Although this is an individualized program, there will be numerous opportunities for participants to interact. Careful advising and course planning with the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies and the Undergraduate Academic Advisor so that you can begin serious graduate course work in your fourth year of study at Georgia Tech. Meeting with the Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, who will help pair you with a faculty mentor after identifying your individual research interests. Interviewing various faculty members to select the one you would like to work with. In the fifth year of study, you may be supported as a graduate research assistant or a graduate teaching assistant and receive the appropriate tuition reduction and assistantship stipends.
Course work toward the graduate degree is very flexible.
You combine courses of interest into a program of study. Your undergraduate research might evolve into a master's thesis. If so, nine credits for the thesis can be used toward the master's degree. You may also choose a nonthesis option. You need to maintain a grade point average of 3.0 or higher to remain in the program.