We invite you to provide a personal statement that describes your academic interests, prior professional experience and achievements, professional goals, and how the CU Boulder mechanical engineering MS degree will enable you to meet those goals. You may also wish to share additional information that you want the admissions committee to be aware of. A strong personal statement tells a story and contextualizes information on your resume/CV instead of repeating it.
If you are interested in the MS thesis degree, please also discuss your research experience and the faculty and research groups that interest you. Note that even though all MS applicants initially apply to our professional MS degree, your status will be updated to the MS thesis program once you secure a thesis advisor; this often happens in your first or second semester in our MS program.
There is no minimum or maximum page/word length for the personal statement but we usually recommend it being one to two pages.