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Applicants to the Texas ECE major are required to select if you are applying to our Master’s program, or to our PhD program. Applicants are not permitted to submit more than one application to ECE. In some rare cases, the admissions committee may decide to evaluate an applicant for both Master’s and PhD, e.g. to admit somebody who applied for a PhD into the MSE program.
A student can change between programs after coming to UT. A student in the MSE program can apply for admission into the PhD program while at UT (see below). A student admitted into the PhD program can choose to obtain an MSE along the way, although over a longer time period than a student within the MSE program. Students within the PhD program receive funding (see above), but are expected to participate in research and thus take fewer courses each semester from the beginning, which will delay completion of their MSE coursework.
Is a Master’s required in order to apply to the PhD program?
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