Students may be accepted into the Early Entry Program at any time after completion of 90 semester hours of undergraduate work applicable to the B.S.M.E. degree. Admission must be approved by the Department Chair or Graduate Program Coordinator, and admission is conditional pending the awarding of the undergraduate degree.

In order to be accepted to the Mechanical Engineering Early Entry Program, undergraduate students must have at least a 3.2 overall GPA and a 3.2 GPA in the major. Additionally, applicants must have taken the appropriate graduate standardized test (GRE) and received acceptable test scores.

Students accepted into the Early Entry Program are subject to the same policies that pertain to other matriculated graduate students. Early Entry students must finish their undergraduate degree before they complete 15 hours of graduate work.