Fast Tracking

The School encourages its most academically qualified students to consider the Fast Track Option that is available to them.

A number of programs at UTD, including those in the School, offer an accelerated Fast Track option that allows students to take graduate-level courses while they are undergraduates. Specific admission requirements can be found in the descriptions of majors.

Undergraduate students who are admitted to a Fast Track program that leads to bachelor’s/master’s degrees, with the permission of the School’s Associate Dean and Graduate Director, may take a maximum of 15 specified semester hours of graduate work. These graduate hours may be used to complete the bachelor’s degree and to satisfy requirements for the Master’s degree.

In the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences, the Associate Dean for Academic Programs maintains an undergraduate academic advising office. Undergraduate academic advisors are non-faculty professional staff members who assist students in designing an appropriate program of study that satisfies requirements for graduation.

This includes course selection, coursework difficulties, degree requirements, study skills, and time management. Students should note that, although advisors are here to guide them through programs of study, students themselves are responsible for knowing the rules and regulations that involve these programs, including their degree plans, and other aspects of student life at UTD.

For advisors to assist students, students should plan to meet with their assigned advisor at least once per year. And, students who are in one of the following categories must meet with their advisor prior to registration: freshman, new transfer, non-degree, academic probation, change of major in the previous semester.

School advisors typically are available on a walk-in basis during regular and late registration periods each semester. At other times, students may email or call their assigned advisor in order to schedule an appointment.