|
2025-26 Undergraduate Catalog
Health Informatics, BS with grad track option leading to Health Informatics, MS
|
|
The Department of Information Science offers a grad track option for existing UNT undergraduate students pursuing the Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics degree. In this grad track option, students can take a maximum of 9 credit hours of graduate courses while completing the Health Informatics, BS. These credits will be counted toward first the BS degree and then the Master of Science in Health Informatics.
Prior to registering for the specified graduate courses, the student must have been admitted to the grad track option and obtained approvals from the appropriate undergraduate and/or graduate advisors.
Admission requirements and program policies
Admission requirements
- A student may apply for the grad track option during their junior year (and must have completed at least 75 credit hours at the time of application to grad track).
- A minimum of 3.5 cumulative GPA is required at the time of application submission.
- The student will provide two recommendation forms completed by UNT faculty members (one of whom must be from the Department of Information Science) who can evaluate the student’s ability to complete graduate-level work.
- The application will be reviewed by the College of Information admissions and advising student support services office and the undergraduate and graduate advisors.
- Admission to the MS in Health Informatics program will require the completion of the Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics. Conditional admission may be granted after successfully completing 90 credit hours.
- Once approved, the student must apply to the Toulouse Graduate School within the first semester of the senior year.
Program policies
- After completing 90 credit hours, the student can start taking the graduate courses as grad track electives for the health informatics degree requirement. The accepted graduate courses for the HI grad track are listed below. If the student wants to take other graduate courses for the grad track credits, he/she needs to obtain approvals from the Information Science department chair, or the graduate faculty advisor, and the director or assistant director of the College of Information (COI) advising and admissions student support services office. For these graduate courses to be counted toward requirements for the MS degree, the student should earn a B or above in the approved graduate courses.
- The 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 or higher GPA on the specified graduate courses, he/she will be fully admitted to the MS program.
- Undergraduate students who have been accepted to a grad track option should complete all of their bachelor’s degree requirements and graduate within 12 months of the first day of the semester in which they start taking graduate courses, or enrollment in graduate-level course work will be suspended.
- The student must enroll in graduate school in the next long semester after finishing his/her BS degree and should take the remaining graduate courses in the following 12 months to complete his/her MS degree. If the student does not enroll in graduate school in the next long semester after finishing his/her BS degree, those graduate course credit hours taken as part of grad track will not be applied to the MS degree, even if the student comes back for graduate school in the future.
|
|
|
|