ENGINEERING PROGRAM — THE PROGRAM

For students wishing to major in this field, the Engineering Program offers several options that make it possible for them to live and work in the Boston area while completing either two or three years of the course work required for the bachelor’s degree in engineering. The program has been developed in cooperation with UMass Amherst, UMass Lowell and UMass Dartmouth, and UMass Boston has articulation agreements with these campuses.

Students who are admitted to the program and successfully complete the first two years are guaranteed admission to other schools of engineering within the UMass system. Alternatively, they can apply to transfer to Boston University, Northeastern University, Tufts University, or Wentworth Institute of Technology to complete a degree in engineering.

For students wishing to study electrical engineering there is an additional choice. They may enroll in a collaborative degree program (3+1) with UMass Lowell in which they complete three years of study at the Boston campus, spend the senior year at the Lowell campus, and receive the BS in electrical engineering from UMass Lowell. This curriculum includes a computing concentration component or a computing foundation component in addition to the standard electrical engineering sequence.

Engineering students who wish to complete their education at UMass Boston may pursue a degree in engineering physics. This discipline, a branch of applied science that emphasizes both engineering and physics, is a challenging general alternative to the more specialized undergraduate engineering curriculum. For complete information, see the “Engineering Physics” section of this publication.