University Requirements

Completion of Minimum University Requirements for an Undergraduate Baccalaureate Degree .

• Minimum 120 credits and minimum GPA of 2.0
• Completion of 45 upper-level credits, residence requirement, Writing Intensive requirement, and General Education requirement

Major Requirements

• Minimum 42 credits, including a minimum of 15 upper-level credits in mathematics, science, engineering or technology
• Minimum GPA of 2.5
• Minimum grade of ‘C’ in courses applied to the major

Course Requirements

The coursework for the individualized degree:

• differs substantially from other majors offered at UMBC
• contains a maximum of 21 credits from any one discipline
• contains a maximum of 4 courses of transfer credit
• contains a maximum of 3 courses that are also counted as degree requirements towards another major
• 30 credits in math, science, engineering or technology on the transcript; 15 of these 30 must be in the proposal and at the 300- and 400-level
• one of two degree mentors must be from math, science, engineering or technology
• includes all courses in our core curriculum

Accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s Programs

Qualified students may apply to an accelerated program, which allows them to share courses between a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. Students take graduate courses as undergraduate students and later apply those courses to master’s degrees. An undergraduate may apply to participate in an accelerated program even if the desired graduate program is in a department other than the one in which the student is majoring. More information is available from the Graduate School website: https://gradschool.umbc.edu/admissions/nontraditional/accelerated/