Alumni who wish to pursue an Illinois Tech master's degree after attaining their Illinois Tech bachelor's degree (within three years of conferral) may apply to a master's degree with advanced standing. Through the Accelerated Master's Program (AMP-AS), students may share up to nine credit hours of applicable undergraduate coursework with their Illinois Tech master's degree, pending the approval of the graduate program. For more information, please see the Transfer Credit section of this catalog.

Undergraduate students who wish to pursue an Accelerated Master's Program (AMP-CT) concurrently with the bachelor's degree in-progress will follow the graduate admission and shared credit policies for co-terminal studies.

Accelerated Master's Shared Credit Form

In the first semester of graduate enrollment, the student is required to file an eForm through Graduate Degree Works to request internal transfer credit from the undergraduate degree program course history. Courses must meet the explicit degree requirements, as displayed in the Degree Works Audit Worksheet, and have a minimum earned grade of "C". Courses earned with an "S" grade may only be considered for 594 project research credit.

Co-Terminal Eligibility and Advising

Co-terminal degrees can be pre-determined degree pairings, or students may choose to work with academic advisers to identify alternate bachelor's and master's degree pairings, pending the approval of the prospective graduate program and the student's undergraduate program. 

Co-Terminal Shared and Non-Shared Credit Form

Co-terminal students have a mandatory academic advising session that they must schedule with their co-terminal adviser during the first semester of co-terminal enrollment. In order to ensure compliance, a Graduate Co-terminal Hold is placed on the student's record. The adviser and student will review the Graduate Degree Works Worksheet and identify which courses can be shared between the undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The adviser will also make recommendations about other non-shared courses for exclusive graduate program use. The student may also consider if some 500-level courses should be designated for exclusive undergraduate program use.

To declare the courses to be completed during the co-terminal program, the student should select the eForms tab in Graduate Degree Works and submit the Co-Terminal Shared and Non-Shared Credit form. The form must be fully approved by the co-terminal adviser, academic unit approver, and the Office of Academic Affairs. The GC (Graduate Co-terminal) Shared Credit Hold will be lifted by the Office of Academic Affairs once the selected courses are fully approved to allow student registration.

Once approved, in progress-courses may not display in the student's Graduate Degree Works Worksheet. Once the course is completed, a graduate level is added to the course that allows the semester and cumulative graduate GPA to be calculated and the graduate transcript and degree audit to be created.

Students are expected to follow the approved courses from the eForms declaration; however, co-terminal students in a paired co-terminal program may request changes to their co-terminal non-shared and shared credit by filing an eForm Course Substitution and Exception request articulating the original approved course and the desired course replacement. Approval of a requested substitution is at the discretion of the co-terminal adviser and academic unit approver, with final approval by the Office of Academic Affairs. As grades are entered each semester, all approved shared credits and all non-shared 500-level courses (not declared as exclusive for undergraduate program use) will be converted to a graduate-level. 

NOTE: Co-Terminal students enrolled in unpaired degree programs (that is, not pre-determined pairings) must propose shared courses that are concordant with program requirements.