MS Degree
The program offers an MS degree through an academic track and a professional track. In the academic track, the recommended thesis option requires a student to complete a research project and write a thesis. For the non-thesis option, a comprehensive written exit examination over the materials in the core and prescribed elective course work will be required. The professional track requires an internship.
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Course Requirements |
Academic Track |
Professional Track |
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Thesis |
Non-Thesis | ||
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Core Courses |
13 |
13 |
13 |
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Prescribed Electives |
6 |
6 |
6 |
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Free Electives |
3 |
12 |
12 |
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Research Courses |
3 |
3 |
3 |
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Thesis |
6 |
0 |
0 |
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Total |
31 |
34 |
34 |
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Additional Requirement |
Thesis Defense |
Comprehensive Examination |
Internship |
- Academic Track – Thesis Option (Word template)
- Academic Track – Non-Thesis Option (Word template)
- Professional Track (Word template)
Each student taking the thesis option in the academic track will choose a research advisor supervising the research and thesis writing to satisfy the following requirements:
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Thesis Committee - Each student will choose a thesis committee of at least 3 faculty members. The Committee Chair must be a CPS faculty member as the research advisor of the student, and the committee members may not be all from the same department/program with at least one more CPS faculty.
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Thesis - It should contain original results related to significant problems in computational science and should be submitted to Graduate School for format check prior to the scheduled defense date.
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Thesis Defense - An oral defense before the student’s thesis committee in the form of a research seminar is required after completion of the thesis. A close-to-final thesis draft must be emailed to the CPS Office (computationalscience@utep.edu) at least 2 weeks before the scheduled defense date. In addition, an announcement flyer of the defense is due no later than one week before the defense date.
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Timeline - Each student must adhere to the thesis submission and defense deadlines listed on the Graduate School website at /graduate/current-students/completion.html and click "Master's Completion Timeline" on the webpage.