Beginning work for the Master's Degree as an Undergraduate

Rutgers Undergraduates showing exceptional promise may begin their MS work before obtaining their BS degree. In this way, graduate courses may be taken at the undergraduate tuition. Furthermore, students showing adequate performance in graduate courses as an undergraduate may be admitted to the MS without being required to take the GRE. In order to be counted towards the MS degree, courses taken by undergraduates must not be used to satisfy the BS requirements. These courses taken before matriculation as a graduate student must then be transferred to the graduate transcript according to the rules for the transfer of credits from other universities.

Undergraduates interested in pursuing this opportunity should consult with the director of the undergraduate program in Statistics and Biostatistics.

Students are encouraged to use Summer school, especially following the junior and senior years, to ensure their courses are completed on schedule. Many core MS courses are offered over the summer. Summer school tuition rates are discounted from regular undergraduate tuition rates and some courses are offered during the evening.

Undergraduates may also, under certain conditions, take courses offered by the Graduate Programs in Statistics and Biostatistics, even when no arrangement for transition to the MS program has been made. Interested students should first obtain the form from the graduate school. Bring the form to the graduate director for approval. The graduate director will then contact the graduate school for the appropriate administrator's approval. This arrangement will generally only be approved for students whose mathematics and statistics course grades are all B or better.

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