The associate chair of Graduate Programs will assign you to an academic advisor during Graduate Student Orientation.

You must notify the AE School Academic Office about the change via email.

If you are a Distance Learning student, you will be assigned two advisors. The academic program manager will be your academic advisor throughout the program. In addition, during the last semester of studies, you will be assigned a faculty advisor to work on your AE 8900 research project.

The following table summarizes the requirements for the M.S. degree:

You may receive up to six (6) credit-hours of transfer credit for graduate-level courses taken at an accredited institution in the United States or Canada AND that are not used for credit toward another degree. To transfer credit, you must confer with your academic advisor to confirm that the courses to be transferred are a logical part of your program of study. If the courses are appropriate, you must provide a current transcript that verifies completion of the credit, plus necessary descriptive materials, including catalog descriptions and textbooks for evaluation of the credit.

You should be enrolled for at least three (3) credit-hours; however, it is possible to register for just 1 credit-hour during your final semester of the program. This opportunity is only given once.

Full-time students must be enrolled for at least 12 credit-hours on a letter-grade or pass-fail basis. AE graduate research assistants (GRAs) and graduate teaching assistants (GTAs) should be enrolled for 21 credit-hours (course work + research hours).

The “I” grade must be removed and changed to a letter grade by the end of the student’s next academic term. If the student is not enrolled during the next academic term, the grade “I” needs to be changed by the end of the academic year from the day the incomplete was assigned.  

If you have a grade of “F” in a required course you must schedule to re-take that course the next time it is offered. When a course in which a “D” grade was earned is repeated and a grade of “F” is earned, you must file a Petition to the Faculty to be allowed to use the “D” grade to meet graduation requirements.

Please review the signature paperwork document.

Your M.S. proposal committee must consist of three committee members: the academic advisor as the committee chairperson and two others who are well qualified in the subject matter of the research. At least two members of your committee must be general faculty from School of Aerospace Engineering and hold an earned Ph.D. degree.   

Your M.S. proposal announcement has to be submitted to AE’s Academic Office no later than two weeks prior to the date of the proposal.

Your M.S. proposal announcement is publicly announced. You must submit your announcement in a text document that includes the your name, your proposal title, the date/place/time of your proposal, a one-paragraph abstract, and a list of your committee members. You are encouraged to use this template.

1. Carefully review the information found on the Thesis & Dissertation Forms page.  Afterwards, click on the corresponding form to send an invitation to sign.
2. On DocuSign, add your signature and send the completed document in an envelope to Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies.  
   Manuals on DocuSign are elaborated here.
3. Email the Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies a final copy, certified by the thesis advisor at thesis@grad.gatech.edu 

Your M.S. defense committee must consist of three committee members: the advisor (as the committee chairperson), and two others who are well qualified in the subject matter of the thesis. At least two of the committee members must be faculty in Georgia Tech's School of Aerospace Engineering.  

Your M.S. defense announcement has to be submitted to AE’s Academic Office no later than two weeks prior to the date of your defense.

Your M.S. defense announcement is publicly announced. You are encouraged to use this template to submit your announcement in a text document that includes the following information: your name, your defense title, the date/place/time of your defense, a one-paragraph abstract, and a list of committee members.

1. Carefully review the information in Office of Graduate Studies' Thesis & Dissertation Form page. Afterwards, click on the corresponding form to send an invitation to sign.
2. On DocuSign, add your signature and send the completed document in an envelope to Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies.   Manuals on DocuSign are elaborated here.
3. Have your thesis certified by your thesis advisor at thesis@grad.gatech.edu and then email a final copy to the  Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies.

The following table summarizes the requirements for the doctoral degree: 

 AE8002 (1 credit-hour, P/F) is required during your first graduate year in residence at Georgia Tech but does not count toward the 42 credit-hours needed for the degree. 

Technical courses are any courses that are offered in the College of Engineering, the College of Science, or the College of Computing. All other courses are considered non-technical. 

You may receive up to 30 credit-hours of transfer credit for graduate-level courses taken at an accredited institution in the United States or from anywhere in the world. To transfer credit, you must confer with your academic advisor to confirm that the courses to be transferred are a logical part of your program of study. If the courses are appropriate, you must provide a current transcript that verifies completion of the credit, plus necessary descriptive materials including catalog descriptions and textbooks for evaluation of the credit.

You should be enrolled for at least three (3) credit-hours; however, it is possible to register for just one credit-hour during your final semester of the program. This opportunity is given once only.  

Full-time students must be enrolled for at least 12 credit-hours on a letter grade or pass-fail basis. AE’s graduate research assistant (GRAs) and teaching assistants (GTAs) should be enrolled in 21 credit-hours (course work + research hours).

The “I” grade must be removed and changed to a letter grade by the end of your next academic term. If you are not enrolled during the next academic term, the grade “I” needs to be changed by the end of the academic year from the day the incomplete was assigned. 

If you have a grade of “F” in a required course, you must re-take that course the next time it is offered. When a course in which a “D” grade was earned is repeated and a grade of “F” is earned, you must file a Petition to the Faculty to be allowed to use the “D” grade to meet graduation requirements.

You are generally expected to take the exams during your second year of full-time graduate study.  

If you want to be approved to take the qualifying exams, you must have taken a minimum of 12 credit-hours of coursework at Georgia Tech. In addition, you must have at least a 3.25 grade point average in coursework taken at Georgia Tech, which will count toward the 42 credit-hour Ph.D. requirement. If you retake a class, only the most recent grade will be used to compute your eligibility for the AE Ph.D. qualifying exam.

If you fail one or both examination areas, a reexamination will be automatically permitted. This reexamination must be taken the next time the exams are offered. The reexamination will be given in the same two areas as the first examination; however, if you obtained unanimous passing grades in one of the areas during the first attempt, you do not need to be reexamined in that area. A second failure of the examination will result in dismissal from the AE Ph.D. program.

Your Ph.D. proposal committee must consist of three committee members: your academic advisor (as the committee chairperson), and two others members of the Georgia Tech Academic Faculty who are well-qualified in the subject matter of your research. At least two members of the committee must be general faculty of School of Aerospace Engineering.

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Your Ph.D. proposal announcement has to be submitted to AE’s Academic Office no later than two weeks prior to the date of your proposal. 

Your Ph.D. proposal announcement is publicly announced. You are encouraged to use this template to incorporate all required information in your announcement: your name, proposal title, date/place/time of the proposal, a one-paragraph abstract, and a list of committee members.

1. Carefully review the information in Office of Graduate Studies' Thesis & Dissertation Form page.  Afterwards, click on the corresponding form to send an invitation to sign.
2. On DocuSign, add your signature and send the completed document in an envelope to Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies. Manuals on DocuSign are elaborated here. 
3. Email a final copy to the Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies, certified by the thesis advisor, to thesis@grad.gatech.edu

Your Ph.D. defense committee must consist of five committee members: the academic advisor; two general faculty from the School of Georgia Tech faculty who are well-qualified in the subject matter of the research and who hold an earned Ph.D. degree; and two others (at least one but no more than two members from outside the general faculty of School of Aerospace Engineering). Any member of this committee who is not part of the general faculty of the Institute must be approved by the AE Graduate Committee.

Two committee members may attend from a remote location.

Your Ph.D. defense announcement has to be submitted to AE’s Academic Office no later than two weeks prior to the date of defense.

Your Ph.D. defense announcement is publicly announced. You are encouraged to use this template to submit all required information to the Academic Office: your name, defense title, date/place/time, a one-paragraph abstract, and a list of committee members.

1. Carefully review the information in Office of Graduate Studies' Thesis & Dissertation Form page.  Afterwards, click on the corresponding form to send an invitation to sign.

2. On DocuSign, add your signature and send the completed document in an envelope to Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies. Manuals on DocuSign are elaborated here.

3. Email the Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies a final copy, certified by the thesis advisor at thesis@grad.gatech.edu

Each semester, the AE  School offers a range of in-demand graduate classes, composed to accommodate the anticipated demand as well as the required sequencing of different subject matter. Here is a list of the online MSAE courses that are typically taught during the Fall, Spring, and Summer semesters.

Students may petition the AE School to add an AE graduate course to the list of online MSAE courses offered during any given semester. If a sufficient number of DL master's students request the course, and the petition has been submitted in time, the AE School will make every effort to offer the course. Here's a list of DL master's courses that have been taught by petition or request.

Two weeks prior to the beginning of the semester, orientation information will be provided to you via email by your academic advisor. 

If you are taking classes on the Atlanta campus and you are seeking program status change to Distance Learning, you must contact the academic program manager via email.  

All aforementioned forms are to be submitted electronically.  

1. Carefully review the information in Office of Graduate Studies' Thesis & Dissertation Form page.  Afterwards, click on the corresponding form to send an invitation to sign.
2. On DocuSign, add your signature and send the completed document in an envelope to Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies.Manuals on DocuSign are elaborated here.
3. Email the Georgia Tech Office of Graduate Studies a final copy, certified by the thesis advisor at thesis@grad.gatech.edu

As your program nears its end, you will need to get in touch with a faculty academic advisor. Advisors for AE8900 are usually set the semester before you register for the course. At that time, you should provide the academic program manager with your resume, area of your research, and a list of AE faculty members who best match your research interests. Your faculty academic advisor will then be assigned based on this information.

Typically, you will be registering for AE 8900 during your last semester of studies. After you get in touch with your assigned faculty academic advisor, you should enter the course number (AE8900) followed by the first three letters of your faculty advisor’s last name. For example, you would enter AE8900-GUN if your advisor was Prof. Brian Gunter. 

Please notify the Academic Office when you sign up for the course by filling out the Permit Form that can be found here.

You may transfer up to 6 credit-hours of coursework that did not count towards a previous degree. To initiate the process, you must collect and send the following information to the AE graduate program manager:

• Transcript from previous institution that shows the courses did not count towards a previous degree.
• Syllabus of each course from previous institution. 
• Proof of equivalency: Get GT instructor approval that the courses are equivalent OR use the equivalency table via the following link:  https://oscar.gatech.edu/pls/bprod/wwsktrna.P_find_location

You will receive a time ticket to register for your respective graduate semester during Phase II registration. You can find the dates for Phase II registration using the following link: https://registrar.gatech.edu/calendar

You will receive a time ticket to register for your respective graduate semester during Phase II registration. You can find the dates for Phase II registration using the following link: https://registrar.gatech.edu/calendar

You should consult with the AE academic program manager prior to requesting documents through i-START. 

You should place a program extension request through i-START. 

You should place level/major change request through i-START.

International students must notify the Office of International Education (OIE) and obtain a travel signature in their passport before departure.

Yes,  you may continue to study in the United States with an expired visa; however, you will always need to have a valid, not expired i-20.

You must fill out, sign, and submit a Program of Studies form to the AE Academic Office before the last semester of your program.

You must apply to graduate through OSCAR after submitting your Program of Studies form to the AE Academic Office.  

The minimum GPA required for graduating with a master's or master's of science degree is 2.7. The minimum GPA required for graduating with a PhD degree is 3.0.  

If you want to graduate during the Summer semester, you are invited to participate in the next Fall Commencement exercises, typically held in December. You will be asked to register an email address with the Commencement Office during Summer semester to receive information after graduation.  

Yes, in order to submit your Online Application for Graduation (OAG)  including your minor, you will need to officially declare your minor. The forms are provided by the Georgia Tech Registrar.

First, you will have to cancel your online application for graduation from previous semester. Then, you have to re-apply to graduate in the upcoming semester. At the same time, you are required to re-submit a new Program of Studies to AE’s Academic Office.