Graduation Requirements

University Graduation Requirements

Students must complete all residency, curriculum, unit, GPA, and culminating experience requirements as outlined in the Graduation Requirements section of the Graduate Policies and Procedures.

Department Graduation Requirements

The MS program in Mechanical Engineering consists of 30 semester units of approved work as follows:

• 9 units of required core courses for the degree.
• 3 units of the 9-unit core satisfy the Graduate Writing Requirement (GWAR).
• 15 units of elective courses, which ordinarily must be 200-level courses in Mechanical Engineering. With approval by the Graduate Program Advisor, a student may apply up to 6 units of elective coursework from undergraduate (upper division) SJSU Mechanical Engineering electives or graduate courses from other departments, colleges, or universities.
  6 units of thesis (Plan A) or project (Plan B).