The best practice is to find the most recent version of each form and form preview every time you need them. With digital forms, especially, the Graduate School makes regular, minor changes to the wording of instructions. These changes continuously improve the forms' clarity and usability. Major changes are also announced to campus.

Admissions

• Unofficial & Official International Academic Records - 2025
• Unofficial & Official International Academic Records – Spring 2024
• Unofficial & Official International Academic Records – Fall 2023
• Transition to Slate
• Major Code Changes at the Graduate Level
• GAMS (requires MSU Net ID)

Funding

• Cost of Attendance Adjustment (template)

International Admissions

• Online training on international graduate admissions (MSU login required)
• English Language Competency information (including Waiver procedure)
• Sample Bachelor's Degree from China 2008-2015 (PDF)
• Checklist of Required Documentation for International Applicants Revised 2024
• Guide to International Admissions
• Policy guidance affecting provisional admission of students and the issuing of I-20s (SS17)
• Proof of Degree Letter (PDF) - this can be given to applicants to provide to their universities in order to request official copies of their final diplomas 

Policies/Procedures

• MSU Libraries’ Electronic Resources November 2019
• Graduate Handbook Template
• Strategic Program Assessment
• Annual Evaluation Forms

Waiver Requests

• Temp Comp and Defense Forms Process
• Graduate Time Limit Extension Request
  
• Graduate School Approved Committee Member Requests
• English Language Competency information (including Waiver procedure)
• Four-Year Degree Requirement

GA Template Letters

• Graduate Assistant Letters

GradPlan

The web-interactive system for Ph.D. students to create and store their Ph.D. Degree Plans and subsequent graduate program activities. Students can link to the log-in page: https://student.msu.edu.

GradInfo

The web-app that has data on all M and D students in the past 10 years, plus current students.  It also has dynamic data generated for completion rates, time-to-degree, demographics, enrollment counts, median GRE scores (if applicable), degree award counts, and initial placement (and subsequent placement for Ph.D. students as the GS has an ongoing project using social media to find current placements). These data are useful in academic program review and are data that comprise part of the metrics used by the Office of the Provost. https://student.msu.edu
Access is controlled by your college security administrator and requires updated FERPA training offered through the Office of the Registrar (the training is offered on D2L).  For more on FERPA see:  https://reg.msu.edu/ROInfo/Notices/PrivacyGuidelines.aspx  

GradInfo is the source of the PUBLIC Ph.D. data on the Grad Applications page: http://grad.msu.edu/apply/PHDdata

Forms

The Graduate School has several available at https://grad.msu.edu/forms

Degree Processes

• Major Code Changes at the Graduate Level

Recruitment funding

Advance to Adventure (ATA) Guidelines

Out-of-State Tuition Waiver for External Fellowships

Prospective Doctoral Student Recruitment and Retention Program