This program allows students who have the flexibility in their senior year schedule to take a combination of undergraduate and graduate level courses. Such a student would earn their undergraduate degree in May and would only need twenty-one additional graduate credit hours to finish their MA degree the following year. Students who have advanced placement credit from high school or who have transferred into UNCG may find themselves in a situation where they have the course flexibility their senior year to take a combination of graduate and undergraduate courses. Students in other fields such as political science and geography could become an accelerated student in economics by taking the appropriate required economics courses and begin their graduate career during their senior year.
Careful planning is required to make such an accelerated program work.
Students who have an undergraduate scholarship can use this money during their senior year. Accelerated students are eligible for summer school funding prior to entering the graduate program and graduate assistantship money in the fifth year. Accelerated students are not required to enter the MA program. A student may elect to use their extra graduate coursework during their senior year to apply to other graduate programs or to use the statistical training to enter the job market with a competitive edge.