That will help us then determine what school, what university is going to be offering the degree. That would not be appropriate. My follow up question would therefore be, what happens when we have a student who meets the minimum requirements, who then asks various professors to become his or her advisor, and all of them say no. Maybe that student would show up on paper to look like an acceptable applicant, but then it turns out that there is something about the student that just does not seem right to graduate. That would depend on how good a job we do on providing information to the community, as to whom is willing to advise within our college.
Students have trouble getting advisors now.
Graduate students not in this degree have trouble, yet they are qualified for admission. We try to work with that situation. On the other hand, one of the advantages of this program is that there the faculties at the three colleges of engineering available for the purpose of finding an advisor. It broadens the likelihood that the student, although he or she might have some quirk that causes no ASU faculty to want to be their advisor, well, there is the UofA faculty and the NAU faculty. There are a substantial number of people with a lot of different attitudes and interests between the three campuses.