Accelerated Masters Degree Programs: Processes for application, admission and registration

Admission:

• Student applies for graduation by completing their undergraduate audit with college advising office staff and returning the audit to the Registrars Office. The Registrar’s Office staff will update the Banner degree screen (SHADEGR) with the anticipated graduation date for the bachelor’s degree. The semester following the anticipated graduation date will be effective term of the graduate admission.

• The student’s undergraduate program and degree code will remain the same until completion of the bachelor’s degree.  For example, a student in Mechanical Engineering will maintain the undergraduate ABSEMCH-MEGJ program code until the bachelor’s degree is awarded. Tuition will be assessed at the undergraduate rate until the bachelor’s degree is awarded.

• Student completes an Application for Graduate Admission for the master's program and submits the application to the Admissions Office.

• The department approves a conditional admission to the accelerated master’s program and sends either the department detail report or copy of the application, indicating the effective term of admission, (the term following anticipated receipt of the bachelor’s degree), as well as a copy of the departmental conditional admission letter to the Office of Admissions.  Both the departmental admission form and letter should indicate that the student has been accepted to the accelerated masters program.

• Admissions staff confirms the entry term based on anticipated graduation term on SHADEGR, and admits the student to the master's for the term immediately following the anticipated graduation term. The student’s admission will be provisional pending completion of the bachelor’s degree.  Additionally, the conditional status assigned by the department is added as an attribute to the SAAADMS screen, as well as the appropriate ‘major’ code (e.g., Mechanical Engineering=MEGQ).  These attributes are added to SGASADD screen upon admission beginning from the semester of acceptance to the ADP. This attribute will allow departments to restrict courses to students in their ADP program.

• When all conditions for admission to the master’s program are met, the department notifies the Registrars Office so that the conditional attribute (COND) can be removed from the student’s record.

• The student will be considered a graduate student the first semester after the bachelor’s degree is awarded and will assessed graduate tuition from this point forward.

Registration:

• The department advisor should meet with the student to complete the ADP course approval form found on http://www.wmich.edu/registrar/pdf/forms/app_ADP.pdf . This completed form must be sent to the Registrar’s Office to become part of the student file.

• When the undergraduate student needs to enroll in 5000 or 6000 level courses for graduate credit (as listed on the ADP course approval form) the student will need to process the registration in the Registrar’s Office. The ADP course approval form must be on record in the Registrar’s Office before the student enrolls in courses for graduate credit.