Accelerated Graduate Enrollment Program (AGRADE)
From the 2008 - 2010 Graduate Bulletin:
Several Colleges have established an accelerated combined undergraduate and graduate program (AGRADE) in which highly qualified seniors in the college may enroll simultaneously in some undergraduate and graduate programs of the College. A maximum of fifteen credits may be applied towards both undergraduate and graduate degrees in a student's major field if that program is an AGRADE participant. Those who elect the AGRADE program may expect to complete the Bachelor's and Master's degrees in five years of full-time study.
AGRADE Credits: Students may elect a minimum of three and a maximum of fifteen AGRADE credits. These will be used to complete the baccalaureate degree as well as to serve as the beginning of graduate study. Upon formal admission to a master's program, AGRADE credits are transferred as if they were graduate credits transferred from a graduate program at another university. The remaining graduate credits required for the master's degree will be earned in the conventional manner following formal admission to the graduate program.
Eligibility: AGRADE applicants must have an outstanding overall g.p.a. and have performed at a superior level in their major, as determined by the major department. The earliest date by which a student may apply for the AGRADE program is during the semester in which he/she completes ninety credits toward the undergraduate degree.
Application: A student seeking AGRADE status should present to the Graduate Admissions Committee of his/her major department all of the materials which that department requires for normal admission (except the GRE; where required, the GRE scores should be forwarded at the normal point in the formal graduate admission process).
Admission and program requirements are described in the College of Engineering, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and College of Nursing sections of this bulletin and available in their graduate offices.
Current majors with AGRADE opportunities:
- Anthropology
- Biological Sciences
- Biomedical Physics
- Classics
- Computer Science
- Criminal Justice
- Economics
- Engineering
- English
- German
- History
- Mathematics
- Nutrition & Food Science
- Political Science
- Public Affairs
- Sociology
Establishment of a University-Wide AGRADE Program, approved April, 2009