Admission to the College of Engineering

At the end of every semester, the records of all freshmen and sophomore engineering students will be reviewed to determine if they are admissible.

Students are admitted to the College of Engineering as soon as they have completed the required core courses and have met specific GPA requirements for their declared major. All eligible students are automatically review once they have:

• completed the required courses
• declared a degree granting Engineering major
• and achieved a specific grade point average within the major.

Students who major is listed as Engineering No-Preference will not be admitted until they declare a degree-granting major. In some cases, an application to the College may be necessary.

Juniors and seniors who have a declared major outside the College of Engineering and wish to change to Engineering should submit an application which can be found by clicking here.

You must be admitted to a degree-granting major by the time you have achieved 56 credits.  If you are admitted to an engineering major and wish to change to another engineering major, you will need to submit an application and will be reviewed at the end of that semester.  Admitted students are able to begin taking major courses immediately upon admission (provided all prerequisites have been satisfied).

Freshmen and sophomore students are always in one of two categories:

1.  Admitted - in a degree-granting major and have been admitted to the college.
2. Continuing - have not yet been admitted to the college.

After admission decisions have been made at the end of each semester, all applicants will receive a message from the Office of the Registrar's Confidential Message either admitting your to a major, denying you admission to the college, or explaining the remaining deficiencies you must complete to gain admission to the college.  (note: We will no longer conduct mid-term admission reviews.)

Admission to the College of Engineering is based on a student's combined grade point average. Your combination grade point average is calculated as follows:

1. the cumulative grade point average of all courses taken added to
2. the technical grade point average based on all technical classes taken at MSU (generally those in the College of Engineering and the College of Natural Science), then divided by 2.

Courses Required for College of Engineering Admission

• Math 132 and Math 133. Students must have a minimum 2.0 grade point average or higher in all mathematics courses completed at the time of admission (this does not include MTH 1825).
• Chemistry 141 or 151 for all majors except Computer Science
• Physics 183 or 183B
• Engineering 100 and Engineering 102. Students in Computer Engineering and Computer Science are required to take EGR 100 only.

• Computer Science 231 for Computer Engineering and Computer Science majors only.

Earned a minimum number of MSU and technical credits:

• Engineering freshmen and sophomores must have completed at least 12 MSU credits, at least six of them from technical courses.
• Junior and senior applicants with a current major in a college outside of Engineering must have completed a minimum of 12 MSU credits, at least 10 of then from technical courses.

Achieved the necessary GPA requirements:

• There are specific GPA requirements that you need to meet for admission to each Engineering program. Admission is based on a combined cumulative/technical grade point average calculation, please click here for more information.
• Students attaining the required GPAs are guaranteed admission.  In certain majors, additional students may be considered for admission. on a space available basis.
• The average combined cumulative/technical GPA required for upper school admission to each degree program changes from year to year depending on the demand for that program

Academic Warning

Please click here to read the College of Engineering's academic warning policies.