Bryn Mawr College

Four Plus One Partnership with Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science

The College's new Four Plus One Partnership with the University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science allows a student to begin work on a Master's degree in Engineering while still enrolled as an undergraduate at Bryn Mawr. Students may apply to the program as early as their fourth semester or as late as their seventh semester. Applicants would be required to major in math or a relevant science and to have both a major and a cumulative GPA of at least 3.0. Applicants would also be encouraged to submit GRE scores. Successful applicants would be permitted to take up to three graduate courses at Penn while undergraduates through the Quaker Consortium. These courses would count towards a student's undergraduate degree and at the discretion of her major department might also count towards a student's major. Successful applicants would also be eligible to participate in Penn's summer undergraduate research program.

Upon completion of her undergraduate degree, students in the Four Plus One Partnership would then matriculate at the University of Pennsylvania and complete her Master's Degree. Students who had already completed three graduate courses would be able to complete the degree (seven remaining courses) in one year.

Each department in the sciences has appointed a faculty liaison:

• Krynn Lukacs, Chemistry
• Mark Matlin, Physics
• Karen Greif, Biology
• Selby Cull, Geology
• Paul Melvin, Math
• Dianna Xu, Computer Science

Students interested in this program should consult the relevant liaison. It may be advisable for such students to enroll in one or more introductory engineering courses at Penn during their sophomore year to learn more about engineering and better prepare for graduate level courses.

More information and an application are available here.