Dr. Kevin Riggs Designed primarily for students who want a strong background in liberal arts before beginning intensive training in an engineering curriculum, this program includes the usual preparatory courses in verbal skills, mathematics, and physical sciences, accompanied by less specific social sciences and humanities requirements of modern engineering curricula. Pre-engineering students are advised individually to fit their Stetson educations with the requirements of the branch of engineering in which they wish to specialize and with the requirements of the school to which they will transfer. Most University general education requirements are waived. Pre-engineers are advised to transfer to their engineering schools after completion of their first or second year at Stetson.
Engineering students seeking a stronger liberal arts base enter the dual program.
In this program, students spend three years at Stetson under the aegis of the science department most closely allied to the engineering field of their choice. They spend the next two years at an accredited engineering school of their choice. Upon receiving an engineering degree from that university, they are awarded a B.A. or B.S. degree from Stetson. Stetson currently has formal dual degree agreements with the University of Florida, the University of Miami, and Washington University at St. Louis. However, the student is free to complete the dual degree program at any accredited engineering school such as Georgia Tech or Florida State University.