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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS FOR MASTERS DEGREE PROGRAM |
A student must first be admitted to the Graduate School completing the required application forms and submitting along with two official copies of the student's undergraduate and/or graduate transcripts to the Graduate School. An official GRE score is required for all overseas students. Satisfying the requirements described does not guarantee admission. Students are admitted solely by the department in three categories:
- Unconditional Admission
An applicant may be given unconditional admission to the MSEE program if he/she possesses an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from an ABET accredited institution with an overall GPA of 3.0 or better on a 4.0 scale. In addition, the applicant must have a 3.0 average in all of his or her engineering courses. International students are not given unconditional status unless they submit the GRE scores to the Graduate School.
- Provisional Admission
Applicants may be granted provisional admission if they do not qualify for unconditional admission due to one or more of the following reasons:
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Applicant has a non-Electrical Engineering baccalaureate engineering degree with a GPA of 3.0 or better, but he/she is deficient in required background courses: (Note: Applicant must take more than 4 background courses). |
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Applicant who does not have a degree from an ABET accredited curriculum (e.g. international students) did not submit the GRE scores. A minimum GRE score of Verbal + Quantitative = 1100 is required for the unconditional status. |
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Applicant has an overall GPA less than 3.0 in Electrical Engineering, but has a GPA over 2.8. |
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Electrical Engineering students has a GPA less than 2.8 with a minimum GRE Verbal + Quantitative scores of 1100. |
A provisionally admitted student must achieve unconditional admission after completing all background courses and 9 graduate credit hours with an average of 3.0 or better. Upon the satisfaction of the above condition, the student may request through the Graduate Coordinator for conversion to the unconditional admission by the Graduate School.
A provisional student must not take more than 12 graduate credit hours in Electrical Engineering prior to receiving unconditional admission to the MSEE program. It is the student's responsibility to request his/her status change from the provisional status to the unconditional status by the Graduate School through teh Graduate Coordinator. Students who fail to have their status upgraded run the risk of not receiving graduate credit for completed graduate courses.
- Post-Baccalaureate Studies (PBS)
This category applies to students lacking a baccalaureate degree in engineering and requiring 9-15 hours of prerequisites in general engineering background who possesses a GPA of 3.0 or better from an accredited program.
Upon completion of the required background courses with a “B” average or better, these students may reapply to the graduate program. However, the PBS student must not take more than 12 graduate credit hours in Electrical Engineering prior to applying for admission to the MSEE program. No more than 12 graduate credit hours earned in PBS status can be counted in his/her MSEE program.
All graduate students admitted in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering must meet with the Graduate Coordinator to obtain information about Graduate Program. The Graduate Coordinator assists students for registration and course selection until students selects a permanent advisor by mutual agreement between the student and the faculty member. Students must select a permanent advisor no more than 9 credit hours into the program or by the end of the first semester.
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