The request to establish a Bachelors-Masters Program

Date: June 11, 2013
To: The Graduate School
From: Office of Academic Affairs
Approved On: May 9, 2013
Approved by: Undergraduate Course and Curriculum CommitteeGraduate Council
Implementation Date: Fall 2013

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Bachelors-Masters Program. Exceptional high school and undergraduate students may be accepted into a Bachelors-Masters Program whereby they simultaneously pursue the baccalaureate and master’s degrees and gain invaluable mentoring and research experience along the way. The Bachelors-Masters Program may also be accelerated in which up to 12 hours earned at the graduate level may be substituted (“double counted”) for required undergraduate hours. A list of Bachelors-Masters Programs may be found online at http://graduateschool.uncc.edu.

In those programs offering this option, an applicant may be accepted to the Pre-Bachelors-Masters Program directly from high school with a minimum GPA >=3.75 (on a 4.0 scale) and a minimum score of 1700 on the SAT. Enrolled students will apply for full admission to the Bachelors-Masters Program in the spring semester of their freshmen year. They must submit an online application for graduate admission and Statement of Purpose as well as three (3) strong recommendations in support of the application; at least one recommendation must be provided by a high school teachers and another from a UNC Charlotte faculty member who taught the applicant in the fall semester. The application and supporting documents must be submitted to the Graduate Admissions Office by March 15th of the freshman year. Enrollment will be based on program capacity, and certain programs may have more stringent admission policies.

NOTE: Students admitted to a Bachelors-Masters Program (undergraduate + graduate degrees) are not eligible to hold a graduate assistantship until their final year of study when they are only taking graduate courses. In the Bachelors-Masters of study when only graduate courses are taken, students will be considered “graduate” students and will be charged graduate tuition and fees.