Fast Track (4+1) Graduate Program (Education)

Program description, goals, and benefits

The Fast Track program at DSU provides a unique opportunity for high achieving undergraduate students to obtain both a Bachelors and a Master’s degree in five years. This is accomplished by allowing these students to take selected graduate courses during their senior year. These courses will also count towards their undergraduate course requirements thereby accelerating completion of a graduate program. In effect, students will be able to:

• Leverage their presence on campus to complete some of the requirements of the graduate program during the last semesters of their undergraduate degree, thus reducing completion time by at least one semester. In effect, obtaining a BS and a MS degree in five years.
• Save on tuition cost by taking up to 9 credits of graduate course work that will count towards undergraduate and graduate program requirements.

Specific Undergraduate and Graduate Programs for Fast Track Requirements

The Fast Track programs are specifically for the Masters of Science in Educational Technology graduate program in the College of Education.

Undergraduate students in:

• Elementary Education (ELED) would select the MSET program.
• Elementary Education/Special Educationi (ELED/SPED) would select the MSET program.
• Special Education (SPED) would select the MSET program.
• Biology Ed, Business Education, Computer Education, English (English Education Specialization), Mathematics (Intermedicate Education or Secondary Education Specialization) and Physical Education would select MSET program.

Admission requirements

Students with a identified majors may be admitted to the Fast Track program upon completion of their junior year. Accordingly, they can apply to the program in the last semester of their junior year. To be considered, the student will have to meet the following requirements:

• Have senior status by the time they commence their joint undergraduate/graduate program.
• Have a cumulative GPA of 3.00 or higher after grades have been posted from their junior year.

Application requirements

A Fast Track application can be picked up in either the College of Education and Human Performance or the Graduate Studies offices or on the graduate website. A completed application package is required once a student has earned his/her BS degree. See program information for specific application requirements.