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Students writing a thesis may count up to nine hours of upper-division undergraduate courses toward the degree requirements with no more than six hours in either the major or the minor. Students writing a Graduate School Report may count up to 6 hours of upper-division undergraduate coursework, while students in the No Thesis/Departmental Report or No Thesis/No Report options may count only 3 hours of upper-division undergraduate coursework toward the MS degree. As of fall 2008, grades in upper division undergraduate courses count in the graduate GPA.
Continuous Registration - Thesis, Report, or Dissertation
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As soon as there is room in your schedule of courses and you begin work on the thesis, report, or dissertation, the student should begin registering for research hours CE 698 (thesis), CE 398D (departmental report), or CE 397D (dissertation research).
An MS student taking the thesis option would register for the two-course sequence of , starting with CE 698A the first semester of research, and subsequently CE 698B. CE 698B is required in the semester of graduation. CE 698B may be repeated until the thesis is complete.
Students in the Masters' Departmental Report option generally register for 398D in their final semester.
PhD students will register for 397D (or 697D) Dissertation Research until they are officially admitted to candidacy. Once admitted to candidacy they are required to be registered in CE 399W DISSERTATION (or 699W, or 999W) in the Fall and Spring semesters until graduation. CE X99W Dissertation is required registration in the final semester.
Students should plan to register for 9 hours in Fall and Spring semesters, and 3 hours in Summer. If you have been advised to register in more than these hours, please consult the Graduate Coordinator.
-Thesis, report and dissertation are taken on a Credit/No Credit basis.
-Students must maintain continuous registration as stated above every long semester until graduation. Registration during the summers is not required if you are away from campus, have no contact with the university during that period, and are not appointed as a GRA/TA.
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