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B.S. in SE / Accelerated M.S. in Telecommunications
Students who are in the Bachelor of Science in Systems Engineering (BSSE) program may elect to enter an accelerated Master of Science in Telecommunications (MS in TCOM) program while they are undergraduate students. The accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM Program is designed for qualified undergraduate students in the Systems Engineering program who would like to proceed directly into the MS in TCOM program, completing the two degrees with 144 credit hours. Accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM students must satisfy both the requirements for the BS/SE. undergraduate degree (a total of 120 credit hours) and the M.S. in Telecommunications graduate degree (a total of 30 credit hours), with 6 credit hours of overlap permitted between the two degrees. The MS in TCOM degree would therefore be on an accelerated track, 6 credits being taken while an undergraduate and 24 credits as a graduate student. The 6 credit hours of TCOM courses taken while a Systems Engineering undergraduate must be selected from those given in the table at the end of this description.
Applicants for the accelerated BSSE/MS program must be George Mason University undergraduate students who have preferably chosen to take the Systems Engineering of Telecommunications System elective sequence. Other students will be considered on their individual merit. Students may apply for the accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM program during a semester after which they will have completed 90 or more credit hours as an undergraduate. Students must have an overall Grade Point Average (GPA) of at least 3.25 to apply for the program. Criteria for admission into the accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM program are identical to criteria for admission into the MS in TCOM program, with the exception that students do not need to have completed an undergraduate degree prior to admission into the accelerated program.
Students who have been accepted into the accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM program must maintain a minimum 3.25 GPA in the undergraduate segment of the accelerated program and a 3.00 GPA in the graduate segment of the accelerated program. That is, after a student has been accepted into the accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM program, the student must maintain a 3.25 average until they have satisfied all of the requirements for the BSSE undergraduate degree. They must then maintain a 3.0 average in the graduate segment of the accelerated program. Should their GPA fall below 3.0 while a graduate student, they will be dropped from the accelerated program to the regular program and those graduate TCOM courses taken and applied to their BSSE program will no longer be admissible for their MS in TCOM degree. If a student is dropped from the accelerated program and has taken and applied TCOM core courses towards their BS/SE degree, then the student does not need to repeat those courses for the regular MS in TCOM program if they obtained a grade B, or above, in those courses. However, they will need to take elective courses in their place to satisfy the 33-credit requirement for the regular MS in TCOM degree. In a similar manner, if a student is dropped from the accelerated program and has taken and applied non-core TCOM courses towards their BSSE degree, then the student does not need to repeat those courses for the regular MS in TCOM program if they obtained a C grade, or above, for those courses. Elective courses will be required to replace courses already taken and dropped from the program, as before. NOTE: up to two C grades may be carried in the regular TCOM program in the non-core courses. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required to graduate with an MS in TCOM degree.
Students must complete all requirements for the BSSE degree. Students in the accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM program may apply to have the BSSE degree conferred during the semester in which they expect to complete their BSSE requirements. The MS in TCOM degree is granted upon completion of all requirements for the accelerated MS in TCOM degree.
The TCOM courses that may be taken as a Systems Engineering undergraduate student as part of the accelerated BSSE/MS in TCOM program are given in the table below.
NOTE: All of the prerequisite courses indicated below must be passed with a grade B, or higher.
| Course | Comment |
| TCOM 500 | Prerequisite is ECE 301, or equivalent |
| TCOM 501 | Prerequisite is ECE 301, or equivalent. The TCOM 501/502 courses are an advanced version of SYST 422; students may not count both SYST 422 and TCOM 501/502 in their undergraduate programs. |
| TCOM 502 | Prerequisite is TCOM 501, or equivalent |
| TCOM 503 | Prerequisite is TCOM 500, or equivalent |
| TCOM 504 | Prerequisite is TCOM 501 and TCOM 502, or equivalent |
| TCOM 505 | Prerequisite is TCOM 501 or ECE 462, or equivalent |
| TCOM 507 | Prerequisite is ECE 463, or equivalent |
| TCOM 508 | Prerequisite is TCOM 507 |
| TCOM 509 | Pre-requisite is TCOM 501 and TCOM 502, or equivalent |
| TCOM 510 | Prerequisite is TCOM 505 |
| TCOM 513 | Prerequisite is TCOM 503 |
| TCOM 521 | Prerequisite (for systems engineering undergraduates) are SYST 301, SYST 371 and TCOM 500 or equivalent |
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