Admission Requirements:

For admission into the Advanced Graduate Certificate program, applicants shall hold an appropriate Bachelor’s degree with a GPA of 3.0 or better (out of a possible 4.0). Request that all colleges and universities that you have attended send an official transcript to the Admissions Office. (NOTE: If you attended Southern Polytechnic State University, you need to send only the transcripts that are not already on file.) Applicants shall also obtain a GRE “current profile” score of 350 Verbal, 600 Quantitative and an Analytical Writing score of 4.0 (out of 6.0) or better.

Applicants for whom English is not their native language must obtain an appropriate TOEFL score. A minimum TOEFL score of 213 on the computer version or 550 on the paper version is required for admission to SPSU.

Curriculum:

Graduate Certificate courses

• SyE 6005 Introduction to Systems Engineering (3-0-3)
• SyE 6010 Managing the Technical Effort Associated with System Creation (3-0-3)
• SyE 6015 Systems Analysis and System Design (3-0-3)
• SyE 6020 System Architecture (3-0-3)

• SyE 6025 Engineering Economic Analysis (3-0-3)
• SyE 6030 Verification Program Development & Management (3-0-3)
• Two elective courses chosen from the following:
  • QA 6610 Statistics for Quality Assurance (3-0-3)
  • QA 6722 Human Factors in Quality Assurance (3-0-3)
  • SyE 6035 Modeling and Simulation (3-0-3)
  • SyE 6040 Advanced Configuration Management (3-0-3)
  • SyE 6045 Process Assessment and Improvement (3-0-3)
  • SWE 6633 Software Project Management (3-0-3)

TOTAL credit hours for Advanced Graduate Certificate = 24

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