Five-Year B.S./M.S. Program
Target Audience
This program seeks to engage undergraduate students at Georgia Tech who indicate an interest in, and ability for, additional education beyond the BS degree. The key components of such a program are: (1) A meaningful undergraduate research experience (ChBE 4698 or 4699) for those seeking the non-thesis M.S. degree; and (2) Careful advising and course-planning to enable students to begin graduate coursework in the fourth year of study. Students with significant AP credit will be especially well positioned to take full advantage of this opportunity.
How the Program Works
Students in the BS/MS Program will remain undergraduates until they meet the requirements for the BS degree, at which point they will receive their degree and will change their status to that of graduate students.
Students will be eligible to apply for the program after completion of 30 semester credit hours at Georgia Tech (i.e. at the end of the Freshman Year). As a practical matter, it is recommended that students apply to the program immediately after completion of ChBE 3110. Students must have a Georgia Tech GPA of 3.5 or higher for admission into the Five Year BS/MS Program in Chemical Engineering.
Graduate Admissions and Enrollment Services (GAES) will process a streamlined application (application fee waived, no GREs, one recommendation letter from a Georgia Tech faculty member, and a short essay) and forward to the Graduate Coordinator (Prof. Amyn Teja). The application must be endorsed by the student's academic advisor in the School. Admission into the program will be based on academic performance at Georgia Tech, as well as the potential for advanced study and/or research as assessed from the essay.
Continuation in the program will require the student to maintain a GPA of 3.0 or higher. This GPA requirement should not deter students from taking challenging courses. The program will not penalize students who opt out after the BS degree. Students participating in the program will be eligible for the 6 credit-hour "Graduate Course Option" as described in the Institute Catalog.
Requirements for the 5-Yr. BS/MS Degree
The MS degree requirements for the 5-yr. BS/MS program in Chemical Engineering are given in the following table:
Course Number
Course Name
Credit Hours
CHE 6XXX
Chemical Engineering Elective
3
ChE 6100
Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics
3
ChE 6200
Transport Phenomena: Momentum and Heat Transfer
3
ChE 6260
Mass Transfer
3
ChE 6300
Kinetics and Reactor Design
3
ChE 6500
Mathematical Modeling of Chemical Processes
3
Other Elective
3
ChE 7000
Master's Thesis or other electives
9
Total Credit Hours
30