The office is located at Augusta Square on 3412 Wrightsboro Road, Suite 601-G, Augusta, GA 30909. A test date can be scheduled by calling the offices at 706-733-5085. The test is taken electronically, and it can be scheduled any day, Monday through Thursday, and Saturday between 9 am and 5:30pm. The office is open on Fridays from 9am to 1 pm. The GRE test lasts four hours. Scores are reported to the test taker within two weeks. Allow approximately four weeks for ETS to send the scores to Augusta State University.

The Master of Public Administration degree program requires scores in the test areas of Verbal, Quantitative and Analytical skills. The analytical portion is a writing assessment which is graded on a scale of 0-6.

The following formular is applied when the GRE scores and transcripts are recorded:

GRE verbal score + (GRE analytical score x 100) + GRE quantitative score + (GPA x 100) = 1500