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The purpose of the master’s program is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary for a professional career or doctoral studies. This is done through advanced lecture course work in the fundamentals of the field, including microhydrodynamics, molecular thermodynamics, kinetics, spectroscopy, applied mathematics, and biochemical engineering, in addition to the student’s area of specialization. All students must master the fundamental chemical, physical, and biological concepts that govern molecular behavior.

A range of M.S. programs comprising appropriate course work is available to accommodate students wishing to obtain further academic preparation before pursuing a professional chemical engineering career or a professional degree program. The degree requirements are lecture course based; there are no research or thesis requirements. This is a terminal M.S. degree, i.e. this degree is not a prerequisite for nor does it lead to admission to the department’s Ph.D. program.

Coterminal master's students should see the specific requirements for the coterminal degree below.

For conferral of a master's degree in Chemical Engineering, the following departmental requirements must be met.

Unit and Course Requirements for the Master's Degree

Students terminating their graduate work with the M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering must develop a graduate-level, thematic M.S. program consisting of a minimum of 45 completed units of academic work that includes:

  1. Four (4) Chemical Engineering core graduate lecture courses selected from the CHEMENG 300 series
  2. Three (3) units of CHEMENG 699 Colloquium
  3. An additional 30 units, selected from graduate-level science or engineering lecture courses (3 units or more) in any appropriate department and, by petition to the Chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering, from upper-division undergraduate lecture courses in science and engineering

Alternatively, up to 6 units of research may be used in lieu of up to 6 units of the additional 30 lecture units, to partially satisfy the 45 unit minimum requirement. Credit toward the required minimum of 45 completed units for the M.S. degree is not given for non science and engineering courses in other departments or for the Chemical Engineering special topics courses numbered in the 500 series.

To ensure that an appropriate Chemical Engineering graduate program is pursued by each M.S. candidate, students who first matriculate at Stanford at the graduate level must do the following, during the first quarter no later than the seventh week:

  1. Complete a Program Proposal for a Master’s Degree form, that is approved by the M.S. adviser
  2. Submit this petition to departmental student services, for review by the graduate curriculum committee, and
  3. Obtain approval for any subsequent program change or changes from the M.S. adviser and the graduate committee.

Stanford undergraduates admitted to the coterminal master’s program must:

  1. Submit an adviser-approved Program Proposal for a Master’s Degree (a graduate degree progress form), either during their second quarter of graduate standing or upon the completion of 9 units of graduate work (whichever occurs first), and
  2. Document with student services their M.S. adviser’s review and approval of their graduate program when they have accrued 30 units toward the M.S. degree in Chemical Engineering.

Each M.S. candidate must obtain approvals for the final M.S. program no later than the seventh week of the quarter preceding the quarter of degree conferral,in order to permit amendment of the final quarter’s study list if the faculty deem this necessary. Students with questions should contact departmental graduate student services.

Minimum Grade Requirement

Any course used to satisfy the 45-unit minimum for the Master of Science degree must be taken for a letter grade, if offered. An overall grade point average (GPA) of 3.0 must be maintained for these courses.

Research Experience

Students in the M.S. program wishing to obtain research experience should talk with departmental student services and work with the M.S. faculty adviser on the choice of research adviser as early as feasible and in advance of the anticipated quarter(s) of research. Once arrangements are mutually agreed upon, including the number of units, students enroll in the appropriate section of CHEMENG 600 Graduate Research in Chemical Engineering. A written report describing the results of the research undertaken must be submitted to and approved by the research adviser. Research units may not be substituted for any of the required four 300-level core lecture courses.

Requirements

Our Master of Science (MS) program is a terminal degree for those seeking advanced knowledge in a focused area of chemical engineering to pursue a career in industry or a professional degree, e.g. in medicine, law, education or business. It is based on the completion of lecture courses focused on a theme within the discipline of chemical engineering.  No thesis is required, nor is research required. This program is open to three cohorts of applicants:

  1. Active Stanford undergraduates, who should apply via the internal coterminal degree application process.
  2. Currently matriculated Stanford graduate students; see departmental students services (Shriram Center, Room 129).
  3. External applicants who have completed a bachelor’s degree or will have completed one before matriculating as a graduate student.  Individuals in this third group apply online. 

Each department conferring graduate degrees establishes its own application deadlines. An applicant may apply to only one degree program at Stanford University, meaning the applicant must choose one department and degree program and can have only one active application. All components of an application to the Department of Chemical Engineering must be received by the department no later than the appropriate due date. Tuesday, February 17, 2017, is the deadline for all components of a MS application to be received by the department.

All applicants must make an official application, using the university's online forms and procedures, and following the directions from the Office of the Registrar, Graduate Admissions. Visit the Grad Admissions site for more information about the graduate admissions process at Stanford and to apply for graduate admission.

Applicants should upload any pertinent documents, such as transcripts, to ensure a complete online application.  In addition, all applicants must provide two (or two sets of) original transcripts (academic records); they should be sent in their original, sealed envelopes, directly to the department.  If ETS results (scores and percentages) are not reported on the application, copies of unofficial GRE and TOEFL score reports, and any other documents, such as resumes or publications not already uploaded, should be sent to the department.

Scholarships

Offers of admission to our MS program are made without guarantees of financial aid and are valid until the end of August of the same year. Those considering pursuing their master’s degree are encouraged to visit Stanford Financial Aid to obtain more information about financing graduate study. Financial aid for graduate students includes loans and fellowship awards, from either external sources such as governmental agencies, industry or private foundations; or from internal university, school and departmental resources. 

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