In the senior year, provisionally admitted students must submit the formal application to the Graduate School (including payment of the application fee) by January 15. While submission of GRE score is optional for such students, GRE is highly recommended if the students wish to be considered for assistantships or scholarships.

During the senior year, provisionally admitted students would take up to 9 credits toward the masters degree. These courses would also count towards the bachelors degree (joint credits), but must be part of the Master’s Program of Study.

Upon graduation with a bachelors degree, and with satisfactory performance (defined as 3.5 cumulative GPA and no grade below “B” in the courses to be double-counted for the masters degree) in courses taken as an undergraduate, the student may be formally matriculated into the masters program. Students who meet these requirements must matriculate in their masters program within one semester/term after receiving their bachelors degree in order to use the joint credits. Under extraordinary circumstances, a student may petition to delay matriculation up to an additional 12 months.

To double count 9 credits toward the BS and the MS, the 4+1 degree requires students to complete the degree 15 months following matriculation, and the 4+2 degree requires students to complete the degree 27 months following matriculation.

Students can move between our 4+1 and 4+2 degree programs. If a student starts in a 4+1 program and requests to move to the 4+2 before the end of the 15 month 4+1 period, then in order to apply up to 9 credits of graduate courses taken as a senior to the master’s degree as well as to the undergraduate degree, the student must actually complete a thesis successfully in the 27 month period of the 4+2 program. If a student in the 4+2 option requests to drop back to the 4+1 option, s/he must complete all the requirements for the 4+1 within 15 months of finishing the bachelor’s degree, otherwise the graduate courses taken as a senior may not also be applied to the master’s degree. In addition, s/he cannot count ECE 699 as credits in the 4+1 program. A student may petition the Graduate School for an extension due to extenuating circumstances.