Students pursuing advanced degrees are expected to have completed a B.S. in an accredited biological and agricultural engineering or other engineering discipline. Options are available through the College of Engineering's interdepartmental program for students who do not have a B.S. degree in engineering. The M.S. requires 24 hours of approved graduate course work and six hours of thesis credit. Applicants who lack these qualifications may, under special circumstances, be admitted on a provisional or probationary basis. Doctoral students may compete Board of Regents' Graduate Fellowships .
Applications are available through the department.
The department has more than 16,000 square feet of laboratory and shop space. A central computing unit with work stations, plotters, and printers is connected to most offices and laboratories. Fully equipped shops and personnel are available for fabricating a wide range of laboratory and field equipment. A complete muscle foods facility forms the nucleus for food engineering and processing research. Other laboratories are equipped for studies in climatology, machine-vision, neural networks, and virtual reality.