"Premature" Master's

<p>Good day!</p>

<p>I need to find out if there is a possibility to enroll into around top 50 US Universities on Mater's Studies without having your Bachelor's degree finished. Application would be made by a foreign undergrad student to approximately Physics, Engineering, or Finances. I know the chances are miserly, however any slight possibility is taken into account.</p>

<p>-Thank you :)</p>

<p>Don’t think so.</p>

<p>Enrolling in a Masters program before completing a degree in your home country is not possible unless you happen to be in a university which has a combined degree program agreement with a U.S. university. At my university, Illinois Tech, we have agreements with a number of universities in Spain and France where the student is in a 5-year engineering degree at their home institution and they come to IIT for 12 months to complete 3/4 of the courses required for the Masters degree and a research project. We allow double counting of a few credits from their home institution in the Masters program and they return to their home institution after the 12 months and are awarded a M.S. from IIT and the degree from their home institution. I am sure there are other universities with such agreements. If you happen to be in one of the partner institutions, then you are in luck.</p>

<p>Thank you
And how about enrolling into bachelor’s anew by a student who already has studied on bachelor’s for 3 years?
Are there any special regulations that the applicant has to face?</p>

<p>Varies by school. Many have a minimum hour requirement to graduate, where the last XX number of hours has to be taken from the school you intend to graduate from. Not sure what the number is exactly for any given school, but I recall seeing numbers ranger from 30 to 60 semester hours (Basically 1-2 years full time.). Check the website pages for any school you are interested in and look for the Transfer section - they should list graduation requirements there.</p>