<p>I'm seriously considering penn state but the only thing that is keeping me from possibly choosing it is their lack of information about a 5 year masters. I want to major in mechanical or bioengineering/mechanical but I'm serious about obtaining a masters degree and a 5 year program is a deal breaker at this point. Does anyone have any information about such a program?</p>
<p>Have you contacted the College of Engineering with your questions?</p>
<p>First of all, this is a bad criterion - you assume that in 4 years you will want the same graduate degree that you THINK you want now, and are willing to bet your choice of colleges on it? Changing majors or career goals is so common in undergrad that it is the de facto NORM. It also ignores the fact that a heck of a lot of students honestly believe that they are academic bad asses BEFORE arriving at college - be careful what you commit to before you even start taking classes, much less upper-division classes. </p>
<p>It also presumes that PSU will be the best place for you to get the grad degree you will need in your career or future studies, and you have no way of knowing that yet - depending on your performance, you may be better suited and more interested in an entirely different school at that point! ALL graduate programs have strong areas and weak areas, and you may well find out that PSU is weak in the areas in which you have an interest, and rushing through your degree a year faster at the wrong place just screws you over.</p>
<p>However, to answer your question, PSU offers an integrated BS/MS engineering degree automatically only to 3.4+ GPA students in Engineering Science or Engineering Mechanics. The only option to get an integrated BS/MS degree in the fields you mentioned is through the Schreyer Honors College (SHC). SHC offers tremendous flexibility to top students, including allowing those with VERY strong performance in their first few years to do an integrated BS/MS in just about anything.</p>
<p>So if you are insistent on the BS/MS thing, then your only route at PSU is to go SHC and score a 3.70+ GPA.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
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<p>There is an integrated program in architectural engineering (BAE/MAE) open to high performing students not in SHC. I wasn’t sure about other departments. The AE program takes five years, but the BAE alone is a 5 year program.</p>