The 4+1 format offers students the opportunity to earn a Master's in Engineering at an accelerated pace. Students accepted into the 4+1 accelerated program must declare the master’s program of interest and can begin taking graduate classes during their junior and senior years while maintaining a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0, enabling completion of the program one year after earning their undergraduate degree. Current Lehigh students who earn a minimum overall GPA of 3.0 may elect to be enrolled in the 4+1 accelerated program. Students in the 4+1 program who do not qualify for direct admittance to the master's degree based on their GPA must apply for acceptance into the master's program, and two letters of recommendation and a personal statement are required.
Master's degrees are becoming increasingly common in the engineering workplace, and graduate study allows students to build new skills or expand existing ones. Students may elect to continue in their undergraduate discipline or change fields, pivoting among engineering disciplines or even from technical bachelor’s degrees outside of engineering into relevant engineering programs. Opportunities for study also exist in programs that reside outside of the traditional engineering departments, including building professional credentials in energy systems, health systems, technical entrepreneurship, structural engineering, catastrophe modeling and resilience, polymer science, aerospace and space systems, or data science.
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