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Full-time students have the option of applying for admission into the
five-year combined Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering/Master of Science
in Chemical Engineering program.
The standard senior-year undergraduate chemical engineering
curriculum generally requiring students to enroll in 15 or 16 undergraduate credits
each semester. Therefore, it will be necessary for students interested in the BS/MS
program to plan ahead by reducing the number of senior-year undergraduate
courses they will need to take through the use of AP credit, transfer credit or
academic overloads generally during the first three years of undergraduate
study. In this manner a student would not need to enroll in more than 18 credits (12
undergraduate credits + 6 graduate credits) each semester of their senior year.
Typical Five-Year Plan
- Earn a BSChE degree after four years
of study and complete the 30-credit requirement for the MSChE degree
(initiated during the student's fourth year) with one additional year of work.
All graduate courses must be taken at Villanova University.
- Complete 12 credits of graduate study (6 credits per semester) during
the senior year and complete the remaining 18 credits of graduate study over
the 12-month period following the senior year. As permission for
undergraduates to take graduate courses normally requires a cumulative
undergraduate GPA of 3.00 or higher, this is generally considered the
minimum undergraduate GPA required for consideration for admission into
the combined BS/MS Program. Such a GPA guarantees neither admission into the program nor
consideration for a merit-based tuition scholarship.
- Opt for either a thesis track program or a non-thesis track program.
If the student chooses the thesis-track program, the student may perform a
(Master's thesis) research project in the same research area as their
undergraduate (senior) chemical engineering research project, or may
initiate a completely different project with the same or a different
research advisor.
Application Timeline
Students interested in participating in the BS/MS Program should contact the
Department of Chemical Engineering Graduate Program Advisor (currently
Dr. Vito Punzi) as early as possible during their undergraduate studies at Villanova. An
interested student would normally submit a letter of intent indicating an
interest in participating in the BS/MS Program to the Engineering Chair during the
Spring semester of their junior year (near the time the student would normally
seek pre-registration advisement for their undergraduate senior year).
An
individual graduate program course of study will be established, subsequent to
advisement by the Departmental Graduate Program Advisor,
based on the interests and career goals of the student, and the Department's
anticipated graduate course offerings during the period in which the student
would be enrolled in the graduate program. Students would then formally apply to
the BS/MS Program by submitting a
Graduate Application late in the
Fall
semester or early in Spring semester of their senior year.
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Tuition Scholarship
The Department of Chemical Engineering has established as a high priority of its
graduate program the allocation of a tuition scholarship to one fifth-year
student in the BS/MS program. The scholarship covers
tuition and fees during the fifth year in return for 12 hours of work per week
devoted to Department activities, such as homework grading and research.
Students who wish to be considered for a tuition scholarship are
expected to submit a formal application for the graduate program by the middle
of the Fall semester of their senior year. Awardees will be notified during the
Spring semester of their senior year.
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