Master's Programs
Our master’s programs serve a wide range of highly-qualified students such as: working professionals seeking greater expertise to advance their careers, students expanding on their undergraduate training for professional engineering practice, preparing for doctoral studies, or pursuing an entirely new field of interest. Our constantly-evolving curricula, grounded in up-to-the-minute research findings and industrial priorities, and focused on practical applications of knowledge, are designed to be responsive to career and professional interests, as well as to the needs of today’s high-tech society and economy. The list below outlines our master's programs and dual degrees.
Bioengineering
The Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) Program in Bioengineering (BE) is innovative, unique, and nationally recognized for its excellence. We are at the fore in preparing students for leadership careers in which they will influence the direction of industrial, public, and non-profit organizations in solving problems important to biology and medical research as well as clinical, proactive, and population studies. Our flexible curriculum allows students to focus on an area of bioengineering that is of particular interest to them.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Biotechnology
The Master of Biotechnology program provides students with the science and engineering training needed for success in the critical and dynamic industries of biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. This innovative and interdisciplinary program draws courses from the sciences, engineering, medicine, and business/entrepreneurship.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
The MSE Program provides highly-qualified students with the firm theoretical foundation and interdisciplinary skills that are essential for career advancement in the rapidly-changing field of chemical and biomolecular engineering. Our innovative Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) Program in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) is known for its success in preparing students for leadership roles in the oil, chemical, pharmaceutical, and electronics industries. Graduates of our program are found in companies such as Merck, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, General Electric, United Technologies, Bridgestone Americas, Exxon Mobile, Honeywell, Rohm & Haas, and many more.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Computer Graphics and Game Technology
The Master’s Program in Computer Graphics & Game Technology (CGGT) is exciting, innovative, and nationally recognized for its success in preparing students for leadership careers as designers, technical animators and directors and game programmers. Our curriculum gives students first-hand experience in the latest graphics and animation technologies, interactive media design principles, product development methodologies, and entrepreneurship. The CGGT Program prepares students for leadership careers in the fields of interactive entertainment, computer-animated films and visual effects. Our alumni are found in major game, film, and video companies such as Disney, DreamWorks Animation, Electronic Arts, Acclaim, and Crystal Dynamics.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Computer and Information Science
Designed for students with an undergraduate degree in Computer Science.
The MSE Program in Computer and Information Science, ranked as one of the nation’s top programs, prepares students to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders, and visionaries in this rapidly-expanding field. Our multi-disciplinary program allows you to pursue your own career interests. From telecommunications, computational linguistics, and bio-informatics to Artificial Intelligence, software engineering, and financial management. They can be found in major companies such as Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, and UBS Securities Japan Ltd. or pursuing doctoral degrees at major research universities such as Penn and Drexel.
Program Overview | Department Website
The MSE Program in Computer and Information Science, ranked as one of the nation’s top programs, prepares students to be tomorrow’s innovators, leaders, and visionaries in this rapidly-expanding field. Our multi-disciplinary program allows you to pursue your own career interests. From telecommunications, computational linguistics, and bio-informatics to Artificial Intelligence, software engineering, and financial management. They can be found in major companies such as Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Oracle, and UBS Securities Japan Ltd. or pursuing doctoral degrees at major research universities such as Penn and Drexel.
Program Overview | Department Website
Computer and Information Technology (MCIT)
Designed for students and professionals with minimal or no prior computing experience.
The Master's Program in Computer and Information Technology (MCIT), a widely-hailed program, is specifically designed for students and professionals with minimal or no prior computing experience or formal training in computer science. Information technology is revolutionizing our fast-paced, high-tech global society…changing the way we live, work, and do business; creating new fields, new industries, new careers unheard of ten—even five—years ago.
Program Overview | Department Website
The Master's Program in Computer and Information Technology (MCIT), a widely-hailed program, is specifically designed for students and professionals with minimal or no prior computing experience or formal training in computer science. Information technology is revolutionizing our fast-paced, high-tech global society…changing the way we live, work, and do business; creating new fields, new industries, new careers unheard of ten—even five—years ago.
Program Overview | Department Website
Electrical Engineering
Interconnections between electrical and systems engineering are creating a fresh vision of knowledge, its uses, and its users. This exciting synergy is evident in the recent merger of Penn’s electrical engineering and systems engineering departments. The Master's Program in Electrical Engineering gives you the theoretical foundation and the interdisciplinary skills needed to deal with the new ideas and new applications that are the hallmarks of 21st Century Electroscience.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Embedded Systems
The Master of Science in Engineering in Embedded Systems (EMBS) spans the core topics of embedded control, real-time operating systems, model-based design and verification, and implementation of embedded systems. This innovative and unique degree program is offered jointly by COmputer and Information Science and Electrical and Systems Engineering and is integrated with the PRECISE Center for Research in Embedded Systems (link). The program is ideally suited for students with either computer science or electrical engineering academic background who wish to pursue industrial jobs in automotive, aerospace, defense, and consumer electronics, as well as for practicing engineers in the embedded systems industry who want to gain knowledge in state-of-the-art tools and theories.
Program Overview & Department Website
Program Overview & Department Website
Executive Master's in Technology Management
The Executive Master’s in Technology Management (EMTM) Program is designed for candidates who operate at the intersection of technology and business—those who need to keep up with technology that is constantly changing and who want the business insights to translate technological innovation into commercial success.
Program Overview | Program Website
Program Overview | Program Website
Integrated Product Design
The University of Pennsylvania’s Integrated Product Design program provides the skills to rethink, reinterpret, redesign and reconstruct a wide range of products and their complementary business models. The program draws on the strengths of three internationally recognized schools within the University: the School of Engineering & Applied Science, The Wharton School, and the School of Design.
Program Overview | Program Website
Program Overview | Program Website
Materials Science and Engineering
The Master's Program in Materials Science and Engineering prepares students to be leaders, innovators, and visionaries in the materials revolution that is being driven by discoveries that cross the boundaries of physics, chemistry, and biology, such as in the growing field of nano-bioscience.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
The Master's in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM) is innovative, unique, and nationally recognized for its excellence. We are at the forefront in preparing students for leadership careers by providing opportunities to work in emerging and interdisciplinary areas that are fueling exciting advances in technology. The program can be tailored and customized to meet individual needs under the guidance and approval of an academic advisor.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Nanotechnology
The Master's degree in Nanotechnology prepares students for this profession with a solid foundation in the three technical core areas: Nanofabrication, Devices and Properties, and Biotechnology; as well as Commercialization, and Societal Impacts of Technology. Courses are offered by the School of Engineering and Applied Science, the School of Arts and Sciences, and the Wharton School.
Program Overview & Website
Program Overview & Website
Robotics
The Master's Program in Robotics is a unique program administered by Penn’s General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, recognized as one of the nation’s premier research centers. Multi-disciplinary in scope, the program provides an ideal foundation for what today’s experts in robotics and intelligent systems need to know — from artificial intelligence, computer vision, control systems, dynamics, and machine learning to design, programming and prototyping of robotic systems.
Program Overview | Program Website
Program Overview | Program Website
Systems Engineering
“Smart” buildings and highways. Environmental monitoring. Sensor networks. Hybrid systems. These are but a few of the many ways in which electrical and systems engineering are converging, especially at Penn. Proof of this exciting synergy is evident in the recent merger of our Electrical and Systems Engineering Departments. The MSE Program in Systems Engineering (SE), grounded in the intersection of electrical and systems engineering, is best positioned to give students the in-depth theoretical foundation and interdisciplinary skills required by the growing complexity of technological systems.
Program Overview | Department Website
Program Overview | Department Website
Telecommunications and Networking
The Telecommunications and Networking (TCOM) Program at Penn is unique, innovative, and best positioned to offer working professionals and students the in-depth theoretical foundation and interdisciplinary skills required by the growing complexity of the field. Our TCOM curriculum has two major advantages. One is the multidisciplinary approach of its faculty: scientist-engineers from Penn Engineering and business experts from the Wharton School. The other is flexibility in course selection and scheduling. TCOM gradutes are found in leadership positions in major companies such as Cisco and Microsoft or pursuing doctoral degrees in telecommunications and networking and related fields.
Program Overview | Program Website
Program Overview | Program Website
Dual Master's Degree Programs
Dual degrees offer master's students the opportunity for cross-disciplinary studies with an integrative and inclusive curricula, in collaboration with the Wharton School of Business.
Students must satisfy independent admission requirements of both the School of Engineering and The Wharton School of Business. This means that the appropriate standardized tests, such as the GRE, GMAT or MCAT, a completed application form and fee, transcript, and recommendations, must be sent to each school.
Generally, candidates should apply simultaneously to both components of the dual-degree program, since credits earned in the first degree prior to matriculation do not count toward the second degree. Students should contact the Wharton MBA Admissions Office and Penn Engineering Graduate Admissions Office for more information.