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Accelerated Masters Program

Exceptionally promising UCI undergraduate Engineering students with a minimum cumulative 3.5 GPA may, during their junior or senior year, may apply for streamlined admission into an M.S. program within The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Streamlined admission would allow a student to petition for exemption from UCI's GRE requirement for graduate school admission. This exception applies only to current UCI undergraduate engineering students applying for admission to one of the M.S. programs in the UCI Henry Samueli School of Engineering.

The student would request GRE exemption at the time of applying. Streamlined admission applicants would otherwise and in all other ways be evaluated in the same manner as other applicants to the School's graduate programs.

Students offered admission under the accelerated procedures may, upon completion of the bachelor's degree and matriculation into a graduate program, petition to transfer up to 18 units of graduate-level course work completed in excess of requirements for the bachelor's degree.

Students who wish to apply for early admission to the Ph.D. program may do so in their senior year but must take the GRE prior to admission.

Undergraduate streamlined admission students admitted to an M.S. or Ph.D. program within The Henry Samueli School of Engineering may also petition their department to use up to eight units of 199 Individual Study to meet undergraduate degree requirements, either as design units or as preliminary preparation for their master's thesis work.