Admissions

Admission standards are substantially the same as indicated in ME-MS: Mechanical Engineering (MS).

However, since thesis supervision is required and the availability of thesis supervisors is limited, admission is not granted until the student personally engages a faculty member to supervise a research project. This most often involves a paid research assistantship awarded by individual faculty members (usually from the funds of sponsored research projects under their direction). Thus, individual arrangement between student and faculty is necessary. Students studying for the MS degree at Stanford who wish to continue to the Engineer degree ordinarily make such arrangements during the MS degree program. Students holding master’s degrees from other universities are invited to apply and may be admitted, provided they are sufficiently qualified and have made thesis supervision and financial aid arrangements.