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Admissions Requirements

Students who have completed a minimum of 75 units are eligible to apply, usually early in the second semester of the student’s junior year (September or January). The student must create an account in GradApp (https://apply.grad.arizona.edu) and submit an online application to the Chemical Engineering AMP. (See https://grad.arizona.edu/catalog/programinfo/CHEMSCHEAMP) for more details. Once students have completed 90 units (usually at the end of their junior year’s second semester) and have a 3.30 or higher GPA, they will be conditionally admitted into the AMP. After conditional acceptance to the AMP program, students register during their senior (fourth) year to take a combination of undergraduate and graduate courses and are classified as undergraduate students. The graduate courses can double-count, serving both as electives for the BS degree and as elective courses for the MS.

In order to be fully admitted into the MS Graduate Program, early in the second semester of their senior year (usually January), the AMP student must submit a new application for the MS in Chemical Engineering in order to be fully accepted into the CHEE MS program. The student will not be charged an application fee for this simplified application. An automatic application fee waiver will be granted. After completing the BS, students are then eligible to be fully accepted as MS degree students and matriculate into the graduate program. In the fifth and final year, students focus on graduate course work and their thesis or project.

 

Standardized Tests

Required test(s): No GRE needed for AMP 

Eligibility criteria:

To be considered eligible to apply for the AMP ChE, students must:

- Be a continuing University of Arizona undergraduate.

- Have a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.3.

- At the time of application, have completed a minimum of 75 units of undergraduate course work; a minimum of 12 undergraduate units must have been completed in the student's major at University of Arizona’s main campus. Research experience as an undergraduate is not a requirement, but it is desirable.

Minimum TOEFL: 60 on revised paper based (or 550 is taken before 2017)
Minimum IELTS: 7
Minimum PTE: 60
Minimum CEFR: C1

 

Funding Opportunities

The Academic Unit has not provided this information. 

Admissions Deadlines

Domestic Applicants:

Early January of the junior year

International Applicants:

Early January of the junior year

See Eligibility Criteria above.

 

International Conditional Admission

International applicants will not be considered for conditional admission by this program.

Other Information

The GRE Institution Code for The University of Arizona is 4832

Completion Requirements

Minimum Credit Units

30 

Core Coursework Requirements

After admission into the AMP ChE program, the student must select an advisor who will guide the student’s research or development work toward the completion of a thesis or master’s report. Writing either a thesis or a report project is required. While students are in undergraduate status, CHEE 400 level courses that are convened with 500 level courses can be taken as electives for both the BS and the AMP programs, but the 500 version of the course must be taken if it is to be used toward the AMP. Exceptions are CHEE 420/520 and 477R/577R. These are required undergraduate courses and the 400 version must be taken and will not count toward the AMP.

While in undergraduate status, the AMP student may take up to 12 units from the following CHEE course list:

• CHEE 500R—Water Chemistry for Engineers (3 units)
• CHEE 502—Advanced Engineering Analysis* (3 units)
• CHEE 505—Advanced Chemical Engineering Transport Phenomena* (3 units)
• CHEE 506—Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics* (3 units)
• CHEE 512—Electrochemical Engineering (4 units)
• CHEE 514—Sustainable Water Supplies for Remote Communities (4 units)
• CHEE 525—Emerging Issues in Water Quality (3 units)
• CHEE 530—Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering* (3 units)
• CHEE 537—Surface Science (3 units)
• CHEE 542—Bioremediation on Inorganic Contaminants (2 units)
• CHEE/ATMO 569A—Air Pollution I: Gases (3 units)
• CHEE/ATMO 569B—Air Pollution II: Aerosols (3 units)
• CHEE 572—Interfacial Chemistry of Biomolecules in Environmental Systems (3 units)
• CHEE 574—Fate and Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering (3 units)
• CHEE 575—Water Treatment System Design (3 units)
• CHEE 576—Wastewater Treatment System Design (3 units)
• CHEE 578—Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management (3 units)
• CHEE 581A—Engineering of Biological Processes (3 units)
• CHEE 581B—Cell and Tissue Engineering (3 units)
• CHEE 582—Analysis of Emerging Environmental Contaminants (3 units)
• CHEE 583—Intro to Polymeric Materials (3 units)
• CHEE 587—Topics in Transport Phenomena (3 units)
• CHEE 589—Trends in Nanomedicine Engineering: Fundamentals of Therapeutics and Drug Delivery Systems (3 units)

* This is a Chemical Engineering core course and must be taken before completing the MS, whether student is in undergraduate or graduate status.

Minimum GPA in all graduate level coursework is 3.0/4.0.

The AMP ChE can be either thesis or non-thesis and will follow the same requirements of the regular MS program, which can be found in the ChEE graduate students handbook: https://chee.engineering.arizona.edu/sites/chee.engineering.arizona.edu/files/2022-23-CHEE-Grad-Student-Handbook_0.pdf.

Core coursework: 12 units of required courses:

• CHEE 502—Advanced Engineering Analysis (3 units)
• CHEE 505—Advanced Chemical Engineering Transport Phenomena (3 units)
• CHEE 506—Advanced Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics (3 units)
• CHEE 530—Advanced Chemical Reaction Engineering (3 units)

A minimum GPA of 3.0/4.0 is required for all core and elective courses in the program.

 

Elective Coursework

Nine (9) units of electives are required to complete the program. Elective courses are determined at the discretion of the individual student and the student's faculty advisor, usually relevant to the student's research. Course from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering that may be used to satisfy the requirement include:

• CHEE 500R—Water Chemistry for Engineers (3 units)
• CHEE 512—Electrochemical Engineering (4 units)
• CHEE 514—Sustainable Water Supplies for Remote Communities (4 units)
• CHEE 520—Chemical Reaction Engineering (3 units)
• CHEE 525—Emerging Issues in Water Quality (3 units)
• CHEE 537—Surface Science (3 units)
• CHEE 542—Bioremediation on Inorganic Contaminants (2 units)
• CHEE/ATMO 569A—Air Pollution I: Gases (3 units)
• CHEE/ATMO 569B—Air Pollution II: Aerosols (3 units)
• CHEE 572—Interfacial Chemistry of Biomolecules in Environmental Systems (3 units)
• CHEE 574—Fate and Transport Processes in Environmental Engineering (3 units)
• CHEE 575—Water Treatment System Design (3 units)
• CHEE 576—Wastewater Treatment System Design (3 units)
• CHEE 577R—Microbiology for Engineers (3 units)
• CHEE 578—Introduction to Hazardous Waste Management (3 units)
• CHEE 581A—Engineering of Biological Processes (3 units)
• CHEE 581B—Cell and Tissue Engineering (3 units)
• CHEE 582—Analysis of Emerging Environmental Contaminants (3 units)
• CHEE 583—Intro to Polymeric Materials (3 units)
• CHEE 587—Topics in Transport Phenomena (3 units)
• CHEE 589—Trends in Nanomedicine Engineering: Fundamentals of Therapeutics and Drug Delivery Systems (3 units)

 

Additional Requirements

All CHEE graduate students are required to register and attend CHEE 696A, the CHEE Graduate Seminar (1 unit), each semester that they are in the program. AMP students register for the seminar each semester during their graduate year. The MS Thesis requirement for 4+ units of CHEE 696A is reduced to 2 units for AMP MS Thesis candidates.

 

Student Handbook

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.

 

Additional Information

This is an Accelerated Master's Program (AMP).

The Graduate College offers exceptional undergraduate students in selected majors the opportunity to earn both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in as few as 5 years. The Accelerated Master's Program is for the top undergraduates in participating majors who plan to continue in a graduate program in the same, or closely related, UA discipline.

Programs will select from among a qualified pool, based on the following criteria. Individual programs may have more stringent or additional requirements:

• Completion of a minimum of 75 undergraduate credit hours will be required at the time of application; a minimum of 90 undergraduate credit hours will be required at the time of entry into the AMP. If the student's GPA falls below 3.30 at the time s/he has completed 90 units, the student will not be admitted into the program. Courses taken for audit may not be included in the total number of units counted for eligibility or admission.
• Completion of at least 12 earned units of undergraduate course work in the major at the UA.
• Units still graded Incomplete, units graded Pass/Fail or units taken as audit will not count toward the requirement of the 12 undergraduate units in the major.
• Completion or near completion of general education requirements.
• Submission of a graduate application and payment of a graduate application fee.
• Demonstration of the maturity necessary for success in an accelerated, highly competitive program.
• Expectation to complete the undergraduate degree within four years. The undergraduate degree requirements must be completed before the student is eligible to have the Master's degree awarded.
• Interested students should verify departmental requirements as they may have additional or more stringent requirements than the Graduate College minimum requirements.

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