Can physical science majors go to grad school for engineering?

GLOBALTRAVELER
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:55:12 +0000

It all depends on:

1) the selected graduate engineering program/major
2) the selected school’s ABET requirement
3) how many undergraduate prerequisites did you complete before applying

Graduate programs like systems engineering really require just the calculus, statistics and a few computer science courses to get in. EE programs will want the circuits courses, etc.

Some schools will without bending require a ABET undergraduate engineering degree for admission (U-Arkansas comes to mind). Some schools will just award non-ABET undegrads a M.S. degree while the ABET grads will get a M.S. Engineering degree (Purdue, Michigan does this). Some schools allow physical and mathematical science students in (U-Wisconsin).

For the record, I was a math major as a undergrad and did systems engineering in grad school.