The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the latest to no longer require the GRE.
(Thanks to Nir Ben-Moshe for the information.)
UPDATE: Philosopher Kenny Easwaran (Texas A&M) writes:
I noticed your announcement that UIUC no longer requires the GRE for graduate admissions. Texas A&M's philosophy department actually made the decision last year as well and filed the paperwork so that applications for this upcoming cycle will not have GRE scores included.
But in the past few months, due to the difficulty of students finding test centers and times that are open during the pandemic, the university has actually made the move to end GRE requirements for *all* graduate programs unless the department specifically requests to keep it. I would not be surprised if many other universities have done something similar for at least this year. It may be worth doing a broader inquiry into this.
My partner is in the Chemistry department at Texas A&M and tells me that this process has been so widespread in the sciences, that as departments drop it, they are tweeting the fact with the hashtag #GRExit. (I had to add "gre" to the search term to avoid my results being dominated by decade-old worries about Greece leaving the EU.)
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