Biomedical Engineering Accelerated Master's Program

• Undergraduate students must apply for admission to the accelerated program though the standard Graduate School application process during the first semester of their senior year.  However, students need to begin discussions with biomedical engineering faculty during their junior year to ensure they are enrolled in the correct courses for accelerated masters.
• Only students who intend to complete both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree at Michigan Tech are eligible to enroll in the accelerated program.
• Students already enrolled in a graduate program may not retroactively enroll in the Biomedical Engineering Accelerated Master’s program.

• Students must earn 30 credit hours at the 4000 level or higher for the Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering; however, up to 9 of these credit hours taken as an undergraduate student can be applied toward both the Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees. Upon entrance into the program, students must indicate which undergraduate-level courses will be applied to both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
• Up to 6 credits taken as Independent Study may be for research-related activities (note that the Biomedical Engineering Accelerated Master’s program offers course work-only and thesis degree option). No undergraduate research credits may be applied to the Master of Science degree.

Only students in good academic standing are eligible to enter the Biomedical Engineering Accelerated Master’s program. Students must maintain a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above on a 4.0 scale.

• Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the biomedical engineering program, courses will be taken both within and outside of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, as determined by the student and the advisory committee and dependent on the student’s area of emphasis. However, the student will need to earn at least 12 credit hours from courses offered by the Department of Biomedical Engineering.
• Throughout the MS degree program, graduate students will be required to attend the Graduate Seminar. No credit will be given.

• Each student will have an academic advisor who is a member of the biomedical engineering faculty. The advisor’s primary responsibility is to supervise the student’s academic and professional growth, as well as to work with the student to develop an academic plan for enrolling in the appropriate courses for the student and program.
• The academic plan developed by the student and academic advisor will need written approval from the faculty advisor and the departmental graduate coordinator.