The Grad Track Pathway in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering offers early provisional admission to the master’s or PhD degree program to exceptional undergraduate students and is designed for these students to earn coursework credit towards their master’s or PhD degree while completing their bachelor’s degree in the same discipline. In this program, a student can achieve both bachelor’s and master’s or PhD degrees faster than if pursuing the degrees separately. The student will first earn a bachelor’s degree and then a master’s or PhD degree. The student must complete the bachelor’s degree and meet the admission requirements for the graduate program before being admitted to the master’s or PhD program.

Degree programs

• Mechanical Engineering
• Aerospace Engineering
• Manufacturing Engineering

Benefits of the program

• Six credit hours of 5000-level or 6000-level Mech Eng or Aero Eng graduate coursework may be transferred from the Missouri S&T bachelor’s degree to the associated thesis master’s degree, non-thesis master’s degree, or PhD degree.
• Graduate coursework taken for Grad Track Pathway will be assessed at undergraduate tuition rates.
• Additional graduate coursework may be taken by applying for dual undergraduate/graduate enrollment.

Admissions criteria

The minimum requirements for eligibility to the Grad Track Pathway in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are:

For the master’s degree program

• Must be one year from the graduation of their bachelor’s degree (excluding the semester they are currently enrolled).
• Must have a 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA.
• Must have completed 18 credit hours of Mech Eng/Aero Eng courses.
• Must have a 3.5 minimum GPA in the Mech Eng/Aero Eng courses

For the PhD degree program

• Must be one year from the graduation of their bachelor’s degree (excluding the semester they are currently enrolled).
• Must have a 3.5 minimum cumulative GPA.
• Must have completed 18 credit hours of Mech Eng/Aero Eng courses.
• Must have a 3.75 minimum GPA in the Mech Eng/Aero Eng courses

How to apply

1. Meet with your undergraduate advisor to plan the application.
2. Submit an official application at https://connect.mst.edu/apply. Make sure to select the Graduate Track Pathway (GTP) program in the application.
3. If admitted, you will receive an email notification of your admission, with a link to the form for designating shared credit courses.
4. Submit the form to designate which courses you want to use for shared credit. This form will be sent to your advisor, the department chair/designee, and the vice provost of graduate education/designee for approval.

Questions

For more information about the program, please see theGrad Track Pathway Admission and Standards. If you have questions, please contact Dr. Xiaodong Yang, the Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, or your undergraduate advisor.