Up to two advisor-approved upper-division undergraduate courses (6 to 8 credit hours total) may be counted toward the ECE master’s degree, and not three upper-division undergraduate courses as stated in the Graduate Catalog: https://registrar.utexas.edu/catalogs. ECE undergraduate majors have enrollment priority in ECE undergraduate courses due to their need to take certain courses to fulfill BSEE BSECE degree requirements. The ECE Advising Office, in consultation with the ECE Curriculum Committee, determines when to open a limited number of ECE undergraduate courses to graduate students and notifies ECE graduate students by email. ECE undergraduate courses may be unavailable to graduate students during early registration. Sometimes ECE undergraduate courses are opened to graduate students as late as the start of the semester in which the courses are offered.
Note that a bar for unfulfilled prerequisites that prevents an undergraduate student, and never a graduate student , from enrolling in an ECE undergraduate course must be waived manually for a graduate student by an ECE Advising Office staff member.
Open seats in an ECE undergraduate course are not a guarantee that a course will be made available to graduate students. Despite advisor approval or an instructor’s approval, an ECE undergraduate course may remain closed to graduate students. Students are advised to list more than the number of courses they need to take in a given each semester on their registration form in order to obtain approval in advance and to be well prepared for registration.
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