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Home > Graduate Program > FAQs Frequently Asked Questions
_________________________________________________ SEAS Graduate Admissions Send application supporting documents to: University of Pennsylvania Departmental Mailing Address You can view a complete listing of all the graduate courses that we offer at http://www.me.upenn.edu/graduate/gradcourses.html. You can also check http://www.upenn.edu/registrar and check the roster for current course offerings in MEAM. You are welcome to send e-mail to mega@seas.upenn.edu. Be sure to include your name, research area and contact information in the e-mail and we will have a student here at Penn contact you via e-mail. Click here to begin an online application. The School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania no longer sends out paper applications. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Please apply on-line. Please note that you do not have to fill in the entire application in one sitting. You may come back and modify your application at any point of time before you submit it. When you finish the application please remember to submit your application.
You do not need to send any additional information than what is stated in the application. You can choose to send additional information if you think that it would strengthen your application. MSE degree program application deadlines are as follows: Please note that if you are applying to our Ph.D. degree program we only accept application for the fall semester. MSE There is no need to contact a specific Professor to ask for financial
aid. However, it may help if you contact a professor and
let him/her know about your background and interests. Sometimes,
a Professor may be willing to support a student from research grants
right from the first year. If you have a question specific to his/her
research, he/she will be happy to answer it for you, which would
create an opportunity for you to maintain a contact with the professor. A single application covers both admission and financial aid. A complete application including admission fee, which partially covers the processing cost of the admission materials, must be submitted by June 1 for fall semester candidates. However the deadline for financial aid consideration is January 2, hence those with financial needs must abide by this earlier application deadline. For more information about financial aid with regards to the PhD program click here.
GRE The GRE exam is required for applying to the PhD program only. The GRE exam will not be waived for any reason. If you are applying to the MSE program, the exam is not required. The minimum GRE score is a combined score of 2000 out of a possible 2400. GRE scores are evaluated as (Verbal Reasoning + Quantitative Reasoning + (133.33 * Analytical Writing)) which makes it a total of 2400. TOEFL Foreign students whose native language is not English are required to submit an official TOEFL examination score of 100, 250 or 600 (depending on which test was taken) better unless they have spent at least three years at an academic institution in an English speaking country. The requirement can be waived if the candidate has completed at least three years of academic work on a full-time basis at an institution in the United States or in another nation in which English is the official language. Test Score Reporting Codes The GRE reporting code is 2926 (school code) along with 1502 (department code). The TOFEL reporting code is 2888.
Yes, you can apply to our graduate program in your senior year of undergraduate studies. You do not need an M.S.E. degree to apply to our Ph.D. degree program. Ph.D. M.S.E. Applicants may reapply to the program in any year. Reapplying applicants will need to fill out a new application. If you wish to reuse prior application documents (such as transcripts) from your previous application please send e-mail to apo@seas.upenn.edu with your request. If you are reapplying, we recommend that you discuss how your qualifications have changed over the past year in your personal statement. All applicants are required to submit at least two letters of recommendation, one of which must be from a faculty member familiar with your academic performance. If your graduation date was over five years prior to this application you may request a waiver of the faculty recommendation.
M.S.E. Ph.D. If your school does not use the GPA system please include your percentage (marks) and the scale in which it is based.
Normally we do NOT accept applications to our Ph.D. program for the spring semester. However, we do make exceptions for exceptional students. You must first contact your potential advisor and get his permission. After which you will apply to our program for the fall semester and then send e-mail to banford@seas.upenn.edu requesting that your application be changed to the spring.
Yes you can apply to our M.S.E. degree program even if you have an BA/BS degree from a non-engineering program. However, you will need to take at least five undergraduate courses in Mechanical Engineering. These courses will not count towards the ten required for the M.S.E. degree. The five undergraduate courses must be taken for a grade. Courses that are taken under audit will not satisfy this requirement. Please send an unofficial copy of your undergraduate transcripts to banford@seas.upenn.edu and note that you would like to apply to the M.S.E. degree program in MEAM and would like to know the five undergraduate courses in detail. Many our our current M.S.E. degree program students are part time. Some courses are offered in the late afternoon or evening to accommodate those who work full-time. A thesis is NOT required to complete the MEAM M.S.E. degree. To obtain a MSE degree a student should complete a total of ten course units. If you choose to write a thesis, it may count for up to three course units towards the degree.
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