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	All applicants for graduate study must have earned a bachelor's degree from a four-year accredited college. Prospective students must follow all current procedures of the School of Graduate Studies. The minimum requirement for unconditional admission to the Master of Science in Civil Engineering Program is an undergraduate degree from an ABET accredited Civil Engineering, Architectural Engineering, or Bioenvironmental Engineering program with a minimum of 3.0 (out of 4.0) Grade Point Average on the overall undergraduate program of study. The other two categories of admission, provisional and special student, may also be used on a case-by-case basis as described below. Persons may be admitted provisionally to the MSCE program if any of the following conditions apply: The undergraduate degree is not from an ABET accredited CAAE program The undergraduate degree is not engineering but in a closely related curriculum with a substantial engineering science content Deficiencies revealed in the analysis of the undergraduate transcript may be removed by the inclusion of no more than 12 semester credit hours. A student admitted provisionally would be required to meet with a graduate program coordinator to develop a list of undergraduate courses that must be taken to eliminate deficiencies in the undergraduate preparation for graduate study. All provisionally admitted students must earn a 3.0 grade point average on the first nine graduate course credits completed. In addition, a 3.0 grade point average must be earned on all undergraduate courses if any were required as a condition of admission. Students who do not hold an engineering undergraduate degree may have course deficiencies exceeding 12 semester credits. These students can be considered for special student status until such time that their deficiencies are reduced so that they can qualify for provisional admission. Persons with massive undergraduate deficiencies, even though they might hold an undergraduate degree, are asked to apply as transfer students to the undergraduate Civil Engineering program. Make-up courses will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis dependent on the student's area of interest. Students who are not seeking a graduate degree at NC A&T are also classified as special students. They are admitted to take courses for self-improvement. If a student subsequently wishes to pursue a degree program, he/she must request an evaluation of his/her record. The School of Graduate Studies reserves the right to refuse to accept credits earned while being enrolled as a special student towards a degree program; under no circumstances may the student apply towards a degree program more than twelve semester hours of graduate credits earned as a special student. In addition to the above application material, foreign nationals or people whose mother tongue is not English are required to provide special information concerning English proficiency and finances. Specifically, these applicants are required to take the standardized Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) and achieve a minimum score of 550. The School of Graduate Studies accepts application from students who already hold a Master's degree in other fields or disciplines, but wish to earn a MSCE degree. Consistent with NC AT&T's School of Graduate Studies' policy, applicants holding a Master's degree in another engineering discipline from NC A&T need only complete 18 credit hours to earn a MSCE degree. If the applicant holds an engineering Master's degree from outside NC A&T, a maximum of 6 credit hours of course work may be transferred.