Course Overview
At the graduate-level, the School of Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) offers master's and doctoral degrees. In addition, the School offers a distance learning-based master's degree. The master's degree may be earned by completing 33 semester hours of coursework, which must include 3 credit hours of Special Problems research credit. Alternatively, the candidate may elect to complete twenty-four semester hours of coursework along with nine hours of MS thesis work. In the latter option, the candidate must propose a thesis topic, complete the thesis, and successfully defend it before being awarded the degree. A GPA of 2. 7 is required to graduate with an MS degree. All coursework, including Special Problems, must be taken on a letter-grade basis. The program of study for the master's degree is very flexible and can be tailored, in agreement with the student's advisor, to meet the candidate's professional goals.