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Program Requirements

• 36 credit hours are required
• Transfer credit hours from another university will not be accepted toward fulfilling requirements for this program
• A minimum of 15 credit hours must be at the 8000 level
• Each student must designate one of the four sciences as his/her primary area. The student must then complete 21 hours in this field (with advisor approval), including the Research Methods and Capstone courses.
• The student can then elect to take whatever courses he/she chooses (with advisor approval) to complete the degree.
• The time limit for fulfilling the requirements for the program is 6 years.
• A written comprehensive examination is required of all degree candidates and will be administered at the beginning of the final term. The candidate's graduate committee will administer the exam based on his/her coursework. The candidate must be enrolled at MSU during the semester the examination is administered, must have a GPA of 3.0 on all coursework after being admitted to the program (i.e., program and non-program courses), and must be within the last 6 hours of his/her program of study. All candidates will be eligible to take the examination twice only after a minimum of 4 months time has elapsed from when the first examination was taken. Two failures of the examination result in the student being dropped as a master degree candidate.

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