Graduate Program: Materials Science and Engineering (MS) - Accelerated Master's Program

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Program/Degree
Materials Science and Engineering (MS) - Accelerated Master's Program  
Program Description

The Accelerated Master's Program (AMP) in MSE is a program designed to enable advanced UA undergraduate students to complete both the Bachelor of Science degree as well as the Master of Science degree in MSE in a total of 5 years.  Students can leverage undergraduate coursework in MSE into a graduate degree through one additional year of coursework.  During the senior year, a student may take several technical electives and MSE technical electives at the graduate level.  After completing these graduate level courses, the student will receive credit toward their undergraduate degree and a Master’s degree. This program is not open to students who have completed a Bachelor's degree or an advanced degree from another institution.

 
Department/Academic Unit(s)

The science and engineering of materials hold the key to advances in many critical areas of high technology - from integrated circuits and chip carriers to turbine engines and optical waveguides. As a result, the field of Materials Science and Engineering abounds with scientific challenges critical to a broad variety of applications. Exciting times are ahead and MSE is poised to initiate new thrusts in optical materials, biomaterials, tissue engineering, nanotechnology and computational modeling of materials.

The Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Arizona has attracted a wide group of world class individuals to its faculty and has developed a pioneering and wide-ranging curriculum at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.  Funding from the state, federal government and industry has provided modern facilities and supported research of ever expanding scope and magnitude.  We conduct research at both the campus setting and at our off-campus research facility, the Arizona Materials Laboratory (AML).

The department has exciting research programs in areas as diverse as high-tech ceramics, non-linear optical materials, sol-gel and biomimetic processing, and polymers in electronic packaging. It has a long tradition of excellence in extractive and physical metallurgy; the movement toward high-tech materials has not been made at the expense of this excellence, but rather as a complement to it.

 
College

College of Engineering

 
Campus where offered

University of Arizona - Main - Tucson

 
Contacts
Admissions Contact
Elsa I Morales
520-626-6762
Graduate Program Coordinator
Elsa I Morales
520-626-6762
Director of Graduate Studies
Sammy Tin
520-621-6070
Graduate College Degree Counselor
Megan Jia Mcnulty-Luoma
520-626-9962
 
Tuition and Fees
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Please refer to the UA Registrar's's Office Special Course Fees for up-to-date information about special course fees. 

Admissions Information

Admissions Requirements

Admission requirements:

 

  • Have completed at least 75 undergraduate credit hours at the time of application and 90 undergraduate credit hours at the time of entry into the AMP, with a cumulative GPA equal or above 3.3
  • Have completed least 12 units of undergraduate credit hours in MSE at The University of Arizona.
  • Have completed, or nearly completed the general education requirements at the time of application.
  • Submit an application to the graduate college at: https://apply.grad.arizona.edu/

 


 

 

 
Standardized Tests

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Funding Opportunities
The Academic Unit has not provided this information. 
Admissions Deadlines
  • Fall: June 1
 
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

ETS Major Field Code(s) for this program: 1400, 1401, 1402, 1403, 1404, 1499

Completion Requirements

Minimum Credit Units

30 

Core Coursework Requirements

Accelerated Masters Program (AMP) requirements:                                                 

Course Requirements:

  •    27 units of regularly scheduled (A,B,C) graduate courses of which 15 units must be from the MSE department, including MSE 510 (Thermodynamics), MSE 572 – Kinetics.
  •    3 units of miscellaneous graduate courses (independent study or regularly scheduled graduate-level courses).   Only 1 unit of seminar (MSE 595a) will count towards the total misc. coursework requirement.   However, the student must be enrolled in seminar each semester*.  

30 Units Total.

 
Elective Coursework

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Additional Requirements

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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:

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Last revised 24 Feb 2021