Computer Engineering, BS with grad track option leading to Computer Engineering, MS

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering offers a grad track option for existing UNT undergraduate students majoring in computer engineering.

This grad track option is a BS to MS accelerated program for computer science and computer engineering undergraduate students. The student can take a maximum of 9 credit hours of graduate courses while completing the BS degree. These credits will be counted first toward the BS degree and then, upon graduation, be transferred to the MS degree.

The following is the step-by-step process:

A student applies for the grad track option in the junior year (having completed at least 75 credit hours with a GPA of 3.5 or higher).
After the application is approved and the student has completed at least 90 credit hours, the student can start taking graduate courses that are approved for the grad track option as CSE electives for the BS degree requirements. For the graduate courses to be counted toward the MS degree later, the student should earn a grade of B or higher for the courses.
The student applies to the Toulouse Graduate School within the first semester of the senior year. Once the student satisfies all course work for the BS degree and having maintained a 3.5 or higher GPA, the student will submit three recommendation letters from faculty members and a statement of purpose to be considered for entry into the MS program.
The student must enroll in graduate school in the long semester after finishing his/her BS degree and should take the remaining graduate courses in the following year(s) to complete his/her MS degree. If the student does not enroll in graduate school in the long semester after finishing his/her BS degree, those graduate course credit hours will no longer be counted for the MS degree, even if the student comes back for graduate school in the future.

Program policies

After completing at least 90 credit hours, the student can start taking the accepted graduate courses as technical electives for the BS degree. If the student wants to take other graduate courses for grad track credits, he or she will need to obtain approvals from both the undergraduate and graduate CSE coordinators. For these graduate courses to be counted for the MS degree, the student must earn a grade of B or higher for each course. Courses cross-listed as graduate/undergraduate must be taken at the graduate level to be counted for graduate credit.

Students admitted to the grad track option will be admitted into the MS program on a conditional basis. Once the student has satisfied all course work for the BS degree and maintained a 3.0 GPA or higher, he or she will be fully admitted. Undergraduate students who have been accepted to a grad track program should complete all of the bachelor’s degree requirements and graduate within 12 months of the first day of the semester for which they began taking graduate courses, or enrollment in graduate level course work will be suspended.

Program requirements

Students may choose up to 9 hours from the following list of courses:

CSCE 5050 - Applications of Cryptography
CSCE 5200 - Information Retrieval and Web Search
CSCE 5210 - Artificial Intelligence
CSCE 5215 - Machine Learning
CSCE 5220 - Computer Graphics
CSCE 5250 - Introduction to Game Programming
CSCE 5255 - Programming Math and Physics for Games
CSCE 5260 - 3D Game Programming
CSCE 5265 - Advanced Topics in Game Development
CSCE 5290 - Natural Language Processing
CSCE 5350 - Fundamentals of Database Systems
CSCE 5380 - Data Mining
CSCE 5400 - Automata Theory
CSCE 5430 - Software Engineering
CSCE 5450 - Programming Languages
CSCE 5510 - Wireless Communications
CSCE 5520 - Wireless Networks and Protocols
CSCE 5550 - Introduction to Computer Security
CSCE 5555 - Computer Forensics
CSCE 5560 - Secure Electronic Commerce
CSCE 5585 - Computer Networks
CSCE 5610 - Computer System Architecture
CSCE 5620 - Real-Time Operating Systems
CSCE 5640 - Operating System Design
CSCE 5650 - Compiler Design
CSCE 5655 - Principles of Compiler Optimization
CSCE 5730 - Digital CMOS VLSI Design
CSCE 5810 - Biocomputing
CSCE 5820 - Computational Epidemiology
Students must also complete all remaining courses required for the Computer Engineering, BS