Graduate Programs

• We offer exciting fundamental as well as applied research opportunities in the areas of sustainable energy and material science. Representative of the real‐world scenarios that you may encounter after graduation, our projects are often multi‐disciplinary in nature and involve collaborations with other engineers, scientists and industry.
• With a research revenue averaging two million dollars over the past five years, we are able to offer all of our incoming graduate students some form of financial assistance. Typically, 90% of our graduate students receive financial assistance by their first semester here and nearly all of them receive an assistantship by their second semester pending satisfactory progress.
• Our financial assistance package includes a full‐tuition waiver and health insurance coverage.
• Our small student to faculty ratio (3‐4 graduate students per faculty) allows us to structure your program of study and research individually to meet your educational objectives.
• Our "open door policy" ensures that we are always available to meet with you. This also means that you work closely and directly with your faculty advisor and not with a Post‐Doc or senior graduate student.
• Most of us have industrial experience so you get to understand the real‐world consequences of your research.
• We also welcome non‐majors into our program.

• Once your completed application package is received by the graduate school, it is then forwarded to the department for a decision. Please note that we do not make decisions on incomplete applications.
• We then evaluate the entire pool of completed applications and offer admissions based on a set of holistic standards that includes your transcript, GRE scores (if applicable), essay, and other factors. This system has been shown to be a good predictor of when an applicant is likely to be successful in graduate school.
• Admission decisions are made shortly after September 15 for enrollment in the Spring and after February 28 for enrollment in the Fall.

• We rank all qualified admissions using the same holistic rating of factors that are used to determine admissions. Financial aid offers are then made from this ranked list based on the number of teaching and research assistantships we predict will be available in the initial semester
• This is done on a department‐wide basis, therefore please note that students are not recruited by individual faculty members
• If you are offered financial aid, you will typically have 30 days to accept the aid and certify that you will actually enroll at UND. If you decide not to enroll, we will then offer your aid to the next student on the waiting list.

 

No. Contacting individual faculty will not affect your chances positively. The Chemical Engineering faculty will simply forward your email to the graduate director for action.

• You will be placed on a waiting list based on your order on the ranking list. When aid becomes available and your name comes to the top of the list, you are offered aid.
• If you enroll at UND without aid, you will be given priority for aid over any newly admitted students for the next semester, as long as you are a student in good standing.
• Over 90% of eligible students admitted to the program are offered aid prior to the start of their initial semester. Currently, 100% of eligible students in good standing have received financial aid offers prior to the start of their second semester.

If your undergraduate degree was from an ABET‐accredited engineering program in the US/Canada:

• Completed application form and application fees
• Official transcripts
• Three letters of recommendation
• Personal statement

If your undergraduate degree or higher was from a non-ABET‐accredited program in the US/Canada*:

• Completed application form and application fees
• Official GRE scores
• Official transcripts
• Three letters of recommendation
• Personal statement

If your undergraduate degree or higher was not from an ABET-accredited engineering program in the US/Canada:

• Completed application form and application fees
• Official GRE and TOEFL scores (please note this requirement cannot be waived)
• Official transcripts
• Three letters of recommendation
• Personal statement

*This includes applicants who have earned a Master's degree from a school that offers the comparable ABET‐accredited undergraduate degree but their undergraduate degree was not from an ABET‐accredited engineering program in the US/Canada.

• Yes! We regularly admit students into our graduate program with undergraduate degrees outside of chemical engineering. In fact, this is a specialty of ours; helping students who have decided to change degrees to chemical engineering to become fully qualified chemical engineers.
• We use a set of holistic standards that includes your transcript, GRE scores (if applicable), essay, and other factors to determine if you will be granted qualified admission to the program. This system has been shown to be a good predictor of when an applicant is likely to be successful in graduate school.
• You are initially admitted in what we call "qualified status". More information on "qualified status" is available in the UND graduate catalog.
• Your admission letter will outline the additional undergraduate courses at UND that you will need to take to become a full status graduate student. You may be able to satisfy some of these requirements as a teaching assistant for that course. The final decision on this is made by the graduate director.
• Under qualified status, you typically take 1‐1.5 years' worth of undergraduate coursework to gain the necessary background in chemical engineering before being admitted fully into the M.S. ChE program. Thus, your complete program typically will take about 3 years total time to receive a Master's degree.
• Note: the first year while in qualified status you are not eligible to receive financial aid. Once you satisfy most or all of your remedial coursework, you'll be eligible for financial aid equivalent to a newly admitted student. Since you are already enrolled, you receive priority over any newly admitted students to receive this aid.

• Most of our admitted students have TOEFL and GRE scores that are greater than the following:
• TOEFL (greater than 550 on the paper‐based test, 213 on the computer‐based test and a composite score of 105 on the internet based TOEFL)
• Verbal (old score: 450/new score: 150)
• Quantitative (old score: 700/new score: 155)
• Analytical writing (greater than 3.5)

It varies depending on the quality of the applicant pool. It generally ranges between 25% and 50%.

No. Admission is based solely on our evaluation of your capabilities to handle the advanced work incumbent in chemical engineering graduate studies.

• Admission decisions are based solely on our evaluation of your capabilities to handle the advanced work incumbent in chemical engineering graduate studies.
• Financial aid is based on the ranking list we develop. This list is based on many factors and degree type is one of the factors. If all other factors were equal, we would offer aid to a Ph.D. applicant before an M.S. applicant. But there are many factors we consider.

• No. Your chances depend solely on solely on our evaluation of your capabilities to handle the advanced work incumbent in chemical engineering graduate studies. We admit students all year round who may then enroll beginning in the next available academic session, including summer sessions.
• Financial aid depends upon availability and the ranking list. In general, if your qualifications are marginal, you are more likely to be offered aid prior to your initial session if you apply for the Spring session compared to the Fall session.

Most of our graduates find jobs in industry or with government research labs. About a third of our M.S. graduates continue to pursue advanced degrees at other Universities.

Yes, let us know and we'll be happy to put you in touch with one of our graduate students.