The Department of Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering offers a combined five-year degree program leading to the Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science.
Under the combined degree program, an undergraduate student begins taking courses required for a master’s degree before completing the requirements for a bachelor’s degree and typically completes the requirements for a Master of Science in Civil, Environmental, and Sustainable Engineering within a year of completing the bachelor’s degree.
Undergraduate students admitted to the combined degree program are required to enroll in the program between February of their junior year and December of their senior year. Students in this program will receive their bachelor’s degree after satisfying the standard undergraduate degree requirements. To earn a master’s degree, students must fulfill all requirements for the degree, including the completion of 46 units of coursework beyond that applied to the bachelor’s degree. No individual course can be used to satisfy requirements for both the bachelor’s degree and master’s degree.
Application Process
To apply, you will need to submit the Engineering Graduate Programs' Online Application no later than the end of your junior year. Students applying to Bioengineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, or Engineering Management and Leadership will also need to submit the Application for Joint B.S./M.S. Degree Program to the Department Chair. The application fee and the GRE General Test requirement are waived. Automatic admission into the 5-year program is based on a minimum GPA of 3.0 (this GPA is not cumulative and is based only on math, science, and engineering classes). Upon notification of acceptance into the B.S./M.S. program, students may begin taking graduate-level courses in their senior year and a maximum of 20 units can be transferred into the graduate program.
Registering for Courses
Please note that you will not be able to sign up for courses through eCampus until your B.S. degree is conferred and your student status is officially changed to Graduate Student. In the interim, you must do the following to correctly register for courses in your senior year (upon notification of your acceptance into the Graduate Program):
- Complete the Permission to Take Graduate Courses as an Undergraduate form.
- Have it signed by both your faculty advisor and the department chair.
- Submit the signed form to the Graduate Programs Office for processing.
Notes:
- B.S. degrees (for those who are graduating seniors) must be posted by Sept. 1 to allow the student progression in their graduate career.
- Course numbers below 200 indicate undergraduate courses; numbers of 200 and above indicate graduate courses.
- Students may take cross-listed-courses assigned both undergraduate and graduate numbers (the same title used for both numbers) only one time, either as an undergraduate or graduate student.