Why this exists
I started looking at graduate programs between jobs - weighing an MBA against an engineering master's - and immediately ran into the problem that made me build this site. I was past most deadlines. I only had a certain number of recommendation letters lined up. I hadn't sat the GRE or GMAT and didn't want to. I needed to find every program that was still accepting applications, that didn't require a test I hadn't taken, and that would accept the rec-letter count I already had. That question sounds narrow. It isn't. Nothing on the open web answers it without opening dozens of tabs, reading each school's admissions page in full, and building a spreadsheet by hand. I built that spreadsheet. Then I decided nobody else should have to.
Who I am
I'm Antoine P., a software engineer. I'm not an admissions consultant, and I don't take money from schools - I'm an applicant who hit the wall myself and wrote the tool I wish had existed. GradsMatch is what came out of it: every public master's program I could find, normalized into the same fields (tuition, modality, credits, deadlines, test requirements, GPA thresholds, rec letter counts, prerequisites, post-study work rights), so you can filter on the exact constraints that actually narrow the list. The goal is that "master's programs still open, no GRE, two rec letters" stops being a two-week research project.
What we do differently
- Normalized data. Every program in our database uses the same fields and the same units. "GPA: 3.2 minimum" means the same thing on every page, even if the school's own website buries it three clicks deep in a PDF.
- Side-by-side comparisons. Stack any two programs against each other and see exactly where they differ on the things that matter for your application.
- Honest sourcing. Every data point links back to its source on the school's official page. We're not making anything up.
- Date-stamped freshness. Tuition and deadline data changes every cycle. Every page shows when we last verified it.
How we make money
GradsMatch has a free tier (program names, locations, modality, tuition, and program descriptions) and a paid tier that unlocks the precise data most useful when you're actually applying - exact GPA thresholds, GRE and TOEFL minimums, application deadlines, recommendation letter counts, essay prompts, and prerequisite course lists. We don't take money from schools to rank them higher, and we don't sell your application data.
Contact
Spotted incorrect data, want a program added, or just want to chat about grad applications? Email hello@gradsmatch.com. For methodology details, see the methodology page.