Accelerated Bachelor’s /Master’s Program
This program allows high achieving students to begin work on a master’s degree during their senior year of their undergraduate program. Specifically, the program allows students to take three INSY graduate classes in place of two INSY electives and one technical elective and to count the courses (9 total hours) for both degrees. This program allows students to receive the master’s degree after only 22 hours beyond the bachelor’s degree (rather than the normal 31 hours).
Application Process
Students will apply for the program after completion of INSY 3420 and INSY 3700, which are taken in the Spring semester of their junior year. Applications will consist of plans of study for both the BISE and MS/MISE degrees and will be due by June 1 (click for the MS/MISE Plan of Study form). Students accepted into the program must have overall and in-major GPAs of at least 3.4. Upon approval by the Program Coordinator (Professor Jeffrey Smith) and Program Chair (Professor Alice Smith), students will apply to the Graduate School so that accepted students can register in the 6000 and 7000-level courses beginning in Fall semester of their senior year.
Program Matriculation
Students will matriculate in the accelerated program during Fall semester of the senior year of their undergraduate degree program. According to the model schedule, students will complete the BISE in the first Spring semester following matriculation into the program, which would be their last semester in the normal bachelor’s degree program. The Master of Industrial Engineering/Master of Science would be completed in August of the second year in the advanced degree program (i.e. 2 years after matriculating into the accelerated program or 15 months after completion of the bachelor’s degree).
Academic Advising
All undergraduate students in Industrial and Systems Engineering must meet with the academic advisor (Ms. LuAnn Sims) each semester and this practice will apply to students in the accelerated program. Graduate students will have a major professor directing their project/thesis research or will meet with the Graduate Program Officer (Professor Jeffrey Smith) if they are taking the course work only MISE option. In addition, the Industrial and Systems Engineering academic advisor is available as needed.
