Admission Requirements
A bachelor’s degree in civil engineering or other equivalent engineering/technology degree is the minimum requirement. Non-engineering bachelor’s degree may be accepted for admission into the CE Master’s program, provided appropriate deficiency course requirements will be completed prior to completion of the PhD degree.
An undergraduate GPA above 3.0 (or an equivalent scale for accredited international programs) is required. Completion of the Graduate Records Examination (GRE) is a requirement, with a preferred score of 80th percentile in the Quantitative section and can be waived for domestic applicants from K-State or those with an undergraduate degree from an ABET accredited institution. For international applicants, the minimum English language proficiency test requirements from the K-State graduate school should be met, more information can be found here: https://www.k-state.edu/grad/admissions/application-process/.
Graduation Requirements
Thesis Requirements:
A master’s thesis presents the results of an original investigation of a problem or topic approved by the candidate’s supervisory committee. Its purpose is to demonstrate the candidate’s ability to conduct original research of a type appropriate to the academic discipline, to analyze the information obtained from the research, and to present the results in a form acceptable to the supervisory committee.
Report Requirements:
A master’s report is generally shorter than a thesis, and it may present the results of a more limited original investigation. Alternatively, it may review the state of a particular scholarly or scientific problem, or especially in the case of professional programs or applied disciplines it may describe a project appropriate to the discipline.
Students who pursue a report or thesis option should follow the guidelines from the K-State graduate school and comply with the deadlines for the respective semester when the student intends to graduate.
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