayed in your application may be three hours later than the current time in Seattle/Pacific Time. All applications submitted by the deadline and marked as received by the following day at 2:59 a.m. Eastern Time will be considered acceptable.
• Test scores and letters of recommendation have a two-day grace period beyond the application deadline for submission. Kindly urge your recommenders to submit the letters at their earliest convenience to ensure the completeness of your application for the given round.

Admissions process and deadline policy

The MSIM programs will has a round-based admission process. Applications will be reviewed and decisions made for each round, according to the grid above. The following basic guidelines will be observed:

• All applications submitted and marked completed during the application round will be reviewed after the stated deadline.
• All application materials must arrive by the application round deadline. 
• If an application is incomplete at a round deadline, the application will be reviewed once complete and with the next round of applications.
• Applicants should only apply once per admissions season. Apply when you can present the best application of yourself possible. 

After a round of review, if no decision has been reached, the admissions committee may choose to put some applicants "on hold" and move them to the next round of review. Applicants with this status will be notified.

As cohorts approach maximum capacity in the later cycles, our admissions decisions necessarily become more selective. Additionally, funding opportunities decrease throughout the academic year, so applicants are strongly encouraged to apply early.

If application materials are missing due to circumstances beyond the applicant's control, the committee will take that into consideration and make its judgment based on the available information. Please email iask@uw.edu with any concerns regarding this issue.