Requirements for the Bachelor of Science Degree/Master of Science Degree Accelerated Program
The Accelerated BE/MS program is designed to allow undergraduate students in Engineering Science (ESG), Engineering Chemistry (ECM), in good academic standing with a GPA of 3.0 and above, to apply at the end of their junior year for admission to this special program, which leads to a Bachelor of Engineering or Bachelor of Science degree at the end of the fourth yearand a Master of Science degree at the end of the fifth year. This is achieved by allowing undergraduate students in the program to take up to two graduate courses as their undergraduate technical electives. These graduate courses will also be counted towards their Master's degree. According to Graduate School policy, up to 6 credits taken as an undergraduate senior student may be counted for both degrees. As a result, students can complete both degrees in five years (i.e., just one extra year or two semesters for the MS)
Engineering Science students in the junior undergraduate year take ESM 455, which is normally taken in the senior year, instead of ESM 335. In the senior year, a student takes ESM 513, to use in lieu of ESM 335, in the fall and another graduate course in the spring. For details of the B.E./ M.S. program, please see the graduate program coordinator in the department.
Students are not allowed to enroll in ESM 513 if they have already taken ESM 335. Then that student will be required to replace ESM 513 with another ESM course to fulfill the requirement to complete the PhD program.
As an undergraduate, students will be charged tuition at the undergraduate rate for both graduate and undergraduate courses. Once the graduate career begins in the 5th year of the program, the student will be subject to graduate tuition, fees and Graduate School regulations. Students will be permitted to live in Graduate Housing however they will no longer be eligible for Undergraduate Financial Aid.
Students who transfer to Stony Brook must complete at least one semester at Stony Brook before they will be considered for admission to the five-year BE-BS/MS program and decisions will be made on a case-by-case basis to ensure they meet all other requirements to qualify for the combined degree program.
For the BE/MS accelerated program, students must complete the undergraduate degree in Engineering Science or Engineering Chemistry in their senior year along with 6 credits of graduate coursework and then complete the rest of the 24 credits to fulfill the 30 credits graduate course requirement as a Non-Thesis MS or Thesis MS as in the requirements below to earn the accelerated MS degree in Materials Science and Engineering.