Application
We look forward to receiving your application.
Due January 24, 2025 for Fall 2025 Admission (no spring matriculation).
Online Application Form
To access the on-line application form, visit Rutgers Graduate and Professional Admissions. Please note that the Rutgers graduate application has changed as of the 2022 season.
The application fee for Fall 2025 applications is $70.
Supplemental Materials
In addition to completing the on-line application, you will need to submit the following:
Transcript
Mail original, official transcript indicating the completion of a bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 3.0 or higher to:
Rutgers University–Camden
Office of Undergraduate and Graduate Admissions
406 Penn Street
Camden, NJ 08102
You may also send official transcripts through electronic services such as Interfolio or Parchment. Address them to
Letters of Recommendation
As part of the online application, you will be asked to provide the email addresses for the two people who will write your letters of recommendation. Once you submit your online application, your recommenders will receive an email from Graduate Admissions requesting that they submit their recommendation letter online. Please note: although the Graduate School application provides space for three email addresses, the MFA requires only two recommendation letters. Please do not send more than two. If you wish, you may use Interfolio to submit your letters of recommendation. For more information regarding letters of recommendation, please visit Rutgers Graduate and Professional Admissions.
Writing Sample and Personal Statement
Upload your writing sample and personal statement to the online portal. Your writing sample should represent your strongest work, whether published or not. You may submit fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, or a combination thereof. Prose should be double-spaced in size 12 font; poetry can be single-spaced. See below for page limits. Please do not send more than the specified number of pages.
NOTE: Because our core poetry faculty will be on sabbatical in 2025, we will not be accepting applications this year from writers whose only genre is poetry. However, we encourage poets who also have an interest in writing prose to submit a multi-genre application for consideration.
Fiction or Creative Nonfiction
Twenty to thirty pages of either completed shorter work or an excerpt from longer work
Multi-Genre
Please select a primary genre: poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction, and include between ten and fifteen pages of prose & five pages of poetry, or up to 30 pages of prose alone.
Your personal statement (usually 1-2 pages, double- or 1.5-spaced) should include information about your writing background and goals.
Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
GRE scores are not required.
Application Follow-Up
All Application Materials Due January 24, 2025
All applicants will be notified of their admission status by April 1, 2025.
To Check Your Status
Rutgers Graduate and Professional Admissions
Questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
mfa@camden.rutgers.edu