Choosing a Master's Program

ECEE, the Bachelor’s / Accelerated Master’s (BAM)program offers you the opportunity to receive a bachelor’s and master’s degree in a shorter period of time.

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Degree Costs

The traditional MS degrees, Professional MS and MS-EE on Coursera degrees have different billing structures you should review before applying:

Please Note: There are different rates for the traditional program, the PMPs, and Coursera. These rates are also different if you are an in-state resident vs an out-of-state or international student. Please read through the fee rates closely! 

Tuition is less expensive for PMP students who are out-of-state residents or international students. PMP tuition is more expensive for in-state residents. 

Funding Considerations for Traditional MS and PMP

You will automatically be considered for potential aid; there is no extra paperwork to fill out to be considered. However, it is rare that we are able to provide scholarships, funding or assistantships to our master’s students. Nearly all research assistantships (RA) go to fully fund our PhD students, and we do not use teaching assistantships (TA). Additionally, Professional Master’s students are not eligible to hold a graduate appointment like a TA or an RA and may only hold hourly student appointments that do not include tuition remission.

ECEE hires Learning Assistants (LAs, undergraduates) and Graduate Learning Assistants (GLAs, graduate students) to assist with the majority of classroom support.

  • GLAs are graduate students who can work up to 20 hours per week during fall and spring terms without any tuition waiver. Please note some department roles limit GLAs to 5 or 10 hours per week. 
  • GLAs are available for responsibilities such as additional office hour coverage, holding course workshops and homework review sessions for our on-campus courses. For the MS-EE on Coursera program, GLAs help solve student issues, answer student questions and beta-test Coursera courses. 
  • All ECEE graduate-level students are eligible to apply for this role, though this does not guarantee being hired. The application information is emailed to all active students each Fall/Spring semester. 

Our Graduate School has additional funding information that may be helpful to you in determining how to fund your degree. You can explore on-campus employment opportunities.

Switching Between Traditional MS and PMP

You may apply to switch your master’s degree program (traditional MS to PMP or vice-versa) once during your tenure as a student. This means you must complete one semester in your program of entry with a GPA of 3.0 or higher and have permission from your advisor and the advisor of the program you wish to switch into (faculty advisors are assigned only two or three weeks prior to semester start). You may not switch during the term you plan to graduate. Your last term officially begins after census date of the prior term. All requests to switch must be received at least one week before the next semester begins.