Shared Credit Program

The School of Engineering Shared Credit Program

The School of Engineering offers a Nuclear Engineering Shared Credit Program designed to allow students to get a head start on their master’s program for Nuclear Engineering. To accomplish this, some courses are counted towards both the bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Curriculum

School of Engineering courses that can be shared between BS and MS degrees fall into two categories:

  1. Courses that are designated as either technical electives, track electives, engineering electives, management electives, or advanced science electives. In the shared-credit degrees program, these courses are replaced by appropriate 500-level graduate courses that count towards both degrees,
  2. Courses that are offered at both the 400 (undergraduate) and 500 (graduate) levels. Students in the shared credit degree program will take these courses at the 500-level with the course counting towards both the BS and MS degrees.

This program is intended to facilitate both disciplinary and interdisciplinary BS and MS degree programs. The exact curriculum for each student is determined with consultation from the director of undergraduate studies for the student’s BS degree and the director of graduate studies for the student’s MS degree and is approved by the School of Engineering Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Students pursuing an interdisciplinary shared-credit degree program may be required to take prerequisite courses for the graduate-level courses in the MS program. Thus, an interdisciplinary shared-credit degree program may require more than the nominal five years to complete. Therefore, although it is possible to transition from any undergraduate program within the School of Engineering to the Nuclear Engineering graduate program, some paths may be simpler than others. One of the most direct pathways into the NE graduate program is from the undergraduate Nuclear Engineering program.

The application and curriculum worksheet for the Nuclear Engineering shared credit program can be found under the subheading "Shared Credit Forms" on our Undergraduate Student Forms page.

Admission

The BS/MS Shared Credit Program is a special program for which a student applies during the junior year of the BS program. Students may apply after completing 75 credit hours applicable to the BS degree. To be eligible for the shared credit program, students must have already been admitted to a BS degree program in the School of Engineering.

Admission to the graduate portion of this program is provisional and is not finalized until the student satisfactorily completes the requirements for the BS degree.