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At least two courses from Group 2 (6 credit hours) must be selected.

Group 3 – Advanced Tools

At least two courses one course from Group 3 (6 3 credit hours) must be selected. Courses in probability and statistics and/or regression analysis may be accepted with advisor approval.

Group 4 – Electives (15 credit hours)

• Advisor approval is required before a student can take courses from this group.
• Some suggested elective courses can be selected from Law and Public Policy, Management, Computer Programming, and other CEE graduate courses not listed above.
• For the MS with Thesis - Two Three additional courses from Groups II through IV, upon advisor's approval, or CEE 690 - Independent study should be taken for a total of 6 9 credit hours. Students will also enroll in CEE 997 - Master's Thesis for 6 credit hours. 
• For the MS without Thesis - Three Four additional courses from Groups II through IV upon advisor's approval, should be taken for a total of 9 12 credit hours. One of these can be CEE 690 - Independent study for 3 credit hours. Students will also either enroll in (a) CEE 600 Environmental Assessment (3 Credit hours); or (b) CEE 995 - Master's Exit Paper (0 credit hours) and one additional course from Groups II through IV (3 credit hours). The exit paper must address a topic relevant to environmental engineering. The paper can be an original work or it can be a critical review of published journal articles. The paper has a minimum length requirement of 2000 words and requires approval of the student's advisor.
• All Full-Time MS candidates must enroll and participate in CEE 660-CEE Seminar.

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Unless otherwise noted, all courses offered by either Syracuse University or SUNY ESF that are numbered 600:996 with one of the following prefixes are approved as electives for all MS & PhD programs of study.

·        Approved by Course, Syracuse University

Additionally, the following specific courses offered by Syracuse University are approved as electives for all graduate-level programs of study.

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*Note that CEE 520 - Building Information Modeling and ARC 555 - Introduction to Building Information Modeling can only be counted once towards a program of study. If a student has taken either CEE 520 or ARC 555 and used it towards any program of study, they cannot take the other course for program credit.

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Additionally, the following specific courses offered by SUNY ESF are approved as electives for all graduate-level programs of study.

Exit Requirements

• No fewer than 30 total credits of graduate-level coursework;
• completion of all coursework group requirements in a selected concentration;
• minimum 3.000 GPA for all coursework used toward the completion of degree;
• minimum 2.800 GPA cumulative for all coursework taken at SU;
• no more than 15 credits of 500-level coursework;
• at least 15 credits must be CEE prefixed graduate level courses; and
• satisfactory completion of either a thesis or an exit paper.

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