Accelerated Bachelor's to Master's Program

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You may request registration in a graduate course using the Advanced Undergraduate Status. Advanced Undergraduate Status (AUS) is a distinct status granted to eligible undergraduate seniors (90+ undergraduate credits earned and 3.0+ GPA) enabling them to enroll in graduate courses during their senior year at BGSU.

No. The Graduate College will contact you when you apply for your bachelor’s graduation to confirm the planned start term of your graduate program. If you choose to delay starting your graduate program, you may need to re-apply for a master’s program.

Undergraduate students who have been accepted into an Accelerated Bachelor's to Master's Program should complete the Accelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s Program Course Registration Request form to register for their desired graduate courses for an academic semester. The student will initiate the form, and the Graduate Coordinator and the Graduate College will approve the request.  After the form is processed by Registration and Records, the student will be able to register for the approved graduate course(s) when their registration opens.

As an Accelerated student, you may only choose from the pre-approved courses for your program.

If multiple semesters are open for registration, please use separate forms for different semesters, e.g. if you are requesting a summer course and a fall course, use two separate forms.

Students applying for an Accelerated program must have 75 credit hours earned with a 3.2+ BGSU GPA  or 90 credit hours earned with a 3.0+ BGSU GPA.

Some programs may have different requirements for their Accelerated program.

As an applicant for Accelerated Bachelor’s to Master’s, your application fee is waived.

We do not guarantee graduate courses taken as a BGSU undergraduate can count at other institutions. Each institution’s policy may be different. Contact that institution with questions.

While you are an undergraduate student, if you are taking 12 credits (of UG and GR combined), you are considered a full-time student.

Students with Accelerated status will pay tuition at the undergraduate rate through the completion of their bachelor’s degree. Under the Falcon Tuition Guarantee, this benefit continues after participants begin their graduate program, until their undergraduate cohort period expires. Thereafter, students pay the graduate rate for tuition and fees.

No. Graduate Assistants MUST have a completed bachelor’s degree and be fully enrolled in a graduate program.

Students will be eligible for financial aid based on their BGSU student status as either an undergraduate or graduate student. When Accelerated students are still in undergraduate status, they  may be eligible for financial aid but not graduate assistantships. Once students become regularly admitted graduate students with full graduate student status, they may be eligible for graduate-level financial assistance, including graduate assistantships with stipends and/or graduate tuition scholarships.