Sustainable Transportation and Logistics MS
The MS program in Sustainable Transportation and Logistics is a 30-credit hour program designed to provide ample opportunities for learning state-of-the art knowledge and industry best practices validated with industry interactions.
Students opting to complete it full-time can finish in 1 to 1.5 years. A minimum GPA of 3.0 is required every semester. It can also be pursued on a part-time basis to enable those working in industry to benefit from the program.
The program is STEM approved, allowing international students the opportunity to apply for the 24-month STEM OPT extension.
The curriculum consists of five courses that are designed to provide a common platform of relevant engineering principles & practices, coupled with managerial concepts & practices. Upon entering the program, the candidates will complete these five core courses as a cohort, followed by five courses in one of the following two tracks: (1) Transportation or (2) Logistics.
The degree culminates in one of three options: All course option, Master’s Thesis, or Master's Project. Students have the choice which path they wish to take to complete their degree requirements. The intended culminating experience will change the nature of the student's course plan, as each option changes the minimum number of electives a student needs to take to complete their degree requirements.
A student must maintain a 3.00 overall GPA (rounded to 2 decimal places) to earn a MS degree in transportation and logistics. Courses applicable towards a degree must be taken for a letter grade, and the student must have received a grade of A, B, or C. Courses with grades of D or F do not count towards satisfying a student’s degree requirements.
Courses taken S/U will not count towards a degree, other than research/thesis hours or Individual Problems, or any other S/U course explicitly required by the program.