PlusOne Program with MS in Artificial Intelligence
Our PlusOne Accelerated Master’s programs empower motivated students like you to start earning your master’s degree while pursuing your undergraduate education. In the PlusOne Program with MS in Artificial Intelligence, you can take up to four graduate-level courses and apply them to both your undergraduate and graduate artificial intelligence degrees. Build the skills you need to design, develop, and apply intelligent systems across a range of real-world applications while reducing the time it takes to complete a master’s from two years to one.
Program details: PlusOne with MS in Artificial Intelligence
Who is eligible for PlusOne with MS in Artificial Intelligence?
Students pursuing a Khoury College undergraduate degree program, in both core and combined majors, are eligible. Students in combined majors with Khoury College are eligible regardless of their home college affiliation.
Students may complete up to four graduate (master’s) courses as an undergraduate.
- Only one graduate course may be completed per semester.
- The remaining required courses must be completed as a master’s student (post-bachelor’s graduation).
When do PlusOne students start taking graduate courses?
- Minimum 3.0 GPA required to request graduate course enrollment.
- First-year students cannot take their first graduate-level course during the summer. Please plan to take your first graduate-level course in the fall of your second year at the earliest.
- First-year students cannot take their first graduate-level course during the summer. Please plan to take your first graduate-level course in the fall of your second year at the earliest.
- Students can request enrollment in graduate-level courses via a survey that is emailed out before each semester’s registration period.
What are the admission requirements?
Interested students should meet with their advisor no later than their third semester to discuss how the PlusOne pathway will fit into their academic plan and when they plan to complete their first graduate-level course.
Admission requires:
- Minimum 3.0 GPA, both cumulative and within the major
- Successful completion of a graduate-level Khoury College course
- Submission of the online PlusOne Application form:
- Academic advisors will share the online application form with eligible students
- Application form should only be submitted after the above requirements are met
- Admission into the PlusOne program does not guarantee admission into the master’s program upon graduation at the bachelor’s level
What are the progression requirements?
- To continue in the PlusOne program, students must maintain a minimum 3.0 GPA and earn a cumulative 3.0 GPA in all graduate-level CS courses.
- Students admitted into the PlusOne program maintain undergraduate standing and must continue to request admission into graduate courses each term.
- Undergraduates are limited to one graduate course per semester, with a limit of four graduate courses (including withdrawals) total during the undergraduate degree. Placement is not guaranteed.
- Students should confer regularly with their undergraduate academic advisor to ensure proper planning.
- Students entering a graduate program via the PlusOne pathway are not eligible for the Double Husky Scholarship. If you have additional questions related to tuition or scholarship eligibility, please reach out to Student Financial Services.
Graduate replacements for undergraduate courses
Important considerations for course selection:
- A student may not take the graduate-level version of a course if they have already completed the undergraduate version. (Example: If you have already completed CS 4100, a request to take CS 5100 will be denied.)
- If you do not meet the prerequisites for the undergraduate version of the course, you are not eligible for the graduate version. (Example: The prerequisite for CS 3000: Algorithms is (CS 2100 or CS 2510 or DS 2500) AND (CS 1800 or EECE 2160). You must adhere to this same prerequisite requirement if requesting a seat in CS 5800, which is the graduate-level version of CS 3000.)
- It is strongly recommended for undergraduate students pursuing the AI PlusOne program to take CS 5800 Algorithms (if they have not already taken CS 3000) and CS 5100 Artificial Intelligence (if they have not already taken CS 4100) during their time as an undergraduate, to count as two of their four graduate-level PlusOne courses. If CS 3000 and/or CS 4100 is not required in the undergraduate degree, using Khoury Elective space to take CS 5800 and/or CS 5100 is highly recommended.
Check the course catalog for course descriptions.
| Undergraduate Course Requirement | Graduate Replacement |
|---|---|
| CS 3000 Algorithms and Data | CS 5800 Algorithms* |
| CS 4100 Artificial Intelligence | CS 5100 Foundations of Artificial Intelligence* |
| CS 4180 Reinforcement Learning | CS 5180 Reinforcement Learning and Sequential Decision Making |
| Khoury Elective | CS 5330 Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision |
| CS 4610 Robotic Science and Systems | CS 5335 Robotic Science and Systems |
| CS 4220 (formerly IS 4200) Information Retrieval | CS 6200 Information Retrieval |
| CS 4120 Natural Language Processing | CS 6120 Natural Language Processing |
| DS 4420 Machine Learning and Data Mining 2 | CS 6220 Data Mining Techniques |
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PlusOne student FAQs
Do I complete my bachelor's and master's degrees at the same time?
No. As an undergraduate, you can double-count up to four graduate-level courses toward both degrees. You must complete your bachelor’s degree first, then finish the final year of the master’s degree afterward.
Do I have to be a full-time graduate student to participate in PlusOne?
Yes. Full-time status at the graduate level means two graduate courses per fall or spring semester.
Do I have the option to complete a co-op as a graduate student?
Yes, though it’s optional. Keep in mind that adding a co-op will extend your time to complete the MS degree. If you’re interested, connect with the graduate co-op team as early as possible after starting the MS program to review requirements and get access to NUworks at the graduate level.
You’ll need at least one full-time semester of in-progress graduate coursework (8 semester hours) before you can conduct a full co-op search — so the earliest you could go out on co-op is the term following your first fall or spring semester in the MS program.
Do I have to continue into the master's program immediately after graduating with my bachelor's?
Yes. PlusOne students are expected to enroll directly into graduate study; there’s no option to delay or defer.
Is PlusOne available across all Northeastern campuses?
For the PlusOne pathway in Computer Science, students can choose to complete their graduate studies in Boston, Oakland, Silicon Valley, or Seattle once they’ve finished their bachelor’s degree and transitioned into the MSCS program. For all other PlusOne pathways, both degrees are completed in Boston.
Who can I contact with questions?
For questions about your PlusOne participation and how it fits into your undergraduate plan, connect with your Khoury Academic Advisor. If you’re in a Khoury combined major housed in a different college, reach out to your assigned Khoury Secondary Advisor instead.
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