B.S./Accelerated M.S. (Bachelor's/Master's) Degrees
Program
The B.S./Accelerated MS program is intended for those highly capable students who are
interested in immediately continuing their undergraduate academic program in electrical or
computer engineering into a graduate program in their respective discipline. This program
allows for the completion of both a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in EE or in CpE
in five years, in 144 credit hours.
Admission
- Students in the electrical engineering program or computer engineering program can
apply
for the accelerated B.S./M.S. program in EE or CpE, respectively, during the semester in
which they expect to complete 90 undergraduate credits applicable toward the B.S. degree.
- An overall GPA of at least 3.50 at the time of application is required.
- Criteria for admission to the B.S./Accelerated M.S. program in EE or CpE is identical
to the criteria for admission to the M.S. EE or M.S. CpE programs.
- Application is made using an abbreviated graduate program application form specifying
the "overlapping" courses and detailing the 3.50 undergraduate GPA which must be submitted for
approval. All other graduate admissions requirements must be met.
Degree Requirements
- Students must complete 144 credit hours that satisfy all the requirements for both the
B.S. degree and the M.S. degree, with six credit hours overlap.
- Students will take 6 credit hours of 500 level courses either as part of their
technical
electives or substituting for required courses as part of their 120 credit hour
undergraduate program. The specific courses that may be taken and applied to the
accelerated program will be specified by the ECE Department, for each of the two (EE and
CpE) programs.
- Students in the B.S./Accelerated M.S. program may take additional graduate level
courses
as part of their B.S. technical electives with their advisor's approval. These additional
graduate level courses will not count toward the M.S. degree.
- Students admitted to the accelerated program must maintain an overall GPA of at least
3.50 during their entire B.S./M.S. program, and must present a GPA of at least 3.50 for the
24 credit hours of graduate work submitted for the M.S. degree.
Degree Conferral
- Students in the B.S./Accelerated M.S. program may apply to have the B.S. (in EE or CpE)
conferred during the semester in which they expect to complete the B.S. requirements.
- At the completion of the M.S. requirements the M.S. degree will be awarded.