Admission Requirements to MS Aerospace Engineering, for Domestic Applicants

This information applies to both specializations within MS Aerospace Engineering.

Your Graduate Coordinator is Professor Jin Tso (Email: jtso@calpoly.edu). Please contact him with any additional questions about applying to this degree program.

The deadline for completing your application appears below. All parts of your application must have arrived at Cal Poly by the date shown. Note that you are strongly encouraged to submit your materials well before this nominal deadline. This is especially true for fall quarter applicants in order to avoid conflicts with summer vacations and where financial aid is involved.

Filing Due Dates for each Academic Quarter
To Start Your
Program in:
File Must be
Completed by:
Summer Applications not accepted
Fall July 1
Winter Nov. 1
Spring March 1

Your completed application must include the following:

  1. A formal application made through CSU Mentor (on-line or using a downloaded application form)
  2. Official transcripts from ALL colleges previously attended (except Cal Poly), mailed to: Cal Poly, Admissions Office, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

This program may also require the General Test of the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), sent directly to Cal Poly using institution code 4038. Contact the Graduate Coordinator for details.

The program does not require recommendation letters. However, if you wish, you may include these in your file by mailing to:

Graduate Coordinator
Aerospace Engineering Dept.
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

For additional details regarding graduate admission and requirements, download the Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program information.

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Jamie
Albin
Materials Engineering
2007
“I guess you could say my career path — working with alternative energy — is simply about saving the world!

Striving for an energy independent future has big political benefits and developing sources of sustainable energy has huge environmental benefits. Cal Poly's College of Engineering was the perfect place to study alternative energy development.