Accelerated (4+1) Graduate Program (BIS)

Program description, goals, and benefits

The Accelerated (4+1) 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 between 9 credits of graduate course work that will count towards undergraduate and graduate program requirements.

Specific Undergraduate and Graduate Programs for Accelerated Requirements

The Accelerated programs are specifically for the MBA General Studies, Masters of Science in Analytics and Applied AI, or Information Systems, or Health Informatics and Information Management graduate programs in the College of Business and Information Systems.

Undergraduate students in:

• BBA, Business Technology Specialization would select MS Information System program.
• BBA (all specializations) would select MBA General Management program.
• BS Computer Information Systems would select either MS Analytics and Applied AI or MS Information Systems program.
• Health Informatics and Information Management would select the MSHIIM program.

Admission requirements

Students in the identified majors may be admitted to the Accelerated 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:

• Students must have 90 credits completed by the time they enroll in graduate coursework

• Students must have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher

Application requirements

An Accelerated (4+1) Graduate application is available with the Registrar’s Office Forms in the Knowledge Base. Students may apply in the term in which they will have completed at least 90 credits, typically in their junior year. Students must consult with their undergraduate academic advisor before completing the application.