The Accelerated Program

What to do if You’re Accepted

If admitted, the student follows a prescribed course of study in which a predetermined number of credits at the 600 level or higher may be taken as an undergraduate and counted later toward their master’s degree or certificate. They may be enrolled on either a part-time or full-time basis. Students must complete the Request for Approval for Undergraduates to Take Courses for Graduate Credit form for each graduate level course in which they wish to enroll.

Applying to your Graduate Program

Students must still apply and be admitted to the Graduate School for the graduate portion of their program.

Our graduate application can be completed online and the application fee is waived for eligible students in the accelerated programs. Please note that students wishing to enroll in the Accelerated Program for Information Systems or Human Centered Computing will need to apply through their application. There will be no retroactive admissions to the accelerated program once the student has received the bachelor’s degree.

Students must have at least a 3.0 GPA to be considered, and some programs have more strict requirements.

The GRE is often waived for applicants in this program; some graduate programs also waive other application requirements (e.g. letters of recommendation). If admitted, students must develop a plan of study for the remainder of their undergraduate career with the graduate program director.

Students in these accelerated tracks must continue to be in good academic standing throughout the course of their studies. In all cases, the faculty of both the student’s undergraduate and graduate programs must approve the courses that are being used toward the degrees in their respective departments.

A student admitted to the program may be allowed to take a break between their undergraduate and graduate careers, but the graduate courses taken as an undergraduate must be used toward the master’s degree within five years.