Studies Leading to a Professional Master Degree

It is critical to coordinate with your academic advisor your course plan at the very beginning. The academic advisor will help you put a plan together that can be accomplished in a reasonable time frame. Not all the courses are offered every semester. With exception to the Masters of Engineering Management, other Professional Master degrees require out of program courses.

If your previous degree was in another field or if you can otherwise demonstrate breadth in your previous work (beyond what is normally expected from B.S. degree programs in your field), your advisor may recommend to the Dean of Graduate Studies that the out-of-department requirement be waived. This recommendation must take the form of a memo from your advisor, in which they detail the rationale for their recommendation. If the recommendation is not approved by the Dean of Graduate Studies, the recommendation may be appealed to the Graduate Council for consideration.