
All MS students in the AE School pursue either a Non-Thesis or a Thesis degree, both of which require the completion of 33 credit-hours of coursework and research.
The chart and explanations, below, summarize the overall distribution of credit-hours that all MSAE students must follow.
MS Credit-hour Requirements | MS without Thesis (33 cr. hr. total) |
MS with Thesis (33 cr. hr. total) |
---|---|---|
AE Graduate Seminar | AE 8002* | AE8002* |
Formal Courses (not including thesis, research AE 8900) |
30 | 24 |
|
12 | 9 |
|
6 | 6 |
|
6 | 3 |
|
21 | 15 |
Research Coursework | 3 (AE 8900) |
9 (AE 7000) |
NOTE:
The AE School does not require its grad students take specific classes. Graduate students are expected work with their advisors to map out a rigorous and individualized educational program that includes research in one or more of the eight multidisciplinary research disciplines and meets the following requirements:
- AE8002 (1 credit-hour. P/F) is required during your first year in residence in the graduate program at Georgia Tech but it does not count toward the 33 credit-hours needed for your degree. This requirement is waived for Distance Learning students and all students who started the program before the Fall 2018 semester.
- Completion of at least six (6) credit-hours of mathematics; No more than nine (9) credit-hours may come from the Senior Undergraduate (4000) course level;
- Transfer students may bring no more than six (6) credit-hours from an accredited school in US or Canada. All transfer credit award decisions will be made by the Graduate Curriculum Committee.
- Graduate-level courses may be chosen from the current Georgia Tech course catalog, as well as from the appropriate Special Topics courses listed on the Registration page.
The preceding is a brief summary of the requirements and is not meant to cover all aspects of the curriculum. Students should visit the AE Graduate Handbook for a complete description of the requirements for the MSAE degree.
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