Overview

Key Facts

Graduate students in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations program at the University of Pennsylvania will work closely with the faculty of the NELC Graduate Group, whose members include not just NELC departmental faculty but also faculty from across the University whose interests and specialties involve the advanced study of the Near East and its cultures.

An advanced degree in NELC can lead to any number of careers. Our NELC graduates commonly adopt careers in academia, but not always. Recent graduates are employed as faculty in the full range of private and public research universities and smaller liberal-arts colleges. But many have also found distinguished careers in museums, government, journalism, diplomacy, and other areas, as can be seen from this list of our graduates and their theses from the past 150 years or so. Currently, NELC has one of the best placement records of any department in the Humanities at Penn.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

First Year Akkadian

Sumerian Daily Texts

Middle Egyptian Texts

Elementary Arabic

Elementary Modern Hebrew

Ancient Near East

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 18 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-08-25 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

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Credits

30 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Philadelphia, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

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General requirements

Application

Personal Statement

Three (3) Letters of Recommendation

All academic transcripts of undergraduate courses and graduate courses, if any.

TOEFL score or IELTS score for non-native speakers of English

Writing Sample

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

65616 USD / year

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65616 USD / year

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In-State

65616 USD / year

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Additional Details

tuition per course unit.

Living costs

Philadelphia

United States

1313 - 2284 USD / month

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Scholarships Information

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Additional Details

Living costs

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